Category Management

General Mills will leverage DemandTec solutions and services to shape pricing and promotion strategies.

With the global workforce and workplace changing, what is needed to ensure the future readiness of an IS/IT organization to enable business success going forward? At the CGT Fall Conference, E. Jeffrey Hutchinson, chief information officer - The Dannon Company, North America CIO - Groupe Danone, will explain Groupe Danone's North America's IS/IT's approach to tackling this challenge in an opening keynote presentation, titled "Focus on the Future: Driving productivity and growth through emerging technologies."

June 13, 2008 - The 2008 Consumer Goods Sales and Marketing Summit came to a close Wednesday afternoon, leaving the more than 220 consumer goods executives in attendance with a little more insight into the ever-changing and complex sales and marketing landscape.

DemandTec makes a number of announcements this week, including the launch of a collaborative online platform for retailers and consumer products companies, on-demand access to accurate trade fund balances and a collaboration with Interactive Edge to offer time-saving presentation tool to consumer products firms.

J.M. Smucker Company President and Co-CEO Richard Smucker believes that coffee is the most perfect complement to breakfast and dessert -- two areas that his company knows a lot about. So why not add an iconic brand that has 150 years of history? The equation seems to add up to a perfect fit. Read on to find out how much the merger between Procter & Gamble's Folgers business and Smucker is expected to earn by fiscal year 2009.

To manage its downstream data, KKM selects the Vendor Managed Technologies Inc. to provide a core retail reporting solution.

American of Martinsville will implement Microsoft technology to eliminate manual systems and manage products from concept to delivery.

P&G announces organizational changes in various departments.