Kantar Retail Forms Leading Retail Insights and Consulting Business
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| Contact Details |
| Name : Carmen Roets |
| Company : Kantar Retail |
| Phone :+27 11 367 9608 |
| Email : Carmen.Roets@Kantarretail.com |
| URL : www.kantarretail.com |
Glendinning Management Consultants, Cannondale Associates, MVI (Management Ventures, Inc.), and Retail Forward have combined operations to create Kantar Retail (www.kantarretail.com), the world’s leading retail insights and consulting business. Each of these businesses is renowned for its unique capabilities and best-in-class tools utilized by the world’s leading retailers, manufacturers, consulting organizations and retail services firms.
Kantar Retail, a WPP company, unifies the strengths and diverse talents of four specialist companies to become the pre-eminent provider of transformational insights, strategic consulting and capabilities-building for the global retail marketplace. With 400 employees across 15 global markets, Kantar Retail provides the world’s leading retailers and manufacturers a broad spectrum of proprietary tools, capabilities and training platforms that deliver competitive advantage, enhance revenue and profitability, and fundamentally transform the behaviour of consumers, shoppers and retailers. The company is a strategic partner to more than 300 clients, many of which are Fortune 500 companies.
In South Africa, Glendinning Management Consultants will continue to operate under the Glendinning name for the foreseeable future, but with new branding to reflect the Kantar relationship.
“We are very excited about the future of Kantar Retail,” said Wayne Levings, Chief Executive Officer. “Winning at retail and with shoppers are key challenges facing our clients and critical imperatives for the leadership teams of their organizations, particularly in today’s increasingly competitive global environment. By providing our clients with access to breakthrough retail and shopper insights, industry-leading tools, best-in-class capabilities and training programs under one umbrella, Kantar Retail is uniquely positioned to help our clients achieve competitive advantage in the marketplace and ensure they are optimally positioned for the future,” he adds.
Carmen Roets, director of Glendinning Africa, agreed, saying, “South Africa’s complex retail environment means we have to help clients with some pretty challenging issues. Our local experience combined with access to this global consolation of insight, thinking, strategy and tools means we can now offer clients unparalleled support in finding the right solution to the issues that keep them up at night. In particular, our local clients’ will benefit from our global experience in building capability and skills, providing best-in-class shopper expertise and in sales and marketing organisation design.”
Kantar Retail’s globally integrated service offer enables clients to partner with one firm to create synergies and strategic alignment across multiple teams and functions from consumer and shopper insights and category management to brand strategy, retail marketing and field sales teams. The company is able to affect tangible transformation for its clients through a unique combination of services that moves information to insight and strategy to execution.
About Kantar Retail
Kantar Retail (www.kantarretail.com) is a global retail insights and consulting business that works with clients to transform the behaviour of consumers, shoppers and retailers. Kantar Retail serves the world’s leading retailers and manufacturers and has offices in 15 markets around the globe. By combining the resources of Cannondale, Glendinning, MVI and Retail Forward, the company solves client issues from tactical to strategic and provides organizations with the skills and capabilities to act. Kantar Retail offers clients better internal alignment and project efficiency, from insight through strategy to activation, and across marketing through category management to sales. Kantar Retail is headquartered in London and is part of the Kantar Group of WPP.
For more information about Kantar Retail and its services, contact Katherine Clarke, Vice President of Marketing, at 614.355.4009 or Katherine.clarke@kantarretail.com and visit us online at www.kantarretail.com to download a complimentary copy of Kantar Retail’s Breakthrough Insights: The Way Forward.
About Kantar
Kantar is one of the world's largest insight, information and consultancy networks. By uniting the diverse talents of its 13 specialist companies, the group aims to become the pre-eminent provider of compelling and inspirational insights for the global business community. Its 26,500 employees work across 95 countries and across the whole spectrum of research and consultancy disciplines, enabling the group to offer clients business insights at each and every point of the consumer cycle. The group’s services are employed by over half of the Fortune Top 500 companies.
For further information, please visit us at www.kantar.com
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