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For the first time ever, Walmart opened its doors to more than 500 manufacturers at its world headquarters during the companys first-ever Made in the USA open call.

While Walmart once again takes the top spot, Amazons rise into a top 10 list from STORES Media is being noted as a symbolic of a shift in U.S. retail toward a genuinely multichannel future. Find out who else made the list, indicating noticeable changes taking place in the retail landscape.

Fans have a chance to be part of the next chapter of Twinkies history and be featured in the new comeback edition of The Twinkies Cookbook.

Inspired by Pivots upcoming docu-series, Human Resources, featuring TerraCycle, Recycle Right! aims todistribute 1 million standardized recycling labels in United States by the years end.

Within 24 hours of identifying its one-millionth Facebook fan, mike's hard lemonade created a new logo and packaging, updated its website, Facebook and Twitter properties to reflect the new name.

Presented at the 2014 Consumer Goods Sales & Marketing Summit, the first annual award honors the unique and powerful role of today's marketing leaders in the increasingly competitive consumer goods industry.

The first half of 2014 flew by, yet so much has changed. CGT stops time for a moment to recap the most-read news and trend stories on consumergoods.com from January through June. What does this short list tell us? Consumer trends, industry predictions and big data, of course, are the top-of-mind topics among our readers. And, it seems as though everyone is trying to figure out the next big thing.

To maximize reach and engagement, the brand will optimize digital advertising in Facebook and Twitter by allocating dollars in real time to tweets and posts that perform the best.