Colgate Shifts Innovation Focus From Growing Sales In Core Segments To Expanding Categories
Executive Summary
Colgate shifts innovation focus to product launches that expand categories and grow sales for the long term. “We have to expand the pie in the categories that we compete … we’re not going to do that with simply core adjacencies,” says CEO Noel Wallace.
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