Kraft’s center-aisle initiatives. Unilever’s Sthanunathan on MR now & future. (RBDR 4.7.2015)

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Today on RBDR: 1) Kraft reveals some of the things it is doing to the center aisles of retails outlets in order to juice up its marketing and sales. 2) Unilever SVP & CMI Stan Sthanunathan talks to Bob Lederer about current and future research tools and his special relationship with Unilever CMO Keith Weed.

Big Share draws mktg & finance together; How CMOs should change (RBDR–7/22/14)

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Making news on RBDR today: 1) MarketShare co-founder and CEO Wes Nichols notes four prominent U.S. corporations who prove his contention that sharing Big Data is driving marketing and finance departments together. 2) A Vivaldi Partners Group study of 50 CMOS on three continents concludes that the Chief Marketing Officer role needs to back off and allow talented individuals working in departments underneath them to play their trade and exert their expert influence.

New Intel processor faster, more robust, boosting MR capabilities; India TV ratings go dark–may stay so for foreseeable future; Canada makes $4m investment in poultry research; Confirmit MyMobile cops Customer of Year Award; Yahoo & Carnegie Mellon collaborate on smartphone development (RBDR–2/20/2014)

Today: 1) Intel introduces its newest, fastest, most robust data processor, which will expand research’s data handling–including volumes–capabilities and speed. 2) India’s TV and readership ratings go dark as the current TAM group (Kantar and Nielsen) seek to reverse new media research ownership guidelines. 3) Canada’s Agricultural Minister invests $4 million with Canadian Poultry Research Council to firm up the agribusiness sector. 4) Confirmit’s MYMobile app wins the TMC Customer 2014 of the Year Award. 5) Yahoo! Labs and Carnegie Mellon University researchers will collaborate in the next five years on smartphone app development and algorithms that can predict human behavior.