Walmart

Consumer goods companies can expect to gain valuable shopper insights from a new generation of consumer panel services created by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Information Resources Inc. (IRI) based on Wal-Mart's unique customer segments.

Wal-Mart partners with HP to build an enhanced business intelligence and data warehouse system.

A great deal of vision within the consumer goods industry comes from small to mid-size businesses (SMBs). The following profiles highlight select companies that are poised to breakout of the midmarket and reach that $1 billion mark.

To help erase the stress of back-to-school shopping, Wal-Mart and Crayola have enlisted the perfect back-to-school shopping consultants -- school teachers -- for the thousands of parents in need of help.

Wal-Mart endorses Knowledge Networks as the online panel research company to conduct custom studies using the retailer's proprietary Segmentation Lens.

Hansen's relocates energy drink distribution to accommodate growth

Blyth Inc. has sold certain assets associated with its North American mass channel home fragrance business, Blyth HomeScents International - North America (BHI), to MVP Inc., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of private-label candles and home fragrance products to mass retailers.

SoftSheen-Carson, A Division of L'Oral, drives analytic practices through the company