Blog16 Oct 2023Sustainable 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...
Publication01 Jun 2012
Driving Consumer Goods Innovation in the Cloud
Blog06 Jul 2020E2E 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....
Blog05 Aug 2021E2E 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,...
Blog12 Aug 2020Product 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...
Press Release14 Jun 2019Global 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...
Press Release23 Jun 2019Global 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...
Podcast26 Oct 2020E2E 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...
Blog30 Oct 2023Sustainable 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...
Blog26 Aug 2019E2E 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...
Press Release19 Oct 2023Sustainable 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...
Blog08 Nov 2018E2E 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...
Blog18 Mar 2021E2E Value Chain
Avoid Missed Sales Opportunities: Keeping Production Pipelines Fresh Calavo Growers had long used spreadsheets to track opportunities with customers. With the move to remote working came a greater need for visibility and accountability to ensure smooth operations and better customer experience. ...
Blog30 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...
Press Release07 Nov 2013
Highlights from Global Marketing, IT & Supply Chain Conference Day 1 LONDON, 7th November 2013 – The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) global marketing, IT and supply chain conference kicked off yesterday following Wednesday’s store tour programme. Combining shared plenary sessions and individual streams for marketing,...