Consumer Goods Registry 2006

CGT presents our annual 100 Consumer Goods Registry, which was developed to provide you with a glimpse into the leaders across major consumer goods verticals. At a glance, most of the companies on our lists saw growth in 2005 over 2004, but we will let the experts speak to this. Wall Street analysts provide their thoughts on market health and trends in the past and for the upcoming year.

As seen throughout the issues of CGT this year, technology is playing an ever-important and increasing role as the foundation for process and product innovation, leading to success and growth for consumer goods companies. Examples of successful technology implementations, product launches and change management projects are highlighted in the following pages.

CHANGE IS GOOD
For this year's Consumer Goods Registry we made a few changes. We added verticals such as Tobacco and Retail and removed others, like Media/Publishing and Consumer Electronics, which proved too difficult to separate consumer and commercial product sales. In addition, last year's Recreation vertical was coined more specifically as Toys/Games this year.

In compiling the registry, we sourced Hoovers, company annual reports, Web sites and press releases for facts, figures and information. We used net sales figures or the equivalent, and numbers are subject to current conversion rates.

To be noted, we made some criteria changes this year. We do not list holding companies, but instead list the subsidiary, business unit or operating company that is chiefly responsible for its product. For example, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company is a holding company, but Reynolds American produces and distributes the product. As such, Reynolds American appears on the list.

We do not list private companies unless financials from 2005 or later happen to be reported publicly. Thus, a large and well-known company -- such as Bacardi Limited -- may not be on the list. In the pharmaceutical vertical, only sales from over the counter (OTC) and consumer products are listed. If these sales figures could not be accurately separated from other sources, then that company is not listed. Again, this may result in an obvious, but accurate omission.