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Accelerating Sustainability with Cloud AI Blog 16 Oct 2023 Sustainable Retail Summit Accelerating Sustainability with Cloud AI   Today, sustainability is increasingly at the top of corporate agendas across the world. That means lowering carbon emissions, meeting regulatory requirements, creating a more transparent supply chain, and enacting better corporate citizenship.    Accelerating...
CGF Word Cloud Infographic Infographic 28 Feb 2016 CGF Word Cloud Infographic
Driving Consumer Goods Innovation in the Cloud Publication 01 Jun 2012 Driving Consumer Goods Innovation in the Cloud
Part 2: If Necessity is the Mother of Innovation, Pandemics are the Father of Transformation Blog 06 Jul 2020 E2E Value Chain Part 2: If Necessity is the Mother of Innovation, Pandemics are the Father of Transformation From surviving to thriving, an opportunity to transform with the new normal   As companies have largely stabilized operations, regardless of whether they have had the good fortune of being considered essential by consumers (e.g....
One Product Identity, Many Tagging Technologies – Here’s Why… Blog 05 Aug 2021 E2E Value Chain One Product Identity, Many Tagging Technologies – Here’s Why… Today, consumers expect end-to-end traceability, authenticity and engaging experiences from consumer product brands — from packaged goods to apparel items to pharmaceuticals. How do consumer brands deliver on these expectations? Not only deliver on expectations,...
Overcoming the Barriers to Supply Chain Transparency in Soy Blog 12 Aug 2020 Product Data Overcoming the Barriers to Supply Chain Transparency in Soy Soy is one of the world’s most important crops, finding its way into animal feed, vegetable oil, even industrial chemicals. It is one of the most intensively grown: worldwide 1 in 10 acres of agricultural...
The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit Day Two: Innovation and Technology Focus Press Release 14 Jun 2019 Global Summit The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit Day Two: Innovation and Technology Focus VANCOUVER, 13th June 2019 — With a packed agenda, we look at the key messages from the second day of The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit in Vancouver, Canada. Innovation and the role of new...
Making Strides with our Partners Towards Deforestation-free Supply Chains Blog 11 Dec 2023 Sustainable Retail Summit Making Strides with our Partners Towards Deforestation-free Supply Chains Every year, the world loses around 10 million hectares of forest, while deforestation alone accounts for 11% of greenhouse gas emissions. Europe is leading the way in deforestation legislation with their European Union Deforestation Regulation...
Supply Chain Transparency, Reimagined Podcast 26 Oct 2020 E2E Value Chain Supply Chain Transparency, Reimagined In this episode, CGF’s Ruediger Hagedorn speaks to Trinanjan Gupta at TagOne,  a blockchain empowered tech traceability platform, about the challenges in supply chain transparency and the role blockchain and cloud tech play in capturing and sharing data...
The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit Urges Industry to Lean Into Unprecedented Change Press Release 23 Jun 2019 Global Summit The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit Urges Industry to Lean Into Unprecedented Change PARIS, 23rd June 2019 – Digital transformation and sustainability are the key challenges facing the consumer goods industry, according to attendees of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) Global Summit. Held in Vancouver, Canada, the organisation’s flagship event...
How Environmental Data Empowers Product Personalization Blog 30 Oct 2023 Sustainable Retail Summit How Environmental Data Empowers Product Personalization   Environmental data, like real-time air quality and pollen insights, is a powerful tool that can be used in product personalization innovations. For retailers across diverse sectors, personalization has become a new frontier in consumer...
Digital Transformation’s Impact on Physical Retailers: Top Strategies to Prepare for the Future Blog 26 Aug 2019 E2E Value Chain Digital Transformation’s Impact on Physical Retailers: Top Strategies to Prepare for the Future In recent years, consumer expectations have been transforming rapidly due to advancing technologies. Over the last 20 years and since the beginning of the Internet, new technologies also have emerged to deliver new types of...
Sustainable Retail Summit 2023 – Day 2 Highlights Press Release 19 Oct 2023 Sustainable Retail Summit Sustainable Retail Summit 2023 – Day 2 Highlights COPENHAGEN, 19th October 2023:  We kicked off an exciting start to our first full day of sessions with a warm welcome to the room of over 250 industry changemakers from moderator Isabelle Kumar, alongside Wai-Chan...
SGS, Transparency-One And Mars Food Launch Revolutionary Supply Chain Solution Blog 08 Nov 2018 E2E Value Chain SGS, Transparency-One And Mars Food Launch Revolutionary Supply Chain Solution Our increasingly connected world has given rise to larger and more complex supply chains and socially conscious consumers who want to know that the products they buy are produced responsibly.  Mars Food has launched a...
Machine Learning for the Optimisation of Business Processes Blog 19 May 2022 E2E Value Chain Machine Learning for the Optimisation of Business Processes Artificial Intelligence in the form of machine learning is already being used reliably in many applications today. Current application areas of machine learning (ML) are the optimisation of business processes and the automation of redundant...
METRO & Traceability – Making Waves for Sustainability Blog 30 Oct 2014 METRO & Traceability – Making Waves for Sustainability   Our industry is facing a number of challenges in this area, but a collaborative solution may not be far away.   METRO GROUP, a member of The Consumer Goods Forum and leading international wholesaler...