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Equivalized (EQ) Sales

July 1, 2012 By Robin Simon 4 Comments

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Physical volume of product sold at retail expressed in a common unit relevant to the category.  Use when comparing products of different sizes.  Some common EQ units are pounds (LBS), gallons, ounces, cases.  Most often used by Operations, also by Marketing and Sales. Reference articles: How Do I Calculate EQ Sales, Ways To Measure Sales.

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FDMx

July 1, 2012 By Robin Simon 2 Comments

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One of the geographies available from IRI, it stands for “Food-Drug-Mass excluding Walmart” (and is now known as “AOC” in Nielsen).  It includes the following channels:  Food/Grocery, Drug, Mass Merchandisers excluding Walmart. See also AOC.

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Feature

July 1, 2012 By Robin Simon 4 Comments

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Retail merchandising condition executed by retailers and measured by going through newspapers and flyers.  A Feature is a printed ad vehicle distributed by the retailer usually weekly,  via newspapers, direct mail or in-store.  Most commonly used is Feature without Display.  Any Feature (with or without a Display) and Feature only (without a price cut) are […]

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Incremental Sales

July 1, 2012 By Robin Simon 2 Comments

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Key measure of what you received for trade dollars spent.  Extra amount that was sold because there was merchandising.  Drivers of incremental volume are the quantity and quality of merchandising support.  Note that not all promoted volume is incremental – see Merchandising Efficiency.  Derived as (Total Sales – Base Sales). Reference articles: Incremental Volume Unveiled, […]

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Lift

July 1, 2012 By Robin Simon 2 Comments

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% increase in sales (in $ or volume) obtained due to retailer merchandising.  Calculated as (Incremental/Base) x 100. This is a good article to start understanding promotion metrics and lift in syndicated data. We have lots of other articles on this topic! Check the tags and categories for more.

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Market Share

July 1, 2012 By Robin Simon 2 Comments

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Key measure of performance vs. the competition.  How much  category or segment sales are captured.  Calculated as (Brand Sales / Category Sales).  Can also have different things in the numerator (flavors, sizes, health breaks, etc.) or the denominator (segment, etc.).

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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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