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Insight Series

LumiData's Insight Series keeps you current with consumer product industry trends and innovative ways to use your downstream data.

We're sure you'll find our Insight Series to be very illuminating – offering you monthly perspectives, new techniques and best practices about how to leverage downstream data to your advantage. Each issue will help you become more productive, contribute more value to your organization and collaborate more effectively with your consumer goods retailer partner.

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03/02/2010
It's no secret that during the recession consumers have favored private label brands and discounted SKUs. Yet despite the general consumer perception that Wal-Mart is the "low-cost leader," Target outperformed Wal-Mart in the fourth quarter of 2009 with a 0.6% growth in sales, while Wal-Mart reported a 1.6% drop...

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01/22/2010

With more point-of-sale data at hand, retailers are moving beyond target markets and getting wise to buyer personas -a deeper understanding of customers based on characteristics such as gender, occupation, income, marital, parental or employment status...

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12/07/2009

As we examined last time, you've started to think beyond your aisle. You're utilizing either independent market research or market basket analysis to garner the shopper's point of view. And you have a new planogram in hand. Now what? How do you convince your retailer to initiate the planogram?

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11/03/2009

As category manager, you're charged with growing volume across brands and faced with ever-growing reams of demand data. It's pretty easy to get stuck in a rut, looking at the same data and using "tried and true" planograms. But stagnant planning can mean stagnant sales...

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10/07/2009

Inventory management is important to the availability of working capital, maintaining consumer satisfaction, optimizing inventory turnover, and ensuring good margins on sales. However, Aberdeen Research found that 70% of retailers rate themselves average or below average on their inventory management processes...

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07/31/2009
Face it, inventory stock issues can make or break you in such a hypersensitive recessionary climate. Underestimate the number of units you need for a promotion and you've lost sales opportunities and disappointed consumers. Overestimate and you're faced with stagnant inventory sitting on a shelf or within a distribution center for weeks or even months...

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06/08/2009

One of the challenges to growing your business is convincing retailers to introduce what's new –especially when they're comfortable with what they think "works"... 

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03/09/2009

Your recent promotional event was a success—wasn't it? If you're only looking at POS data for the specific items included in that event... 

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01/21/2009

Weakening consumer confidence is exacting its toll on retailers and suppliers who must respond to this decrease in sales volume....

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12/11/2008

A clear separation is evolving between consumer goods sales teams. Guess who's getting ahead....

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