Consumer Affairs & Relations

Lawrence Kurzius will also have the responsibility for several of the company's corporate functions, including IT, Supply Chain, R&D and Quality Assurance.

The combined company is expected to have greater access to the large and growing Chinese market and retain world-leading food safety and quality control standards.

CGT presents the new class of Visionaries 11 consumer goods leaders who are shaping the future of their companies with unprecedented business and technology initiatives. Ranging from senior executives at major firms to pioneers at innovative mid-market companies, the 2013 Visionaries share inside details on how they are collaboratively bringing big picture ideas to life.

Lafley succeeds Robert A. Bob McDonald, who is retiring from the company on June 30, 2013, after 33 years of service.

P. Kasper Jakobsen succeeds Stephen W. Golsby, who had previously announced his retirement.

In response on May 21, 2013, CAO Group, Inc. refuted lawsuit claims by P&G and affirmed that the advanced technology applied to its treatment film products is its own intellectual property.

There is a paradigm shift happening today among CIOs in the consumer goods industry. The role is in a state of transition from just keeping the lights on to powering business opportunities. Here, Dr Pepper Snapple Groups CIO explains how he challenged the status quo to drive rapid continuous improvements across the business.

TreeHouse Foods promotes a new EVP of TreeHouse Foods and President of Bay Valley Foods, and appoints a newly created role of EVP, Acquisitions Integrations for TreeHouse Foods.