Walmart Selects SymphonyIRI as Primary Provider of Panel Shopper Insights; SymphonyIRI Customer Advantage Solution Becomes Platform of Choice to Support Customer-Centric Insights
SymphonyIRI will Provide Walmart Custom Trip Missions, Food Segments and Collaborative Consumer Decision Tree Information to Fuel Deeper Shopper Intelligence Capabilities for Company and Supplier Community
CHICAGO, July 25, 2011 – SymphonyIRI Group today announced a new relationship supporting Walmart’s customer-centric initiatives whereby the two companies are introducing a next-generation, Web-based shopper insights and collaborative planning platform, Customer Advantage™. Powered by SymphonyIRI’ s industry leading Liquid Data™ technology and rich marketing analytics, Customer Advantage will be available from SymphonyIRI beginning August 2011.
Leveraging SymphonyIRI’s Consumer Network™, Customer Advantage delivers unique, custom, Walmart-focused shopper insights and supports Walmart's collaborative planning process by providing a dedicated shopper insights portal of user-friendly, customizable reports shared between Walmart and its supplier partners. The solution contains multiple custom features, including exclusive Walmart business drivers, such as Walmart-defined shopping trips, geographies, and customer segments, as well as custom report templates that support Walmart’s planning process with its supplier community.
The solution will enable manufacturers to better understand and address the rapidly evolving needs of Walmart shoppers by closely collaborating with Walmart on shopper strategies and tactics. With Customer Advantage, Walmart and its supplier partners will share the same custom knowledge base about Walmart’s shoppers. Leveraging this shared knowledge, Walmart and its suppliers can work together to improve planning, shopper marketing, and growth through better shopper insights.
“The Customer Advantage solution identifies and sizes opportunities among shopper segments, trips and categories that will better enable Walmart and its supplier partners to grow their businesses through a deeper understanding of our customers,” said Cindy Davis, executive vice president of Walmart global customer insights.
“SymphonyIRI has a unique understanding of collaborative planning challenges and is well positioned to enable closer alignment between manufacturers and retailers,” commented John G. Freeland, SymphonyIRI president and chief executive officer. “We believe Walmart is dedicated to their customers and is boldly employing new, innovative supplier collaboration strategies that not only better meet their customers’ needs, but also improve marketing and merchandising decisions. We are pleased to be working with Walmart to ensure growth for their company and their valued supplier community.”
About SymphonyIRI Group, Inc.
SymphonyIRI Group, formerly named Information Resources, Inc. (“IRI”), is the global leader in innovative solutions and services for driving revenue and profit growth at CPG, retail and healthcare companies. SymphonyIRI offers two families of solutions: Core IRI solutions for market measurement and Symphony Advantage solutions for enabling new growth opportunities in marketing, sales, shopper marketing and category management. SymphonyIRI solutions uniquely combine content, analytics and technology to deliver maximum impact. SymphonyIRI helps companies create, plan and execute forward-looking, shopper-centric strategies across every level of the organization. For more information, visit: http://www.SymphonyIRI.com.
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SymphonyIRI Group Contacts:
John McIndoe
E-mail: john.mcindoe@SymphonyIRI.com
Phone: (312) 474-3862
Shelley Hughes
E-mail: shelley.hughes@SymphonyIRI.com
Phone: (312) 474-3675