Last week, CGT published a report that names retailers' 10 favorite suppliers. This week, we're turning the tables to bring you a list of the the Top 10 power retailers, ranked by their manufacturing partners. Walmart still reigns, but the gap is narrowing, showing how significantly retailing is changing.
The importance of transformational business and technology initiatives cannot be underestimated in the consumer goods industry. That's why CGT is once again recognizing three consumer goods companies for excellence in supply chain, customer management and mid-market growth strategies.
Retailers again ranked P&G Best of the Best although Unilever made up significant ground on its major rival across a number of individual measures and made the biggest gains. Find out which other suppliers are finding favor with America's top retailers.
By increasing the pace of its transformation, the company intends to more quickly realize its Growth Game Plan ambition of becoming a bigger, faster-growing, more-global, more-profitable Newell Rubbermaid.
Since the companys Open Innovation team was founded in 2009, the number of research projects which involve external collaboration has increased from 25 percent to around 60 percent.
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.
