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% Stores Selling (PSS)

July 1, 2012 By Robin Simon Leave a Comment

Percent of Stores Selling is also called Numeric Distribution (especially outside of North America).  Within a given geography the % of stores where a product has scanned.  For example, if Retailer X has 90 stores and Brand A sold in 72 of those stores then % Stores Selling = 72/90 = 80%.  While this is […]

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% Subsidized Volume

July 1, 2012 By Robin Simon 5 Comments

Portion sold on promotion that would have been sold anyway.  This can be expressed as what percent of promoted was subsidized or what percent of total sales.  Calculated as (Promoted Sales – Incremental Sales) / Promoted Sales OR (Promoted Sales – Incremental Sales) / Total Sales.  Lower is better.  The Efficiency measure is a related […]

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Absolute Change (Abs Chg)

July 1, 2012 By Robin Simon Leave a Comment

Usually calculated as (this year – year ago).  Can be used for all measures.

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Absolute Discount

July 1, 2012 By Robin Simon 2 Comments

Amount that the promoted price is below the regular price, expressed in dollars or cents.  Calculated as (Base Price – Promoted Price).  Note that a 10¢ discount could be 8% in one year but 7% the next year if the base price increased in the second year.

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Any Merchandising

July 1, 2012 By Robin Simon Leave a Comment

See Any Promotion

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Any Promotion

July 1, 2012 By Robin Simon 2 Comments

Stores that have either Display, Feature, TPR or any combination of these merchandising conditions at any point during a specific period are counted in measures with “Any Promo.” In Nielsen/IRI, the term “Promo” is comparable to “Merchandising”.  So % Dollars Any Promo is equivalent to % Dollars Any Merchandising. Reference articles: Beginner’s Guide to Trade […]

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We (Sally Martin and Robin Simon) first met in business school and bonded over our interest in geeky marketing stuff. Eventually we both started independent consulting practices. Now we’ve reunited to share with you some of what we’ve learned in our decades of experience working with syndicated CPG data.

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