Special Reports Archive

Fleet intern Ali Costikyan

Many of those in Fleet Laboratories’ top leadership garnered experience at large consumer packaged goods companies. In fact, the sales leadership team has amassed more than 165 years of experience with eight blue chip companies holding roles across 10 different functions from supply chain to finance. “We have seasoned people who are brand builders,” said Todd Hutsko, VP sales.

Altruism and sustainable profits aren’t always concepts you’ll find in the same sentence, but don’t tell that to Dave Simnick.

CPG executives each discussed their companies’ efforts to recruit and develop high emotional intelligence during a panel discussion moderated by Dan Mack, executive director of the Mack Elevation Forum, at the Future Leaders Summit.

For a sales and marketing team operating in the retail space to be truly successful today, team members need to have a high EQ — the emotional equivalent to IQ.

That health care is undergoing a period of transformation is by now well-known fact among industry professionals. It is especially well known by Startup Health, whose director of strategic partnerships Katya Hancock shared with attendees of the Drug Store News/Mack Elevation Future Leaders Summit the mindset innovative companies seeking to transform health care all share in common.

Jason Reiser, COO at Vitamin Shoppe

 
Some of life’s greatest lessons can come from the pages of a comic book. Take, for instance, Uncle Ben’s advice to his nephew Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man: “With great power comes great responsibility.”

Take a new leadership team that has been in place for nearly two years; add a strong, stated focus on investing in and retaining the best talent in the industry; blend new talent with long-term company leaders and associates; all to create the best mix of diversity and human resources who possess rich industry knowledge and leading CPG expertise. This is the leadership recipe NBTY has been following — and it’s working, said Andrew Archambault, chief customer officer, U.S. Nutrition - NBTY.