Manufacturing

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.

The global paint and coatings company uses Terra Technologys solution to reduce forecast error by an additional 25 percent.

The independent arbitrator in the dispute between Kraft Foods and Starbucks Coffee Company ruled that Starbucks must pay more than $2.7 billion in total cash compensation for its unilateral termination of the companies' coffee contract.

A new social media engagement program scans photos and visuals from public Instagrammer posts and verifies imagery of branded content, recognizing not only keyword and hashtag use but also photo use.

Application Support and Maintenance (ASM) is quickly becoming an IT agenda, but probably not for the right reasons.