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Companies behind some of the best-known consumer products — from soaps to sodas — are beginning to factor climate change into their business equation, according to a report published on Monday. The survey of 16 major corporations by non-profit group CDP found that many are working to lower their carbon emissions, prepare for the effects of global warming on their supply chain and respond to growing environmental consciousness among customers.youtube.com Examples include brewer AB InBev's efforts to develop a variety of barley that needs less water and Unilever adjusting its detergent formulas so they work at the lower "eco" temperature settings on modern washing machines, the London-based group said. Carole Ferguson, the report's lead author.


This includes chasing trends such as veganism, a small but growing factor in the market that's driven by people who shun animal products for ethical or health reasons, but also because they have larger carbon footprints. PepsiCo's recent acquisition of Health Warrior, a maker of plant-based nutrition bars, is a typical example where a large company has snapped up a small brand to fill a niche it didn't yet cover.youtube.com Such purchases help companies bolster their green credentials at a time when they're beginning to feel the heat of climate activism. Consumer goods account for about a third of greenhouse gas emissions, meaning companies that make them play a key role in efforts to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.


CRA professionals provide economic, accounting, financial, competitive, and strategic analyses for manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers of consumer products and services. Our economic expertise and deep factual understanding of consumer markets allow us to apply state-of-the-art analysis to such issues as mergers and antitrust, brand valuation, breach-of contract, and infringement of patents, copyrights, and trademarks. This includes the analysis of many different types of manufacturing, distribution, and retail markets, including department stores, mass merchandisers, drug stores, supermarkets, and many others. CRA professionals provide clients with economic analyses of competitive issues in the context of mergers and acquisitions in retail markets. Such issues include product and geographic market definition, entry conditions, and synergies resulting from retail consolidation, measuring and evaluating concentration, analyzing entry conditions, and assessing potential merger-related efficiencies.


CRA’s experts and senior consultants have been retained by private parties and government agencies to provide economic reports, and deposition and trial testimony in many antitrust matters involving retail markets. We have provided expert testimony in litigation and presented to federal and state antitrust enforcement agencies on behalf of many of the largest food and drug retailers. Our economists have long applied leading-edge empirical econometric techniques and economic theory to competitive issues in retail markets in the context of merger analyses and antitrust litigation. Access to senior consultants and staff economists with extensive testifying experience in a broad range of retailing industries and to economists who have held senior executive and managerial positions at the DOJ and FTC.


Trademarks and brand names are often critically important assets in consumer markets. CRA professionals assist manufacturers, distributors, and retailers in understanding the economic, financial, and strategic aspects of trademarks, brands, and related assets. Companies retain CRA to provide reliable valuations of brands for transactions such as licensing, co-branding, and acquisitions. In addition, law firms retain CRA for expert testimony and analysis in trademark, false advertising, and unfair competition litigation. With our ability to prepare, communicate, and defend well-supported positions based on comprehensive analysis, CRA provides its clients with the depth and breadth of skills that the trademark and Lanham Act litigation environment demands.


If you think ethics are over regulated describe a specific law or regulation that you would repeal or weaken. If you think ethics are not regulated enough, describe a new law or regulation that you would write or how you would strengthen one of the existing laws or regulations. In either case, be specific about the changes you would make and explain how your proposals would result in a better balance. Law or regulation covered in course material include Sherman Antitrust Act, Clayton Act, Robinson-Patman Act, Lanham Act, Consumer Goods Pricing Act, FTC Act, Trademark Counterfeiting Act, Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act.


Facing a stagnant market, retailers of consumer staples have turned to aggressive discounts to drive growth. According to the Wall Street Journal, more than 50% of consumers’ purchases include markdowns! Businesses in non-growth or declining growth markets understandably must find new ways to capture market share. However, offering more discounts is not a long-term strategy. If consumer demand is shifting, no matter how many attractive discounts you offer you’ll never be able to increase your market share or grow revenues in the long-term. Discounts do not grow revenue or spark confidence in the market. Despite a decline within some sectors in the consumer products industry, there are pockets of growth, especially in organic and fresh foods. Now more than ever we’re seeing that you can’t make blanket statements about a specific industry. So, while cereal or soda companies may be struggling to grow, makers of fresh juices or organic snacks may be thriving. Really, one must dig deeper to full understand the industry dynamics and the best path forward for your business. Hopefully, retailers will move away from discounts and instead focus on sustainable ways to grow revenue, like expanding products and capabilities or moving to new geographic markets.


