Food Lion is testing a program that will give suppliers such as PepsiCo access to consumer data and purchase forecasts. “We’re moving to a consumer-driven supply chain,” said an official with Delhaize America during the Supply Chain Conference sponsored by GMA and the Food Marketing Institute. “And if you’re serious about a consumer-driven supply chain, you’ve got to react to what the consumer wants and to forecasts of consumer demand as opposed to just reacting to pulls from the warehouse [to stores].”
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The Analyst Viewpoint
If you have not talked to Retail Solutions on lessons learned from these pilots, you should. Retail Solutions is successfully managing a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model to help CP companies gain insights on inventory movement. This type of inventory fingerprinting is essential to better understanding promotion execution.
- Lora Cecere, AMR Research, '10 Cool Technology Applications for Consumer Products,' May 17, 2007
In the News
Learn more about Retail Solutions and our customers' successes by reading articles from various industry publications and websites.
January 31st, 2012 (Case Study, In the News)
POS Drives Replenishment in Food Lion Test
December 5th, 2011 (In the News)
Big-Data Success Stories: Retail Solutions
Scott Denne of the Wall Street Journal profiles Retail Solutions as part of a series on start-ups that are having success in the area of “big data,” a catchall for the massive growth in storage capacity and processing power needed to manage large volumes of data.
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November 22nd, 2011 (In the News)
Lebensmittelzeitung: POS Data for Manufacturers
How Retail Solutions will provide manufacturers with point-of-sale data.
Read more here (in German).
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October 13th, 2011 (Award, In the News)
Retail Solutions Named as one of Silicon Valley Fastest-growing Private Companies
Retail Solutions was honored for the second consecutive year as one of Silicon Valley’s fastest growing private companies. The list compiled by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business honors privately-owned companies on the basis of their revenue growth between 2008 and 2010. With a revenue growth of 47.8%, Retail Solutions ranked 40 on this year’s list.
Complete coverage of the awards and the winners is available here.
October 5th, 2011 (In the News)
From Retail Reporting to Retail Execution Management
Virtually every consumer packaged goods (CPG) company has engaged into one or more downstream data programs with its core customers. The question is no longer whether to get started or not — it is now whether your company is amongst the industry leaders who are building a sustainable ROI from their investment in retailer data.
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August 25th, 2011 (Case Study, In the News)
Retail Solutions Case Studies posted on GMA’s New Ways of Working Together Website
Retail Solutions is proud to announce that two of its customers case studies, featuring the Procter & Gamble Company and Kimberly-Clark, have been retained as industry best practices for the new GMA New Ways of Working Together Web Site.
The New Ways of Working Together framework was established to help facilitate enhanced trading partner collaboration designed to jointly grow their businesses. To learn more on this framework and to read Retail Solutions’ case studies, please click here.
August 23rd, 2011 (Award, In the News)
Retail Solutions Recognized for its Growth by Inc. Magazine for the Second Consecutive Year
For the second consecutive year, Retail Solutions was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in America. With a 3-year growth rate of 404%, Retail Solutions ranked #68 in the software category.
For more information, please read Retail Solutions’ profile on Inc. Magazine’s website.
August 2nd, 2011 (In the News)
A “How-To” Guide to Downstream Data in the Consumer Goods Industry
There is more downstream data being shared in the industry today than ever before. CPG leaders have now implemented downstream data programs covering tens of thousands of stores in the United States alone, with international markets the next frontier. If you are not part of this group, what should you look out for?
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March 29th, 2011 (Award, In the News)
Retail Solutions Recognized as one of the “Hottest Companies in Silicon Valley”
Retail Solutions is proud to be featured on Lead411’s 2010 list of the “Hottest Companies in Silicon Valley”, recognizing companies achieving 150% increase in revenues over the past 2 years with over $3M in revenues or receiving $11M+ in funding in the past 2 years. According to Lead411, an initial list of over 4,000 companies was narrowed to a shortlist of just over 100 companies.
March 16th, 2011 (In the News)
How a Crayfish Party Became a Great Deal
Retail Solutions on its way of becoming a USD 200m deal for Investor AB
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November 1st, 2010 (In the News)
Finance Monthly Feature Deals of the Month: Retail Solutions - Success is in Store
Retail Solutions, a Mountain View, Software-as-a-Service solution provider helping consumer goods manufacturers analyze point-of-sale data, has risen $15.2M in Series C funding. [...] The recent funding round was led by new backer Investor Growth Capital, with existing investors Venrock, Bessemer Venture Partners, Red Rock Ventures and SAP Ventures joining in.
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October 18th, 2010 (In the News)
Retail Solutions Knows What’s in Store for its 300 Customers
“For a large company like Procter & Gamble, what Retail Solutions Inc. does is like having a personal assistant in every supermarket across the country.”
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October 1st, 2010 (In the News, Webinar)
Creating One Version of the Truth: Key Takeaways from the 1st Annual Retailer/Supplier Shared Data Study
Jon Golovin, CEO and Chairman of Retail Solutions, will be participating to the upcoming Consumer Goods Technology/Retail Information Systems webinar, “Creating One Version of the Truth: Key Takeaways from the 1st Annual Retailer/Supplier Shared Data Study”.
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September 28th, 2010 (In the News)
Retail Solutions Lands $15M Round For New Retail Data
“In the last two or three years, there’s been a real momentum to retailers sharing this type of data” with consumer goods manufacturers, with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. leading the way, said Noah Walley, a managing director with Investor Growth Capital.
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September 20th, 2010 (In the News)
Emerson Is Catalyst as HBC Clients Work to Build Brands
“The data we manage with Retail Solutions enables us to drive best practices across the entire organization, no matter the product or the retailer, giving us a single way of working to support reaching the right decisions that will build brand equity for our customers.”
August 24th, 2010 (Award, In the News, Press Release)
Retail Solutions Named to 2010 Inc. 500 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies
Retail Execution Management Solution Provider Recognized for Three-Year Revenue Growth of 820.6%
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June 7th, 2010 (In the News)
Managing All the Way to the Retail Shelf
A new era of retail collaboration finds suppliers managing their products in a granular fashion, and responding instantly to any issues that might arise, says Cedric Guyot, vice president of marketing with Retail Solutions.
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April 7th, 2010 (In the News)
Consumer Goods Technology - “Between The Lines”: Jon Golovin
After years of waiting, Golovin explains why 2010 marks a visible change for the consumer goods industry when it comes to data sharing.
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February 10th, 2010 (In the News)
Vantage Point: What Digital Photography and Downstream Data Have in Common
Jon Golovin, CEO and Chairman of Retail Solutions, explores how downstream data provides cheap, unbiased and perpetual observers into every store - and the implications on the CPG-retail industry.
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November 30th, 2009 (In the News)
Food Lion’s Data and the Spider-Man Principle
Following the intervention by Troy Prothero of Food Lion at the 2010 Category Management Association Meeting, David Orgel, Editor-in-Chief for Supermarket News, gives his perspective on what it takes to build - and participate to - a downstream data sharing program.
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