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The week in Consumer Packaged Goods
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AI activity broadened from product discovery and data coordination into core transactions, with pilots and deployments spanning beauty, consumer commerce, and order-to-payment workflows. The recurrence across companies points to AI becoming an operating and sales layer rather than only a marketing experiment.
Marico's strong quarter repeated across two days as foods and premium personal care drove growth, margins expanded, and the company raised its FY27 margin outlook. Lower input costs and improving international markets made the growth look more durable, though cost, geopolitical, and weather risks remain.
e.l.f. followed its 51% sales increase with confirmation of a 31st consecutive quarter of net-sales growth and an 86% adjusted EBITDA increase. Growth across every brand suggests its value pricing, innovation, and marketing model is scaling beyond a single breakout label.
Kraft Heinz turned its restructuring plan into a concrete sale of its North American coffee business. The repeated focus on a simpler portfolio leaves execution and future growth to prove that the transaction creates more value than merely reducing the company's scope.
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