Del Monte Foods – “Good company to work for if you are quantitively oriented. Not a great place for pure CPG consumer marketers.”

Pros

Great people, great brands, good for you products

Cons

65-70% of your time is spent doing volume forecasting, answering management questions with detailed analysis, and very little effort is spent on really knowing the consumer.

Advice to Senior Management

Put more trust in all the Sr. Brand Managers you just brought into the company. Don't let the long time Del Monte employee Senior Management take away their enthusiasm