Consumer Packaged Goods

For Amazon, Can Two Headquarters Still Equal One Culture?

September 22, 2017

In planning Amazon.com Inc.'s second headquarters, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos faces a new challenge: how to maintain the online retail giant's carefully cultivated culture when he can’t be in two places at once.

Where Corn Pollutes America Most, and Who's Responsible

September 21, 2017

Bloomberg

Companies want to know the environmental impact of their supply chains. Researchers used a crucial commodity to show them.

U.K. and China to Collaborate on Offshore Wind Development

September 21, 2017

Maritime Executive

Researchers from the University of Exeter in the U.K. will collaborate with counterparts in China on the development of offshore renewable energy technologies.

Plants Get Reprieve: EPA Adds Two Years to Reduce Toxic Metals in Wastewater

September 20, 2017

Environmental Leader

The EPA has finalized a rule postponing the dates for certain rules that would limit runoff from two waste streams at power plants: bottom ash transport water and flue gas desulfurization. Compliance dates for the rules, which were issued in Nov. 2015, have been pushed back by two years, the EPA says.

Apple Wants Its Stores to Become 'Town Squares.' Skeptics Call It a 'Branding Fantasy.'

September 20, 2017

The Washington Post

Goodbye, Apple store. From now on, the company says, its stores are "town squares."

Target Is Hiring 40-Percent More Holiday-Season Workers Than Last Year

September 20, 2017

Los Angeles Times

Target plans to hire 100,000 people to work during the hectic holiday shopping season, up 40 percent from last year.

Opinion: Why Do Big Hacks Happen? Blame Big Data

September 19, 2017

Jathan Sadowski, technology ethics lecturer, The Guardian contributor

Equifax, one of the largest credit reporting agencies, revealed this month that it was hacked back in May, exposing the personal data of up to 143 million people. The data accessed by hackers contains extremely sensitive information like social security numbers, birth data, consumer's names, driver's license numbers and credit card numbers.

Nordstrom Is Opening a Store That Will Serve Beer But Won't Stock Clothes

September 19, 2017

Fortune

Nordstrom is trying a smaller store on for size.

U.K. Firms Have Slavery 'Blind Spot,' Research Shows

September 19, 2017

Supply Management

U.K. firms are focusing anti-slavery efforts on foreign supply chains and overlooking forced labour at home, according to research.

Home-Improvement Retailers Scrambled to Restock in Florida

September 18, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

Home Depot Inc., Lowe's Co. and other home-improvement retailers are rushing supplies into Florida in Irma's wake, an effort critical to rebuilding efforts as well as their quarterly sales.

Consumer Packaged Goods

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the consumer packaged goods industry. Learn how consumer packaged goods companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.