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Innovative Software Solution Helps Improve Pricing Practices and Preserve Margins for CPG
Today’s Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) margins and profits are being threatened by regional and local price practices, fluctuating exchange rates, and local price disparities that create imbalances and can encourage misleading retailer buying tactics. To help mitigate these risks and provide global consumer goods manufacturers with a comprehensive software solution for effectively managing price practices and execution across multiple countries, Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), the leading global provider of enterprise market information solutions for the CPG, Retail, and Healthcare industries today announced availability of the IRI Cross-Border Pricing™ solution.
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Company signs renewal agreements with over two dozen leading global CPG manufacturers and sales and marketing agencies in first quarter alone
Noting its growing business momentum, Information Resources, Inc., the leading global provider of enterprise market information solutions for the CPG, Retail, and Healthcare industries today announced that it has signed multi-year global business relationships with over two dozen of the world’s top consumer packaged goods manufacturers and sales and marketing agencies since the first of the year.
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New In-store Solutions Group to Deliver Complete View of Retail Conditions for the CPG industry
As part of its ongoing focus to expand its retail execution and in-store insights capabilities, IRI has acquired the outstanding ownership of Mosaic InfoForce, L.P. (MIF). MIF is a principal supplier of in-store audits, measuring perimeter merchandising, display, shelf, and front-end store conditions across all classes of trade. MIF, a joint venture between IRI and the Mosaic Group, Inc., is a leading provider of in-store data collection and retail audit services, which collects information on in-store conditions and provides solutions to manufacturer challenges.
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Top New Brands Hit the Mark with Consumers; Convenience and Better Health Solutions Big — But Don’t Forget Taste and Variety
Information Resources, Inc. released today the annual New Product Pacesetters report, a highly-anticipated analysis of the most successful new consumer packaged goods brands launched in 2003-2004, the factors driving their success, and key consumer purchase trends to watch in 2005.
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Relationship to support higher in-stocks, lower inventory levels and reduced overall supply-chain costs for CPG manufacturers
Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) and Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), announced an agreement to provide consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies with data management and business-performance management solutions to support supply- and demand-chain activities including improved category and assortment planning, vendor-managed inventory and sales and marketing analysis using daily customer-transaction information.
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IRI unveils next generation business insights solutions for industry; enables improved revenue and profit performance and retail execution
Attracting more than 1,000 attendees from nearly 300 of the world’s top consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, Information Resources, Inc.’s (IRI) Reinventing CPG and Retail Summit was a major success in just its second year. The event has become the industry’s only broad-based, high-level forum dedicated to advancing and reinventing the CPG and retail industries through the exchange of innovative, profit-boosting strategies and new solutions unveiled by IRI.
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Targeted Consumer Panel Expansion Offers Broadest Coverage Available Today; New Integrated Insights Panels Provide Unprecedented Understanding of Cons
Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) today announced two major initiatives aimed at providing deeper, more complete understanding of preferences and behaviors of today’s shoppers that have been difficult to measure using traditional panel survey techniques.
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Unique In-Store Shopper Research Uncovers How Consumers’ Shopping Expertise Impacts Category Sales; Provides Unique Opportunity to Convert Browsers to
Expanding the depth and breadth of its Shopper Insights offerings to deliver deeper understanding on consumers who shop at multiple retail outlets for specific categories and brands, Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) today announced IRI ShopperLink™. Based on unique in-store shopper research capabilities and a proven research methodology, the new ShopperLink™ service provides the deeper understanding of specific consumer shopping behaviors required by CPG manufacturers and retailers to more effectively reach their consumers and improve performance.
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Industry Award Program Honors Leaders Transforming Their Organizations and Products
Information Resources, Inc., AMR Research, and leading industry publisher Racher Press, Inc. announced the winners of the second annual CPG & Retail Excellence Awards, giving top honors to Food Lion, Kraft, McNeil Nutritionals and PepsiCo.
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Daily Retailer POS Data and Analysis Enables Manufacturers to Reduce Out-of-Stocks, Ensure Trade Promotion Compliance and Monitor New Product Introduc
Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), the leading global provider of enterprise market information solutions for the CPG, Retail, and Healthcare industries today announced the latest addition to its Consumer-driven Enterprise Management Software Solutions, IRI Retail Performance Management™.
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