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Mobile commerce will grow exponentially during the 2013 holiday season with consumers buying at home and in store via their phone. In fact, mobility will drive e-commerce sales gains of between 13 percent and 15 percent. Today's sales and marketing strategies, therefore, need to acknowledge the mobile device not as a "channel" but rather as gateway to multiple channels.

CGT partners with AFS Technologies to look at trends in TPM adoption and drivers, and it seems we may have finally turned the corner as TPM systems are being utilized by companies of all sizes, while the number of failed projects continues to decrease.

United and energized by social media sharing, more than 1,200 Newell Rubbermaid employee volunteers participated in its first-ever global philanthropic partnership with Habitat for Humanity International.

Mobility is still new enough to create a lot of confusion around capabilities, with some claiming it is easy to develop enterprise-level applications that seamlessly run on all platforms and devices while integrating with back-office data. Others will tell you that ROI is difficult to attain. Let our experts help you wade through the hype and understand the true potential of mobile technology.

Despite the e-commerce boom, brick-and-mortar stores should still account for approximately 85 percent of U.S. retail sales in 2025. But that doesn't mean your company should stand still. Here, McKinsey & Company identifies five trends will most impact on the industry, from demographic changes to emerging retail business models.

In order to address allergen management concerns, Kraft Foods Canada scans each label after it has been attached on the packaging line to ensure that it matches the package contents. But the laser scanner type ID readers used in the past to inspect the company' barbeque sauce products were subject to read failures. Find out how Kraft solved the problem by switching to image-based DataMan 300 ID readers.

A spin-off would create a stand-alone, publicly traded health care company with approximately $1.6 billion in annual net sales and leading market positions in both surgical and infection prevention products and medical devices.

The new CEO joins the company as part of its recent acquisition of The Colomer Group, and comes from prior roles at Reckitt Benckiser, J&J and P&G.