Leading global manufacturers Kraft Foods, Nestlé and The Procter & Gamble Company, along with German-based retailer Metro Group, announced today they have extended the use of the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN) to synchronize item data in Russia.The supply-chain partners are leveraging the GDSN connections of two world-leading GDSN data-pool providers. Kraft, Nestlé and P&G are members of 1SYNC, the world’s largest data pool; while Metro Group uses SA2 Worldsync as its... ...Read more »

The Procter & Gamble Company has filed a patent lawsuit against Kraft Foods Inc., manufacturer of the Maxwell House Coffee brand. The lawsuit, filed in the United States Federal District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Cincinnati, alleges that the new four-pound plastic container for Maxwell House coffee, now being introduced in America, infringes key Procter & Gamble patents on Folgers Coffee. In 2003, P&G introduced Folgers Coffee in a “consumer-preferred plastic container”.... ...Read more »

The number one ground coffee brand in the US has been involved in a merger deal worth approximately US$3.3 billion. The J. M. Smucker Company and The Procter & Gamble Company yesterday announced the signing of a definitive agreement to merge the Folgers coffee business into The J. M. Smucker Company. Folgers is currently owned by global giant Procter & Gamble, responsible for the Gillette and Pringles brands among many others, and is the leading producer of retail packaged coffee products... ...Read more »