Rockfarm Supply Chain Solutions has acquired a majority interest in Global Distribution & Logistics LLC.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Harris Corp. have jointly developed a new collaboration tool.

Zurich Insurance Co. Ltd. has launched the Zurich Environmental Emergency Response (ZEER) mobile app.

Principia Consulting has launched SupplyBuilder, an online data application for the building materials industry.

Esker, a vendor of software for automating document processes, has released Esker Anywhere.

Emerging markets have driven growth for many multinational corporations (MNCs) for years, and they will continue to do so. But these are turbulent times as commodity prices plunge, currencies are devalued, and equity markets gyrate. The profitability of many MNCs' operations is already under attack, and future performance will be challenged by slower macroeconomic growth, increasing costs, and heightened competition from local companies, which are rapidly gaining scale, experience, and capability. To reduce these pressures, companies will have to focus much more on improving their competitiveness through constant productivity gains.