IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has signed a seven-year agreement with Sara Lee Corporation (NYSE: SLE) to manage and maintain pieces of the consumer products company's global back office operations.

New nanotechnology consumer products are coming on the market at the rate of 3-4 per week, a finding based on the latest update to the nanotechnology consumer product inventory maintained by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN).

Consumers will have access to medicines, cosmetics, and other products that are “greener,” less expensive, and more environmentally friendly than ever before, thanks to new manufacturing processes now under development, according to an article scheduled for the Nov. 19 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS’ weekly newsmagazine.

Poor profitability has made Samsung Electronics Co. stop selling flat panel televisions and other consumer products in Japan, the company announced Friday.

An important new study examines how immigration influences the prices of consumer goods. The study, forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy, challenges the predictions of the perfectly competitive model – that an increase in demand leads to higher prices.

In a new study from the August issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, researchers from Northwestern University demonstrate how advertisements can be manipulated to cause overemphasis of a particular feature and increase the likelihood that a certain product is chosen.

Around one in eight British shoppers and consumers has bought a counterfeit watch, handbag or other product in the last year as it becomes more socially acceptable, a study by lawyers Davenport Lyons and Ledbury Research has found.

Witnessing dramatic changes since the 1980s, the electronics industry is poised for steady and sustainable growth globally due to booming economies and ever-increasing consumer demands. However, due to the decline in consumer product life cycles, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are using contract manufacturers to enable them to focus on product development and reduce labour and material costs.

Toshiba Corporation announced today that on April 6, 2007, Toshiba and Toshiba America Consumer Products, L.L.C. filed a formal complaint with the International Trade Commission (ITC) against 17 manufacturers and importers of DVD players, DVD recorders and other DVD-related products, as a means to halt infringement of Toshiba's DVD patents

Groucho Marx famously said that he wouldn't want to join any club that would have someone like him as a member. But if you are on the outside of some deal that benefits another group more than you, would this make you more or less interested in the product?