Lisa Johnston

Procter & Gamble is scaling its ability to run fully automated factory shifts that remove human supervision.

As pressure increases to develop holistic, full-funnel retail media strategies, many brands still have a hard time identifying top use cases for data.

Once considered a mature discipline, category management is now undergoing an evolution.

At FMI Midwinter last month, Liz Buchanan, NIQ president of North America, talked through some of the consumer intelligence company's priorities heading into 2026.

Lowe’s is increasingly bullish on its Marketplace e-commerce platform as a major growth engine, while expanding investments in video and visualization have the potential to bring those digital gains into the store.

Pre-seeding social media influencers with early products is seen as key to DTC growth.

Mars is expanding its centralized artificial intelligence platform after recording positive employee engagement and retainment rates.

Consumers have enough to worry about; the last thing they want to deal with is a bad experience.Â

LâOreal CEO Nicolas Hieronimus highlighted the challenges CPGs continue to face with anti-theft devices in retail stores.

While it can be tempting to seize a trend for all its worth, CPG brands would be wise to take a more nuanced approach when it comes to GLP-1 medications.