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CHANGE IS IN THE AIR! In January, we completed a consulting role with Timex to help implement their core objective: to assist the organization in helping key retailers improve execution in their outlets. The success of this partnership speaks for itself! Our Account Management team spent an afternoon visiting a new Tesco Fresh & Easy store in Phoenix, AZ. As you all know, Tesco is projecting several hundred of these stores over the next five years. We thought it would be important to get a firsthand look at what kind of impact it might have on the marketplace. You will find our Team's review in this newsletter. Our Development Team has innovated a new system architecture that will enable future global deployment of client applications. Meanwhile, our Austin office boasts beautiful new furnishings, a more efficient floor plan, and a state-of-the-art conference center that will make our on-site meetings even more productive. We hope you are well on your way to achieving your company and individual goals for 2008. We appreciate the opportunity to help get you there! Happy Spring!
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Company News RW3 in the News Case Study |
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InSight Group » Applying innovative and flexible technology to make better
business decisions
» Transforming data into actionable intelligence
» Understanding mass data integration options
» Dashboards, Alerts, EARs, and more
Participants also heard first hand from Guest Speaker, Don Turano (VP Sales, Timex Corporation) how Timex has directly impacted its ROI by learning to manage and understand their POS data.
The meeting was a great success, generating a plethora of ideas for individual retail strategies, as well as a wider understanding of the possibilities for utilizing data sources in impacting a company’s ROI.
“The Summit provided an outstanding forum for a potential new client, such as Pharmavite, to meet the people of RW3 and to understand their capabilities to provide business solutions for our company. It was an extremely effective use of my time for an initial meeting.” – Dave Larson, Divisional VP, National Accounts, Pharmavite
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RW3 was honored in the January 2008 edition
of Consumer Goods Technology "Reader’s Choice
& Editor’s Pick – Best in Class Solution & Service
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ConAgra Shifts Focus and Reaps the Benefits! ConAgra also identified a need for better focus and retail effectiveness at Wal-Mart, and has hired a Direct Retail Team to call on WM Stores in Texas. RW3 designed an InStore Mobile Application that allows communication to and from the Team, helping them to identify and correct physical inventory and promotional issues, and to sell new product. The Direct Retail Team launched in January 2008 with RW3 providing the solution to support the identification of in-store issues, deliver those to the field in an intuitive manner and measure successful fixes. In addition, RW3’s InSight Group designed a set of reports that allows ConAgra to measure and quantify the effectiveness of the Direct Retail Team. Both ConAgra and RW3 are pleased with the early results and ROI. The Direct Retail Team is able to collect sales as well as distribution gains and gaps. More to come as this Team gets further time on the street! Back to Top InSights at Tesco's Fresh & Easy
Scottsdale, AZ – February 2008 You’ve heard the saying “be a good neighbor”. That is exactly what Tesco’s new US Fresh & Easy store is shooting to be. They care about the environment, and are showing this by including energy efficient equipment in their stores and operations. And since they are a neighborhood market, they reduce travel time, recruit from the local area, source fresh produce & meats locally whenever possible, and encourage neighborhood shopping. Consumer Insights RW3’s Account Manager Team visited a Scottsdale, AZ Fresh
& Easy Neighborhood Market in February 2008. Following is a
summary of their collective observations and insights. _________________________________________________________________________ Gearing Up for Global Development by Mark Gruetzner, Director of Development In order to accommodate requests by key customers to be able to support a Global deployment of an InStore solution, RW3’s Development Team is defining and implementing a new system architecture. The goal is to develop a flexible and responsive architecture that meets the need for an underlying consistent technology platform, while being easy to maintain and support, as well as adaptable to the individual go-to-market needs of business units and different countries. In addition, the new architecture will be designed to easily add language support for any required country group which is added into the environment. Read
more »» What's New in Bentonville? With a continually increasing customer base in the Bentonville market, we have "grown" our local team to include Dan Byer, Project Manager for the InSight Group. Dan has joined Jenny Lorenzo to open a new corporate office, conveniently located in "Village on the Creeks" in the Pinnacle Hills area of Rogers, AR. Doors opened in March; stop by when you are in the area, and be sure to keep an eye out for our grand opening "Open House" sometime in late Spring. To contact Jenny or Dan, please call (479) 273-1297. _________________________________________________________________________ RW3... Insights. Innovation. Real World Solutions. Upcoming
Events GMA ISLD Conference – March 30-April 2,
2008; Rancho Mirage, CA If you would like more information or to make an appointment to meet with us during one of these events, please email us or call 800-444-5793. |
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