Successfully launching new products gets tougher every year. In the past decade, the number of new consumer products hitting the shelves has skyrocketed by 59%, making it much more difficult for new products to win consumer attention. If you've built a better mousetrap and plan to introduce it into this tidalwave of new products, it is more critical than ever to carefully plan and execute your launch using a strategic approach. Here are seven classic mistakes companies make when developing new product launch campaigns. Sadly, this happens all too often. Companies spend months—even years—developing a new product only to think about creating the launch plan as the product is rolling off the assembly line. In a market where over 33,000 new consumer products goods were launched last year, you need a truly outstanding launch strategy to entice consumers to buy your new product. That's not something you can create overnight, so start your launch campaign planning early. If possible, begin launch planning when the product gets the "go" sign from management. That way, you'll have the same amount of time to plan and execute your launch as your production team has to manufacture the product.


Osborn Williams & Donohoe LLC lifted its holdings in shares of iShares US Consumer Goods ETF (NYSEARCA:IYK) by 5.3% in the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 8,800 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 445 shares during the period. 1,062,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of IYK. Ironwood Financial llc raised its holdings in iShares US Consumer Goods ETF by 135.0% during the fourth quarter. 25,000 after purchasing an additional 135 shares in the last quarter.


Carroll Financial Associates Inc. raised its holdings in iShares US Consumer Goods ETF by 217.4% during the fourth quarter. 59,000 after purchasing an additional 374 shares in the last quarter. 81,000. Finally, Valeo Financial Advisors LLC raised its holdings in iShares US Consumer Goods ETF by 50.8% during the fourth quarter. 108,000 after purchasing an additional 342 shares in the last quarter. TRADEMARK VIOLATION NOTICE: This article was first posted by Finance Daily and is the property of of Finance Daily. If you are reading this article on another publication, it was copied illegally and reposted in violation of US and international copyright laws. Shares U.S. Consumer Goods ETF (the Fund), formerly iShares Dow Jones U.S .Consumer Goods Sector Index Fund, is an exchange-traded fund (ETF). The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of United States consumer goods stocks, as represented by the Dow Jones United States Consumer Goods Index. See Also: How is a buy-side analyst different from a sell-side analyst? Want to see what other hedge funds are holding IYK?


In basketball, the unpredictable precision of a killer crossover move can change the momentum of even the most competitive matchups. This is the moment when the player obscures where the ball will go next by rapidly yo-yoing it back and forth from hand to hand. The defender must rely on guesswork and gut instinct to counter this suspenseful, hypnotic strategy - only to end up moving in the wrong direction and leaving the shooter with a clear path to the basket. Nothing beats a game-shifting move that stuns the competition and pushes their limits - including in the consumer products industry.


Adidas is turning around personalized fashion quickly with a digital factory business model. Amazon is making next-generation artificial intelligence an everyday home appliance with its line of Alexa and Echo digital assistants. Even Lego is turning an 86-year-old building toy into an opportunity to teach coding skills to young children. How do these consumer products companies stay on top? They consistently innovate consumer experiences that are not only engaging and unified across all sales, marketing, and commerce channels, but also responsive to consumers’ desire for outcomes. There are many different ways to tackle the ever-evolving consumer products market with crossover strategies. Some businesses are developing direct-to-consumer channels to build deep, enduring buyer relationships and stave off startups as well as larger, established brands.


Others are balancing traditional go-to-market plays with a strategic set of e-commerce partners. And a number of innovators are cultivating entirely new business models that address the consumer desires and goals of the moment. But no matter how they tackle this ever-evolving game, consumer products businesses must incorporate newer, bolder, and game-winning crossover strategies that cover three critical priorities for market dominance. Product delivery excellence is no longer the single winning strategy among winning consumer products brands. Companies must now sense opportunities in real time, including the possibility of crossing over or partnering with new market categories, personalizing buyer interactions, and serving segments of one.


As industry and category boundaries continue to blur across online and brick-and-mortar channels, the battle for controlling the point of sale, shaping favorable consumer trends, and launching private labels is all wrapped around the intelligent use of data. Intelligent technologies such as augmented reality and machine learning are helping brands adapt and engage consumers with greater confidence, agility, and speed. But it’s not engagement in a transactional sense; deeper consumer relationships help spawn innovation that can help set off a massive disruption across the entire marketplace. To perform well in an evolving marketplace, consumer product companies need to engage, inform, and convince consumers by providing the right solution and promised outcomes that meet their needs. Proliferating channels and seemingly unlimited access to information provide consumers with innumerable new opportunities to engage with brands over the course of a given day.


