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GMA/FPA Forum
Mid-Fall Edition 2007
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FEATURED ARTICLES
Innovation: Five CPG Strategies for R&D
Top CPG executive consistently cite innovation as fundamental to growth. Today, innovative companies are redefining the research and development functions by extending it beyond organizational boundaries and striving for greater standardization and alignment with the overall organization.
Building a Food Industry Team; How to Tell Players from Fans & Why it Matters to Your Success
In Organizations, 'Fans' attend meetings, make sales calls, prepare reports and even claim titles, but they are nothing more than imposters - fans masquerading as players. Imagine fans coming out of the stands and infiltrating a pro football game. In similar fashion, CPG and retail 'fans' can hurt you. Here's why and how to identify them.
Time for CEOs in CPG and Retailing to Help Turn the Numbers Tide?
Are you, too, awash in a sea of numbers, tired of the tyranny of the quarterly report? Why not consider creating a radical new kind of corporation? So suggests Dan J. Sanders, CEO of United Supermarkets, whose new book "Built to Serve: How to Drive the Bottom Line with People-First Practices," has reached the financial best-seller list.
Global Outsourcing Opportunities in CPG: The Next Generation
CPG Companies face a unique set of issues. To flourish, they must build a sustainable capability to drive growth and transform themselves into agile, efficient, market-focused entities. Global sourcing is a significant untapped lever for generating value in ways that. Increasingly, transcend the obvious cost reduction rationale.
GMA Study: Outsourcing Sales & Marketing Efficiencies Driving Higher CPG Usage Rate
In the field, sales agencies are the 'Swiss Army Knife' of CPG. Their expanding role as the "go to: implementation guys and gals, the CPG company's connection from the top of the customer organization to the floor go the store, is driving a usage growth rate of 10-15 percent in 2007 alone, and by 2010 will represent a full$213 billion of CPG industry sales.
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