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Regardless of where companies currently stand on the sustainability spectrum, there is always room for growth — and certainly the demand to support it. As consumer awareness of sustainable brand practices grows, there are some considerations that companies must make to catch up or stay ahead of the curve.

Prairie Farms Dairy has partnered with the Humana Kentucky Derby Festival miniMarathon and Marathon as the chocolate milk refueling partner for the race. The Humana miniMarathon and Marathon mark the largest road races in Kentucky, with over 12,000 participants.

The NextGen Cup Consortium, an effort driven by McDonald's and Starbucks, is debuting reusable cup pilot programs at independent coffee shops around San Francisco and Palo Alto, California. The consortium is managed by Closed Loop Partners' Center for the Circular Economy.

Challenger brands, which set themselves apart with an intent to bring change to an industry, are driving massive change across the fast-moving consumer goods industry. At the same time, in order to grow their sales these brands are bridging the gap between selling exclusively online and building an in-store presence.

Short’s Brewery in Northern Michigan was established in 2002 by Joe Short. Short had gained significant brewing experience at other Michigan breweries and realized that his style of brewing was best suited to his own business model.

Modern manufacturing environments produce an enormous amount of data. And as systems and platforms develop to monitor and manage this volume of information, many companies are left wondering what kind of software best suits their need for both measurement and analytics.

NuPrintUK, a leading packaging provider based in the U.K., challenged 12 designers from 12 different countries to design a soda can, all of which had the same brief. The project revealed key differences in design based on cultural differences seen in countries across the world.