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Gaps in Manufacturer Support Leave Healthcare Retailers Vulnerable in Rx-to-OTC Switches, Withdrawals, Recalls, and Other Unplanned Events; Improved P
According to findings from a recent IRI/National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) survey of healthcare executives among the country’s leading retailers, current manufacturing planning processes and support levels for Rx-to-OTC (over-the-counter) switches and drug recalls and withdrawals are sub-par, leaving retailers vulnerable to lost sales and unhappy customers.
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IRI’s Extensive Adult Beverage Expertise and Proven Ability to Provide Quality Marketplace Insights Key to Selection
Information Resources, Inc., the leading global provider of enterprise market solutions for the CPG, Retail and Beverage Alcohol industries today announced that Mike’s Hard Lemonade is the newest beverage alcohol manufacturer to select IRI and its InfoBeerUSA™ service as its preferred provider of marketplace information, business insights, and access solutions.
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Breakthrough Solution Leverages Harmonized Data, Advanced Modeling and Enterprise-Class Software for Unified, Decision-Enabled View of Trade Promotion
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 Trade Performance™ solution. The new comprehensive trade promotion management solution provides CPG manufacturers with the ability to analyze, plan, execute, and monitor comprehensive trade promotions across all company divisions, aligning activities on one easy-to-use enterprise application.
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IRI Expert Reveals Latest Advances in Retail Execution to Drive Improved Performance at Shelf
Industry estimates indicate that most consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers lose between 8 – 10% of revenue per year due to out-of-stocks. To address this increasing dilemma, leading retail execution expert Craig Silverman presents “Solving Out-of-Stocks: Are We There Yet?” delivering a review of the latest retail execution strategies and solutions to reduce out-of-stocks, improve promotion effectiveness and achieve consistent and rapid new product introduction distribution intelligence.
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New Total Scan-based C-Store Service Significantly Improves Data Quality and Retail Execution Capabilities
With over 138,000 retail stores primarily operated by single store owners with limited or no point-of-sale (POS) scanning capabilities, today’s convenience channel remains a challenging sector to effectively track. Recognizing the need for deeper business insights and improved information quality over audit-based services, Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), the leading global provider of enterprise market information solutions for the CPG, Retail, and healthcare industries and eRevolution, a premier provider of POS scanning technology for individual and multi-chain store operators, today announced a strategic relationship to provide a next generation scan-based sales tracking service for the convenience store channel.
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Blattberg’s Manufacturer and Retailer Expertise to Drive Further Market Analytics
Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), today announced that leading analytics academian and authority Dr. Robert C. Blattberg has joined IRI as its chief analytics officer in an exclusive advisory role, supporting the company’s aggressive innovation efforts to identify and deliver the industry’s next generation of breakthrough business analytics solutions.
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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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