Manufacturing

Newell Rubbermaid executives Steve Sigrist and Tracey Grimshaw offer advice to CGT readers who are looking to replicate the success they achieved with an S&OP improvement project.

Two new Aberdeen reports prove that personalization of the in-store customer experience will be a key objective for retailers over the next two years. Here are the customer satisfaction strategies you can expect from your retail customers in 2011.

This new business model combines P&G's strong brand-building, consumer-led innovation and go-to-market capabilities with Teva's broad geographic reach.

Unilever enters a binding agreement to sell the global Sanex business to Colgate-Palmolive for 672 million euros while adding the Fab, Lavomatic and Vel brands to its portfolio in Colombia.

The last two decades could aptly be described as the Wal-Mart era in retailing. In 1990, its revenue was $32 billion. In 2010 it ballooned to $405 billion. Today, however, cracks are appearing in the empire Sam Walton built.

The JBS USA Beef sales organization will use SignalDemand to respond quickly to changing market conditions and identify win-win opportunities for its customers.

Fast Company released its annual list of the The Worlds 50 Most Innovative Companies for 2011 earlier this month. Not surprisingly, Apple, Inc. was crowned No. 1 followed by social networking stars Facebook and Twitter. While only three consumer goods companies made the Top 50, another 20 were named as market leaders in the consumer product and food industries.