Supply Chain

Whirlpool Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire American Dryer Corporation, a privately held company that manufactures and markets coin-operated industrial and specialty laundry equipment.

Consumer goods need to be represented consistently, in potentially thousands of different places online. A new GS1 US standard, developed in collaboration with 18 companies, including Best Buy, Bing, CNET, eBay, Google, and Walmart, offers a common approach for listing and classifying products across all e-commerce platforms.

Utz selects LeanLogistics LeanTMS for its transportation management and is focusing its efforts oneliminating manual transportation processes.

Mars Chocolate North America expands its product portfolio to include several new snacks and to-go bottles for M&M'S.

Procter & Gamble (P&G) is rumored to announce a massive buying and planning review across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. This comes on the brink of a wave of CPG giants like Coca-Cola, Unilever and L'Oreal, that are already rethinking the way they spend their media dollars. For P&G, it will be the first time in nearly two decades that it has reviewed its U.S. buying account.

Consumers today have unprecedented access to information creating an intensifying power shift. It is imperative for consumer products companies to stay ahead of the connected world by taking full advantage of going direct.

The Pretzel Crisps brand (from Snyder's-Lance) explains how it redesigned its website to deliver on a more engaging user experience.

Retailers like Whole Foods and Wal-Mart are even joining for a piece of the grocery delivery service category. So, CGT sat down with Richard Demb, CEO and Founder of Abe's Market (named by Forbes as one of The 25 Most Innovative Consumer and Retail Brands) to discuss the growing online grocery shopping trend, and how to differentiate from the competition.