Chicago – December 20, 2004 – Information Resources, Inc., (IRI) the leading global provider of enterprise market information solutions for the CPG, Retail, and Healthcare industries, AMR Research, a top industry analyst firm, and leading publisher Racher Press have joined efforts to sponsor the industry’s premier award program, the 2005 CPG & Retail Excellence Awards. The program is currently accepting applications for the awards in various categories of transformation and best practice performance. Applications can be found at www.infores.com/excellenceawards.
The CPG & Retail Excellence Awards pay tribute to the CPG manufacturing and retailing companies successfully transforming their organizations or products through innovative, leading-edge applications of business performance management, competitive understanding, or technology.
“AMR Research is in a position to work with some of the best companies in the business, as we deal with thousands of executives across a wide spectrum of industries that are looking to improve business process performance and cut costs,” said Scott Langdoc, Vice President of Research, Retail Industry Practice, AMR Research. “This award recognizes those that are leading the current transformation in the consumer packaged goods and retail sectors.”
Winners of the “CPG & Retail Excellence Awards” will be selected from four categories:
- Business Transformation of the Year - highlighting achievements of a company that has transformed or reinvented itself or one of its brands to achieve significantly improved revenue, reduced costs or increased efficiencies.
- Competitive Insights Reinvention of the Year – recognizing the company with the corporate commitment to develop best-in-class consumer, competitor, retailer or brand understanding throughout its enterprise through the application of innovative new research methods or creative application of existing ones to deliver improved ROI.
- CPG Manufacturer Innovation of the Year – acknowledging the CPG manufacturer who has created innovative strategies or technologies to address evolving consumer attitudes, preferences and behaviors to improve performance.
- CPG Retailer Innovation of the Year - honoring the retailer that has successfully created innovative strategies or technologies focused on addressing evolving retail execution issues and/or improving the in-store shopping experience to improve performance.
- Tremendous transformation, not just at IRI, but at many of the world’s leading CPG manufacturers and retailers has occurred over the past year and this unique industry award program honors those forward thinking companies that are leading the charge towards improved performance in a new era of retailing,” said Scott W. Klein, President and CEO of IRI.
- These annual awards provide the perfect opportunity to illuminate the best of the best in innovation and transformation and we are pleased to once again be co-sponsoring this important industry program,” commented David Pinto, President of Racher Press and Editor of Chain Drug Review and MMR – Mass Market Retailers.
A panel of industry analysts from AMR Research and media representatives from Chain Drug Review and MMR will review the applications, judging them on several criteria, including: 1.) overall quality of the awards application, 2.) program depth and breadth, 3.) time to value, 4.) innovation, and 5.) overall benefits received.
The awards will be presented at a gala dinner in Miami Beach, Florida, on February 28, 2005. The ceremony will be part of IRI’s “CPG & Retail Summit 2005,” the industry’s only broad-based, high-level forum designed to share profit-boosting strategies for buyers and sellers within the CPG and retail industries. The Summit is taking place February 27 - March 1, 2005, at the newly renovated Fontainebleau Hilton Resort and Towers in Miami Beach, Fla.
CPG & Retail Excellence Award Submissions
Complete award program information and awards applications are located at www.infores.com/excellenceawards. Award applications must be received by February 1, 2005.
CPG & Retail Summit 2005 Registration Information
Early bird Summit registration is $1,450 per registrant until January 31, 2005. Regular registration is $1,600. The registration fee covers admission to all Reinventing CPG & Retail Summit 2005 general, breakout, and solutions sessions, meals, award gala, and other social events. For more information and to register online, visit www.cpgsummit.com or call Sue McConnell at (312) 474-2638.
About AMR Research
AMR Research provides world class research and actionable advice for executives tasked with delivering enhanced business process performance and cost savings with the aid of technology. Five thousand leaders in the Global 1000 put their trust in AMR Research’s integrity, depth of industry expertise, and passion for customer service to support their most critical business initiatives, including supply chain transformation, new product introduction, customer profitability, compliance and governance, and IT benefit realization. More information is available at www.amrresearch.com.
About Racher Press
For more than a quarter century, Racher Press, Inc. has been an essential source of news for those with a stake in the retailing, consumer packaged goods, and pharmaceutical industries. The company’s publications include Chain Drug Review, the leading newspaper in the drug store channel: MMR – Mass Market Retailers, which covers discount, drug and supermarket chains and their suppliers, and Retail Pharmacy, a monthly in-depth report on all of the factors that impact pharmaceutical care and its delivery. For more information, visit www.chaindrugreview.com and www.massmarketretailers.com.
About Information Resources, Inc.
Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) is the leading global provider of enterprise market information solutions for the CPG, Retail, and Healthcare industries. IRI is the first company to leverage the power of real-time market information, advanced analytic insights, and enterprise performance management technology to improve the profitability and operational effectiveness of the world’s leading CPG, Retail, and Healthcare companies. The Company uniquely provides a total view of the market, enabling maximum business performance throughout the enterprise. IRI's solutions make the consumer-driven, real-time enterprise possible. More information is available at www.infores.com.