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  • Escalating use behind Amazon.com tripling of Dash Button offering
    SEATTLE - Amazon.com on Thursday tripled the number of brands that can be replenished through the online retailer's Amazon Dash Button, including new brands like Doritos, Energizer, Red Bull and Starbucks. Even Trojan can now be re-ordered through Amazon. 
     

  • GMDC partners with KOTRA on bringing Korean products to U.S. shelves
    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Global Market Development Center on Thursday partnered with the Korean Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, a leading Asian trade group, to assist Korean companies and brands with market entry into the United States while leveraging U.S. retail channel opportunities.
     

  • Yankee Candle unveils the perfect summer collection

    SOUTH DEERFIELD, Mass. -- The world's largest manufacturer of premium scented candles is taking consumers on a trip to Margaritaville.

    Yankee Candle Company has teamed up with the fast-growing lifestyle brand in the United States to launch the Margaritaville Collection. Candles including Jamaican Vacation, Lime & Sea Salt, Pineapple Breeze, and Mother Ocean await shoppers at retailers nationwide. 

  • Jelmar rebranding popular CLR product line

    CHICAGO -- The manufacturer of some of the most popular household cleaning products in the United States is rebranding one of its leading product lines.

    Jelmar, the maker of CLR and Tarn-X, is overhauling its CLR line to better connect with consumers through redesigned packaging that fully showcases the product's function and better communicates Jelmar's brand purpose.

  • IRI raises the stakes with IRI Lift, a real-time ad-tracking solution that measures sales lift
    CHICAGO - IRI on Monday introduced IRI Lift, the industry’s only real-time digital advertising solution that measures offline sales lift. IRI Lift, developed in partnership with Kantar Shopcom, helps identify digital media optimization opportunities by determining which digital media is most effective with target audiences and ties media exposures to actual offline purchases down to the specific product and household level. 
     

  • Klutz to launch new product line in 2017

    NEW YORK -- A leading brand of activity kits for kids is launching a new book and craft line for kids ages 4 and up.

    Klutz says it plans to roll out four Klutz Jr. kits beginning in January, with four more planned for fall 2017 and four planned per year thereafter.

  • FDA moves to ban most powdered surgical gloves

    WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration proposed banning powdered surgical gloves on Monday, saying the powder can carry dangerous allergens into the air.

    The FDA says that while use of these gloves is decreasing, they pose an unreasonable and substantial risk of illness or injury to health care providers, patients and other individuals who are exposed to them, which cannot be corrected through new or updated labeling.

  • Industry vet Ted Peterson launches customer development company CPG Linkages
    MCLEAN, Va. — Ted Peterson, HBC industry veteran and former VP of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, today announced his new firm CPG Linkages, which will focus on customer development efforts to help national trade associations and their manufacturer members connect with each other and their retail customers to identify and execute business growth opportunities.
     
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