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From blueprint to breakthrough: How AI and automation can transform the consumer enterprise

McKensey

Let’s say a retail merchandiser starts the process of analyzing scores of sales data and making recommendations for stock adjustments. In fact, consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) and retail companies that lead in digital and AI are already showing three times greater total shareholder returns compared with their peers in the sector.

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Meet the 2022 Women of Influence

Success

She is someone who’s made an indelible impact, inspired her peers or otherwise influenced countless people around her. She is a Woman of Influence. Which is why the Women of Influence awards were created. Which is why the Women of Influence awards were created. That wouldn’t be nearly enough. in 1995 to 27% in 2019.”

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Furniture Makers to hold next sustainability event focussed on material choices

Workplace Insight

Membership: Members of the Furniture Makers’ Company are typically professionals in the furniture industry, such as furniture designers, manufacturers, retailers, and other associated trades. The Company also funds awards and educational initiatives, such as the Furniture Makers Company Scholarship and The Design Guild Mark.

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From Small Salon to Celebrity Skincare: Mario Badescu’s President Shares the Secrets to Creating a Legacy Brand

Success

They did, growing into 36 rooms, and continuing, at that time, to manufacture the product in the basement. Things really started to accelerate when they moved into retail, first with the NYC department store Henri Bendel, which led to partnerships with more and more retailers. We don’t do that. Everything, we make here.

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Employers are upping benefits, but 91% of new mothers still struggle with returning to work

Work Life

As those benefits have started influencing retention and driving workers to seek out new jobs, employers have taken notice—so it’s no surprise that benefits providers like Carrot are seeing companies invest more deeply in these offerings. .”

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Oh, Mexico: A Burned-Out CEO Turns a Ranch into a Retreat

Success

Burned out from a career in retail, Lisa Harper sought refuge in sleepy coastal towns on the Baja California peninsula in Mexico. fit model and later worked for the denim designer and manufacturer by flying around the world to source products. That was in the mid-1990s. Before that, she was a Levi Strauss & Co.

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9 ways to turn team challenges into opportunities

Work Life

Christopher Salem , business acceleration strategist, Sustainable Success Coaching & Consulting Repurposing excess inventory into a partnership solution Years ago, a manufacturer I worked for experienced a major inventory problem with an international vendor. I had a sit-down with our CEO.