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Consumer Goods Supply Chains: The Next Five Years

Brenda Hambleton, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, ES3
July 15, 2013

Brenda Hambleton, chief marketing and strategy officer with ES3, details the biggest challenges that consumer-goods producers will be facing in their supply chains over the next five years. [Run Time (Min.): 10:01]

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