CHICAGO, March 4, 2008 – Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), the leading global provider of consumer, shopper, and market insights for the consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail, and healthcare industries, today announced that Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., one of the nation’s largest retail chains, is utilizing its retail space planning software, IRI Apollo Designer Workstation, to optimize the performance of its retail shelf space, reduce out-of-stocks, and improve customer satisfaction.
“IRI Apollo Designer Workstation will allow us to implement a customer-centric merchandise planning approach for each of our stores,” says Jim Carrado, senior director, neighborhood merchandising department, Winn-Dixie Stores. “The automated software will tailor planograms at the store level, synchronize our product assortments, and improve inventory demands, which will ultimately lead to greater customer satisfaction.”
Launched by IRI in 2005, Designer Workstation is an easy-to-use desktop product that leverages rules-based automation to revolutionize the retail space planning process. It combines assortment, capacity and merchandising rules to generate hundreds of unique planograms per planner per day.
“Winn-Dixie is truly a trailblazer in retail space planning,” says IRI President and Chief Executive Officer John Freeland. “They decided to discard the manual one-size-fits-all approach and use Designer Workstation to make store-level space planning a reality. This product will empower them to win at the shelf and increase profitability by eliminating unproductive inventory, selecting optimal planograms for each of their stores.”
Designer Workstation is a component of the widely used Apollo system, a de-facto standard within the CPG and retail industries, and can be used with other space planning programs as well. Additional detail on the product can be found at: http://us.infores.com/page/manufacturers/retail_performance/apollo_design_work.
About Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
Winn-Dixie is one of the nation's largest food retailers. Founded in 1925, the company is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. The company currently operated 521 stores in the Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, and Mississippi. For more information about Winn-Dixie, please visit our web site at www.winn-dixie.com.
About Information Resources, Inc.
Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) is the world’s leading global provider of consumer, shopper, and retail market intelligence and insights, empowering consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail and healthcare companies to grow their business profitably in a complex marketplace. Driving breakthrough growth in the industries it serves, the company’s portfolio of services, solutions, and technology enable leading retailers and their suppliers around the globe to see what they are missing, act faster with greater confidence, and win at the shelf. Ninety-five percent of the FORTUNE Global 500 in CPG and retail leverage IRI to power their business. For more information, visit: http://www.infores.com/.
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