Recommended Links
GMDC recommends the following organizations and companies as helpful resources for our members:
Catalina Marketing is one of the global leaders in behavior-based marketing solutions, providing brand manufacturers, retailers and healthcare providers with targeted marketing solutions to meet growth objectives. Utilizing a sophisticated database, Catalina Marketing enables its customers to reach consumers and patients with precision targeting on a truly mass scale. Catalina Marketing is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Hamacher Resource Group provides marekting services and business intelligence exclusively for the retail healthcare market. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconson, with a subsidiary in the United Kingdom, Hamacher Resource Group serves manufacturers, retail pharmacies, technology partners and wholesalers across the US and the UK.
The Hartman Group specializes consumer insights and market research. It focuses on the analysis and interpretation of consumer lifestyles and how these lifestyles influence the purchase and use of today's products and services in tomorrow's marketplace. The Hartman Group also study consumers in their natural environments - their homes, their stores, their lives. While The Hartman Group is acknowledged as one of the premier provider of consumer insights in Health and Wellness, its innovative proprietary research techniques can be applied to a broad range of business initiatives. The Hartman Group is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.
Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) is one of the world's leading provider of enterprise market information solutions and services, empowering its clients to grow their business profitably in a complex marketplace. Driving the transformation of the consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail, and healthcare industries, IRI provides a unique combination of real-time market content, advanced analytics, enterprise performance management software, and professional services. IRI is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Meridian Consulting Group is a management consulting firm whose mission since 1991 has been to help its clients build sustainable competitive advantage through superior go-to-market capabilities that achieve consumer objectives through the customer. Meridian's practice areas include all aspects of retooling an organization for maximum in-market results. Its wide experience in strategy development, organization structure, planning processes and in market activation allow it to understand their customers' businesses holistically and ensure that its recommendations are appropriate for their clients' needs. Meridian consultants have experience with the top retail customers in virtually every established and emerging channel. Meridian Consulting Group is headquartered in Wilton, Connecticut.
NMI is a strategic consulting, market research, and business development company specializing in the health and wellness marketplace. Its dynamic capabilities focus on the well-being of people and products, and the environmentally and socially responsible sustainability of the planet. NMI is headquartered in Harleysville, Pennsylvania.
The Natural Products Association is one of the nation's largest and oldest non-profit organization dedicated to the natural products industry. The Natural Products Association represents more than 10,000 retailers, manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors of natural products, including foods, dietary supplements, and health/beauty aids. The Natural Products Association is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with additional presence in Santa Ana, California, and in China.
The Nielsen Company is one of the world's leading provider of marketing information, audience measurement, and business media products and services. By delivering a strong combination of insights, market intelligence, advanced analytical tools, and integrated marketing solutions, Nielsen provides clients with the most complete view of their consumers and their markets. Headquartered in New York, USA and Haarlem, The Netherlands, Nielsen operates in more than 100 countries with a global team dedicated to helping clients compete more effectively and discover opportunity with more clarity than ever before.
SPINS' comprehensive offerings include retail measurement services for the natural and conventional retail channels, consumer information and consulting services for this important sector. All of SPINS' services leverage its comprehensive Product Library, including product hierarchies, segmentation and attributes for over 400,000 UPC-coded items. SPINS is headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois.