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March 21, 2023

Reducing Friction in Ad Networks Performance Marketing with Pear Commerce's Eric Martell

The CPG Guys speak with Eric Martell, co-founder of Pear Commerce, the retail ecommerce platform that connects CPGs to retailers, converting shoppable media into actionable insights that fuel performance marketing. Pear partners with 4 of the top 6 grocery retailers in the U.S. to provide DTC-like full-funnel targeting capabilities with conversion metrics. Follow Eric Martell on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-martell/ Follow Pear Commerce on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/...
Guest: Eric Martell
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Aug. 31, 2022

A Northern Perspective on Omnichannel Transformation with Mars Canada's Chantal Templeton

The CPG Guys, PVSB and Sri are joined in this episode by Chantal Templeton, GM of Mars Canada. With $40 billion in annual sales, Mars produces some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™ Follow Chantal Templeton on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chantal-templeton-4a269012/ Follow Mars on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mars/ Follow Mars onlin...
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July 27, 2022

Digital Commerce in Snacking with Mondelēz International's Francesca Hahn

The CPG Guys, PVSB and Sri are joined in this episode by Francesca Hahn, VP of Digital Commerce & GM of DTC at Mondelēz International, the world's leading manufacturer of snacking foods. Follow Francesca Hahn on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesca-hahn/ Follow Mondelēz International on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mondelezinternational/ Follow Mondelēz International online at: https://www.mondelezinternational.com/ Francesca answers these questions: 1) Your...
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July 20, 2022

Building An Authentic Feminine Care Brand with Lola's Monica Belsito

The CPG Guys, PVSB and Sri are joined in this episode by Monica Belsito, Chief Marketing Officer at Lola, the first lifelong brand for reproductive health. They’re dedicated to providing consumers with an ever-expanding portfolio of trusted products and candid information for you to make deliberate decisions about your reproductive health. From your first period to your last hot flash (and beyond!), we’ve got you covered. Founded and led by women, LOLA is on a mission to reshape the conversatio...
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Jan. 5, 2022

DTC Digital Transformation with Colgate-Palmolive's Diana Haussling

The CPG Guys, Sri & PVSB, are joined in this episode by Diana Haussling, VP & General Manager of Digital Commerce at Colgate-Palmolive Company. Diana was recently named to the AdAge "40 Under 40" list of honorees. Follow Diana Haussling on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianahaussling/ Find Colgate brand products at http://shop.colgate.com Find Co by Colgate brand products at https://co.colgate.com/ Find Hello brand products at https://www.hello-products.com/ Find Tom's of Maine bra...
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April 17, 2021

Enabling Brand DTC Part 3 with GSK's Carolina Flores

In this episode of The CPG Guys podcast, Sri & PVSB speak with Carolina Flores, Associate Digital Marketing Manager at GSK. Carolina speaks about how several brands within the GSK portfolio have adopted Shoppable, a distributed commerce technology company with a suite of e-commerce products surrounding Shoppable's patented, universal checkout API. Shoppable's solutions enable advertisers, retailers, and publishers to create shoppable sites, content, ads, videos, mobile apps, recipes and other in...
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March 24, 2021

Enabling Brand DTC Part 2 with Shoppable's Heather Marie Udo

In this episode of The CPG Guys podcast, Sri & PVSB speak with Heather Marie Udo. the founder & CEO of Shoppable, a distributed commerce technology company with a suite of e-commerce products surrounding Shoppable's patented, universal checkout API. Shoppable's solutions enable advertisers, retailers, and publishers to create shoppable sites, content, ads, videos, mobile apps, recipes and other innovative commerce. The CPG Guys have partnered with Shoppable to report on this solution that provid...
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March 5, 2021

Enabling Brand DTC Part 1 with Shoppable's Holly Boni

The CPG Guys, Sri & PVSB, are joined in the first of a 3 part episode arc on enabling DTC with Holly Boni, the Director of Sales & Partnerships at Shoppable, a distributed commerce technology company with a suite of e-commerce products surrounding Shoppable's patented, universal checkout API. Shoppable's solutions enable advertisers, retailers, and publishers to create shoppable sites, content, ads, videos, mobile apps, recipes and other innovative commerce. The CPG Guys have partnered with Shop...
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Feb. 11, 2021

Outcome-Based Health with Upgraid's Justin Kamine

The CPG Guys Sri & PVSB are joined in this episode by Justin Kamine, founder & CEO of Upgraid, an outcome-based health natural supplements brand. Please follow the CPG Guys on Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/cpgpodcast Questions that Justin addresses: Take us through the journey of Upgraid - how did this happen, how did you find a team? What’s the motivation behind Upgraid? Selfcare - that’s today’s norm? Why has selfcare been such a nascent outcome in the US? Why are we so focused...
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Oct. 23, 2020

Profitability Part 4 - DTC eCommerce

The CPG Guys Sri & PVSB continue their 5 part series on eCommerce Profitability. In this issue, they address DTC. Topics covered include: The types of DTC eCommerce The ‘hot issues top of mind’ Margins and DTC How to approach starting DTC Companion documents can be found at http://cpgguys.com CPGGUYS LLC expressly disclaims any and all liability or responsibility for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or other damages arising out of any individual’s use of, reference...