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The birth of The Consumer Goods Forum marks the beginning of a new era of cooperation between retailers and suppliers across the world to collectively address the major challenges facing our industry and society across the globe. The contribution of the International Commerce Review is to ask the leading voices in the industry to articulate these new challenges, mobilise the best brains in the academic world to help develop answers to them, and report on pioneering success stories.
International Commerce Review: Momentum Strategy for efficient growth
When the sumo meets the surfer
ICI Luncheon at the ECR conference in Barcelona on June 4, 2009 with Wharton Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management Serguei Netessine
Nearly forty senior executives from the consumer goods industry joined with leading academics at the International Commerce Institute luncheon. Serguei Netessine, Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, spoke about research conducted in the frame of the ICI – Unilever Research Grant:
Luncheon at the ECR conference in Berlin on May 28, 2008: Wharton associate professor of Marketing David Bell underlined the growing industry recognition of the need to create and share new knowledge
Nearly sixty senior consumer goods industry executives joined with leading academics at the International Commerce Institute luncheon, including ICI board member Raoul Hasselgren, ICI managing director Bernard Karli, and Wharton associate professor of marketing David Bell underlined the growing industry recognition of the need to create and share new knowledge to cope with a rapidly changing market environment.
Building Leadership for Executives in the Consumer Goods industry
Executive development - The Progressive Management Programme - the next step in your professional development. Read the comments of participants.
New Report from ECR Europe Shrinkage Group: Are Retailers Wasting Billions Every Year on Loss Prevention Technologies?
Every year retailers worldwide spend billions of Euros on various types of technology such as CCTV, tagging and Data Mining in an attempt to tackle the ever present problem of shrinkage, which estimated to cost the European Fast Moving Consumer Goods Sector alone as much Euros 18 billion a year (equivalent to the GDP of Luxembourg!). Trying to decide in which technology to invest can be tricky business, with often extravagant claims by suppliers being unsubstantiated by any published evidence.
Most Downloaded Article from the review
The Invisible Opportunity: The packaged goods market is not "mature". There are huge opportunities for profitable growth but they can only be realized by rooting out layer upon layer of hidden, institutionalized waste, by Daniel T. Jones
International Commerce Review: Why Fairness Matters
Back in the 1960s, the US government asked social psychologist J Thibaut to find out why an innovative system of mediation in the civil law courts was not getting its expected support.
ICI - Unilever Grant: Research Projects Retained for 2008
For the third consecutive year, the International Commerce Institute and Unilever launched their research grant aimed at furthering academic and industry knowledge in the areas of Collaborative Differentiation, Shopper-driven Integrated Supply Chain Management and Joint Shopper Value Creation
The Institute announces Unilever Grant research projects retained for this year
For the second consecutive year, the International Commerce Institute and Unilever launched their research grant aimed at furthering academic and industry knowledge in the areas of - Collaborative Differentiation - Shopper-driven Integrated Supply Chain Management - Joint Shopper Value Creation