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Picture This: Stacked Bar Chart, Cousin of the Pie Chart

January 6, 2014 By Robin Simon Leave a Comment

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As mentioned in a previous post, how you present your analysis is at least as important as the numbers themselves.  Using the right graphs is an essential element that helps you tell a story with your data, rather than just report a bunch of numbers. In this older post I talked about market share and […]

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For Aspiring CPG Data Gurus: Incremental Volume Unveiled

December 16, 2013 By Sally Martin 12 Comments

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If you are a CPG company with significant trade promotion spending, you probably already buy IRI/Nielsen data or are seriously considering it.   Both IRI and Nielsen measure Incremental Volume: how much extra volume you sold due to trade merchandising. If you’re not sure what incremental volume is, read this first.  If you’ve already got the […]

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3 Important Facts About Incremental Volume

December 2, 2013 By Sally Martin 8 Comments

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Trade promotion evaluation is a big selling point for Nielsen and IRI data.  Both vendors provide a key piece of the promotion evaluation puzzle: estimates of Incremental Volume.  Incremental Volume tells you how much extra volume you sold due to trade merchandising.  Here are a few things you should know about this important but sometimes […]

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Picture This: Market Share

November 11, 2013 By Robin Simon 3 Comments

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  How you present your analysis is at least as important as the numbers themselves.   One of the most basic measures to gauge how well your business is doing is share, what portion of category sales your brand accounts for.  Of course, higher is better and the sum of shares for all brands in […]

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Subsidized Sales: The Missing Link

October 28, 2013 By Sally Martin 27 Comments

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Do you debate which Circana/Nielsen measures to include in your trade promotion analysis?  To make the right choice, you need a clear understanding of both your business questions AND the measures themselves.  In my last post, I discussed the important distinction between presence measures and impact measures.  Now I’ll illustrate how these measures tie together […]

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Are You Getting Your Fair Share of Distribution?

October 14, 2013 By Robin Simon 9 Comments

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There may be an opportunity to increase sales at some retail customers by making sure that you are getting your fair share of distribution.  The basic concept is that if your brand has, say, a 25% share of category dollar sales then it should also have at least a 25% share of the category distribution. […]

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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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