Transforming your syndicated data into business insight
Many people are familiar with the analysis known as a volume decomposition (or due-to) that uses POS data. This allows you to explain a change in sales and attribute gains and losses to specific business drivers like distribution, pricing, trade promotion and some other things. We have a series of posts on this, starting with […]
We hope you aren’t tired of reading about velocity! Velocity and distribution (which go hand in hand, as you’ll see below) are the topics we are asked about most often. We’ve reviewed our reader correspondence and pulled out a few more key points we wanted to share: Question 1: Is Velocity Independent of Distribution? Q. […]
We get a lot of questions from readers. Sometimes our answers touch on things we haven’t fully explored in our articles. We want everyone to benefit from these nuggets of information so decided to post a series of Q&A articles which will highlight some interesting correspondence. Our first post covers three questions on the always […]
Wow – it’s hard to believe we launched the CPG Data Tip Sheet 10 years ago this month. It is a decade later and we are very happy to thank our over 6,000 followers! In case you are relatively new to the CPG Data Tip Sheet, we went live the week of November 5, 2012 […]
It’s almost impossible to read anything in the business press these days without coming across the term “inflation” and hearing about which companies have announced price increases this week. (In case you missed them, here are posts that we did on inflation: from April and then a follow-up to a webinar we conducted in late […]
Last month, we were delighted to present a webinar through the Category Management Association. The webinar content was inspired by our inflation post from earlier this year. We wanted to share both the video replay and our slides from the CMA webinar. In addition, in preparing for the webinar, we had a few additional thoughts on […]