However, the high rate of cart abandonment, brand switching, and frustration with generic shopping experiences are signs that there is still much work to be done. Companies that understand how to deliver personalized outcomes with intelligent technology are the ones that are differentiating themselves with a combination of products, consumer experience, and continuous engagement. The pressure to accelerate business growth is so intense that traditional strategies - such as significant cost reduction, manufacturing excellence, and zero-based budgeting programs - are beginning to show signs of diminishing returns. Earning consumer attention now requires the capacity to serve people and organizations with relevance that is clear and timely.


Consumer products companies need to rapidly transform with speed and agility across all channels and execute consistent outcomes in all interactions by understanding market demand and purchasing behaviors with data-driven clarity and insight. Any moment a player can break away from the competition is an opportunity for delivering a product, service, or shopping experience that no one else can match. However, the relevance of these consumer products companies is only as strong as their ability to pivot to meet consumer demand and seize emerging opportunities and risks. They must quickly adapt, innovate, and differentiate their brands to keep their options open while disguising future intent and exposing the weaknesses of their opponents.


Fortune managed to create the best of both worlds by finalizing a coast-to-coast solution for client brands and retail customers while maintaining the intimate, boutique service model that built its brand.prnewswire.com Now able to scale and serve the entire United States, C.A. Fortune is looking ahead. The privately held sales and marketing agency based in Chicago, is launching 2018 by joining forces with BUILD, a national consumer products brand incubator, based in Minneapolis. With an eye toward growth, Tyler Lowell, Managing Partner of C.A. The transaction is slated to close Feb. 1, 2018, BUILD will continue to operate independently, wholly owned by C.A. Founded in 1983, C.A. Fortune is a leading full-service national consumer products sales and marketing agency, specializing in the lifestyle/better-for-you sector. With more than 365 employees nationwide, the company offers clients a turn-key solution — from brand incubation, client development, sales management, marketing and insights, retail services and more. The company, headquartered in Chicago, has regional offices in Cincinnati, New York City metro, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver and Portland, OR.


Multi-channel consumers, an increasing desire and ability to shop around for the best deals, the impact of online reviews and recommendations… These are just some of the challenges facing the FMCG industry. In order to spot opportunities and stay ahead of competitors, consumer goods businesses need both a ‘full picture’ view of market trends and granular understanding of consumer demand and purchasing behavior. We provide timely, relevant data and insight on consumer trends and the factors impacting FMCG purchases and purchasing behavior. Three things make us stand out in this: our innovative research methodologies, our ability to combine multiple datasets (including our renowned Point of Sales tracking) and the sharp analysis provided by our FMCG industry experts. With these, we help you identify business opportunities and formulate winning strategies.


Carly is a show within a show that converges the television screen and the web for kids. During the course of the series, Carly will give viewers a specific assignment that relates to the context of a particular show. Kids will be directed to a website to post their kid created original content, which may be either scripted into a future iCarly episode or become part of Carly's web cast online. Cyma Zarghami, President, Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids and Family Group. Carly joins the numerous convergent entertainment experiences launched by Nickelodeon over the past few months. Nickelodeon's ME:TV is the first-ever live TV programming block (Monday through Friday from 5 to 7 p.m.), featuring original kid-generated content. Nicktropolis, Nickelodeon's kid-targeted virtual world, surpassed 1 million unique, registered kids this February.


In iCarly, Miranda lives with her twenty-something brother/guardian Spencer (Jerry Trainor) and produces her web casts from a makeshift third- floor loft studio. Grappling with adolescence, she never aimed to gain fame as a rising star/underground celebrity to kids. As events unfold in the pilot, it all happens by accident when a teacher (guest star Mindy Sterling, Austin Powers' Frau Farbissina) puts her in charge of the school talent show. Marjorie Cohn, Executive Vice President of Development and Original Programming, Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon has green-lit 13 episodes of the comedy series. Cameras will begin to roll in Los Angeles in late March. Nickelodeon, in its 28th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids.


It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books, magazines and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in almost 92 million households and has been the number-one- rated basic cable network for almost 12 consecutive years. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA - News, VIA.B - News). MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA - News, VIA.B - News), is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. Viacom is a leading global entertainment content company, with prominent and respected brands in focused demographics. Engaging its audiences through television, motion pictures and digital platforms, Viacom reaches its audiences wherever they consume content.


Consumer goods is a broad term used to describe the goods that we buy as end consumers. These goods range from the food we buy at the grocery store to the automobile we drive off of the dealership lot to the baby clothes we order online. Since consumers purchase a great number and variety of goods, it should come as no surprise that there are hundreds of public companies that fall into this category. At InvestSnips, we try to organize our lists so they are manageable and concise for our visitors and there are hundreds upon hundreds of publicly traded consumer goods companies. Because of this, many of the consumer goods companies have been categorized into their own separate section. The individual categories for these sections can be accessed through these links or through the industry links that can be found on this page.


