Consumer Attitudes & Behavior

Kimberly-Clark opens research facilities in Colombia and Korea, to focus on delivering essentials for a better life.

The majority of households report worsened finances and anticipate a rising unemployment rate during the year ahead. The sinking economy has made consumers more defensive, favoring spending cutbacks rather using savings or debt.

An overwhelming majority of Walmart shoppers no longer believe that it has the lowest prices. While the world's largest retailer is certainly not going to disappear, it seems to no longer dominate the U.S. retail landscape. Should consumer product companies re-evaluate the way they do business with Walmart?

2010 marked the third consecutive year that chief executives of the 500 biggest companies in the United States took a reduction in total compensation. By comparison, this year's Forbes.com list of The Worlds Billionaires broke records in size (1,210 billionaires) and total net worth ($4.5 trillion). Find out which food and beverage billionaires topped this list.

Post Foods improves consumers experiences in the cereal aisle by utilizing technology from Affinnova.

As shoppers economic concerns eased somewhat in the wake of the recession, some industry observers predicted that store brands would give up their recent gains as the economy rebounded. To the contrary, store brand sales reaching $88.5 billion overall, an all-time high.

The Hain Celestial Group announces its continued commitment to a Back-to-Basics Approach to Product Labeling and for all consumer packaged goods companies to adopt truth-in-labeling standards.

What do Facebook, LinkedIn, Groupon and Twitter all have in common? They are part of the growing social network phenomena that is permanently changing the way the world communicates...