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
News Center
As the uncontested leader and the fastest growing company in its market, Retail Solutions is often referred to in the press and analyst reports. The News Center contains our press releases as well as a selection of our most recent coverage by analysts and trade publications.
January 31st, 2012 (Case Study, In the News)
POS Drives Replenishment in Food Lion Test
January 4th, 2012 (Press Release)
Retail Solutions Announces Launch of a Supplier Data Sharing Program with Delhaize Belgium
“Vendor Pulse” Program Mirrors the Successful Implementation of Similar Program at Delhaize US, Focused on Improving Supplier Collaboration
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December 6th, 2011 (Press Release)
Robert Bosch Tool Corporation Implements Retail Solutions across Home Improvement and Mass Channels
Manufacturer Partners with Retail Solutions to Drive Insights from Data at Five Retailers in North America
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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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November 1st, 2011 (Press Release)
United Natural Foods Partners with Retail Solutions to Drive Insights from Retailer Data
America’s Premier Certified Organic Distributor to Leverage Retail Solutions to Power Retail Execution Management
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October 20th, 2011 (Award, Press Release)
Retail Solutions Ranked #93 Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2011 Technology Fast 500™
Attributes 5-year 1,111% Percent Revenue Growth to Enterprise-Level Adoption of its Solutions in the Consumer Goods Industry
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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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September 6th, 2011 (Press Release)
Retail Solutions Completes Merger with the Supplier-Focused Division of Retail Insight
Transaction to Consolidate Retail Solutions’ Global Leadership in Retail Execution Management – Retail Insight Retailer-Focused Division to Remain Independent
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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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July 19th, 2011 (Press Release)
Retail Solutions Activates 500th CPG Customer on its Retail Execution Management Platform
Company Sees Accelerating Demand for Downstream Data Management Services in Both North American and International Markets
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May 2nd, 2011 (Press Release)
Pharmavite Partners with Retail Solutions
Company to Deploy Retail Execution Management to Drive Retailer Insights
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April 12th, 2011 (Press Release)
Schneider Electric Selects Retail Solutions to Drive Joint Operations with Home Depot
Company to Leverage Retail Solutions Demographic Data to Drive Store Performance both at Headquarters and in the Field
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April 5th, 2011 (Press Release)
Kimberly-Clark Selects Retail Solutions to Power North America Retail Data Strategy
Company to Deploy Retail Execution Management across 19 Retailer Teams within 15 Months
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March 30th, 2011 (Press Release)
Southwire Company Selects Retail Solutions to Support its Home Depot Channel
Leading Wire and Cable Supplier to Leverage Retail Solutions Services to Increase Visibility into Sales at the Store Level in Near-Real Time
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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 22nd, 2011 (Press Release)
Welch’s Selects Retail Solutions to Turn Downstream Data into Value
Initial Retail Execution Management Program Priorities to Focus on Promotion Planning and Execution and Monitoring New Product Introductions
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