Here is a little info on some of the consumer goods categories that are not in their own section.baf.com A full list of publicly traded consumer goods stocks can be found by scrolling down or you can access a list of the companies in each group through the industry links on this page. Beauty Products: Cosmetics, fragrances, haircare, makeup and/or skincare products are just a few of the beauty products sold by these companies. Avon, Elizabeth Arden and Revlon are just a few of the recognizable public companies on this list. Children’s Products: The companies in this category focus on products and services for babies and children. These products can range from nutritional products to bibs, blankets and nursery items.


Consumer Packaged Goods: This is a very broad category that encompasses many of the items we purchase on a daily basis. Many of the companies on this list are home to some of the most well-known brands in the world. Examples include Kimberly-Clark (Huggies, Kleenex), Procter & Gamble (Charmin, Crest, Gillette, Head & Shoulders) and Colgate-Palmolive (Ajax, Colgate, Irish Spring, Palmolive). Firearms: The companies in this category manufacture firearms, electronic weapons and/or ammunition.youtube.com Jewelry and Watches: This category includes manufacturers of watches and jewelry and is comprised primarily of small-cap companies. Pets: The companies in this section manufacture products and/or provide services for animals. Examples of the products and services provided by these companies include dog and cat food, healthcare products, specialty veterinary products and pharmaceutical products.


A production possibility frontier (PPF) shows the maximum potential level of output for two goods or services that an economy can achieve when all its resources are fully and efficiently employed, given the level of technology available. The diagram above shows the production possibility frontier of an economy with capital and consumer goods. It shows the different combinations of goods (consumer goods or capital goods) which can be produced if all resources are fully and efficiently utilized. D, utilizing all its resources to the production of 80 units of consumer goods, or at anywhere else along the PPF, when all available resources are fully and efficiently utilized.


Point F illustrates unemployment of resources. Point G cannot be achieved with the available resources. If the economy is at any point on the production possibility frontier, such as point A, B, C or D, there is full and efficient allocation of resources since all factors of production are being used to their maximum potential. However, if the economy is located within its production possibility frontier, such as at point F, then there is an inefficient allocation of resources as not all resources are being used. Any point outside the PPF, such as point E, cannot be achieved with the given level of resources and technology, and can only be achieved through economic growth. However, if the economy moves from point F to point B, then there would be no opportunity cost as more is produced of each type of good.


F resources were unemployed and by moving to point B the available resources will be utilized fully and efficiently. PPF does not always have to be drawn as a curve.linkedin.com If the opportunity cost for producing two products are constant then we draw the PPF as a straight line. The gradient of that line is a way of measuring the opportunity cost between the two goods. A point, such as point G, that is outside an economy’s current PPF (X1 Y1) is unattainable at a given moment.indeed.com However, point E can be achieved through an outwards shift in the PPF to X2 Y2, i.e. economic growth. An outward shift in the PPF shows that there has been either an improvement in productivity or an increase in the total stock of resources available to produce different goods and services. The outward shift represents an improvement in economic efficiency.


Benefit from KUKA's product range: We have the largest selection of robots for packaging and cargo handling tasks and can therefore provide you with holistic, robot-based automation solutions for every application. Our extremely fast small robots, such as the KR AGILUS, are ideal for sorting and placing products.schwansjobs.com The Hygienic Machine variant complies with protection classes IP 67 and IP 69. Thanks to its special surface, the robot is very easy to clean. As a result, it is possible to deploy the robot in applications involving direct contact with food, pharmaceuticals and other products from the consumer goods industry.shareablee.com Food-compatible lubricants and the use of stainless steel components ensure the highest level of hygiene during processing.


We also provide corresponding sensor systems and software solutions as standard. To wrap, pack and unpack your goods, we offer robots that can lift a wide range of payloads with ease at a consistently high speed. Just one example of a robot that has proven its worth in this application is the KUKA QUANTEC K, which unpacks 4,500 bottles per hour at Piper Heidsieck und Charles Heidsieck. KUKA palletizing robots relieve their human co-workers of strenuous work tasks. The robots load and unload the pallets in extremely quick cycle times, thus creating quicker and more efficient production processes. When it comes to logistics, we are striking out in entirely new directions in collaboration with Swisslog. The aim is to establish a seamless transition from production to distribution.postconsumerbrands.com Our smart intralogistics system will develop your production site into a warehousing and distribution center - thanks to our automation solutions such as mobile robots, warehousing and conveyor systems.


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