Supply Chain

These changes include the appointment of Bob Munroe to general manager of Crocs Americas region; Greg Sullivan to the new role of senior vice president of global business transformation; Scott Yuan to general manager of Greater China; and Michelle Poole to senior vice president of global product creation and merchandising.

Bocchi Labs' expansion will include the launch of a new manufacturing facility in Ohio to open mid-next year, as well as the introduction of additional products lines.

CPG companies pursuing digital strategies to improve or increase their top-line or bottom-line are finding that product (or raw materials) information management and the distribution / sharing of the information is crucial to the success of their strategy.

Couldn't make it to CGTs inaugural Consumer Goods Emerging Markets Forum this year? No problem! Executive Editor Kara Romanow put together a short list of key best practices that are imperative to succeeding in the BRICS and far beyond.

Daily downstream data, social listening, sentiment analysis, crowdsourced local intelligence, website traffic, hyper-local digital advertising it's all coming together to paint a picture of the individual consumer. Thus, consumer goods executives have a new mantra: "Thou shalt collect, analyze and act on a confluence of data."

Land O'Lakes announces it is working with Nestle to provide feed and forage training, nutrition services and laboratory services at Nestle Dairy Farming Institute in China.

Network-based supplier system will synchronize product catalogs, enable electronic invoicing and facilitate a fully automated purchasing cycle.

Categories are not established by consumers but by retailers as a result of how they lay out their stores. That begs the question: How can you reconcile the differences between consumer-centric and store-related categories?