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Gartner Analyst Nigel Montgomery describes what CPG companies need when making decisions about managing data, meeting needs influenced by social media and evaluating ERP systems.

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When you're attending "Retail's BIG Show", it seems like everyone is there and this year's record attendance of 27,000 means there was indeed quite a crowd. If you missed the event, don't fret. RIS News compiled a recap of the most important takeaways, covering omnichannel transformations and smarter commerce to applications for Big Data and more.

New this year, CGT's readers rank the top five technology companies that provide software/services for managing and monitoring internal and external social media communications/engagement.

CGT's readers rank the top 10 technology companies that provide a solution for trade promotion effectiveness, including trade promotion management (TPM), price management, trade promotion optimization (TPO), etc.

Gartner is witness to many on-going supply chain transformations within the consumer products industry. Here are some common characteristics of supply chain leaders. Plus, Steutermann reveals four important thoughts for the coming year.

Unilever, LOreal, Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly-Clark all beat analyst expectations for sales growth last quarter, with three of the four saying they stepped up marketing spending. Find out more about the results, including what it means for The Procter & Gamble Company.

Gartners Supply Chain Top 25 list for 2012 includes eight pure play consumer goods companies. Some are perennial leaders, like P&G. Others climbed the ranks with impressive supply chain transformations. Unilever, for example, broke into the top 10 this year, and Kimberly-Clark made its debut at No. 25.

The Top 8 providers of a software solution for trade promotion effectiveness, including traditional TPM, promotion analytics, price management, trade promotion optimization, etc.