Customer-Focused Strategy
              To Create Shareholder Value

Our Mission

  • Customer-focused Research and Analysis
  • Consumer and Retail Insight and Strategy

Our Clients

  • Retail
  • Energy
  • Entertainment/Media
  • Financial Services
  • Tech/Telecom

Our Reputation

  • Integrity. Insight. Results.

Our Recognition

Print

  • Business Week
  • Chain Store Age
  • Energy Marketing
  • Forbes
  • Fortune  
  • Internet Retailer 
  • Los Angeles Times
  • New York Times
  • Nikkei  
  • Retail Bulletin (UK)
  • The Times (UK) 
  • USA Today 
  • Washington Post
  • Wall St. Journal

Electronic

  • ABC
  • BBC (UK)
  • Bloomberg
  • Business Week TV
  • CNBC
  • CNN
  • MarketWatch
  • NBC
  • NHK (Tokyo)
  • Reuters
  • The Street.com

Published
Articles/Op-Eds

  • Barron’s
  • Cellular Business
  • Chain Store Age
  • Chicago Tribune
  • Force (Canada)
  • Los Angeles Times
  • Nihon Sangyo Shimbum
  • New York Times
  • Public Utilities Fortnightly
  • Stores Magazine (NRF)

Our Fact Base

End-Consumers

  • Quantitative Research
  • Advanced Qualitative
  • Proprietary Data

--Actionable Insight

Trade Customers

  • Retailers
  • Service Companies
  • Developers

--Actionable Strategy

Our Insights and Expertise

  • Emerging Consumer Trends--and their impact on manufacturers and retailers
  • Baby Boomer Needs and Preferences--ranging from health & wellness to "sandwich generation" financial planning
  • Non-traditional Channel Planning--including Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) and Internet strategies
  • Retail Location Strategies--Mall vs. Off-Mall, Lifestyle, Street and Mixed-Use development alternatives
  • Japan and Asia/Pacific Markets--including market penetration, Joint Venture, and retail/channel strategies
  • Innovation Strategy and Execution--customer-focused innovation planning, based on "outside-in" insights
  • Due Diligence/Expert Witness--Consumer/Retail, Pricing and Competitor analysis and testimony
  • Investment Implications--and Opportunities

 

 

 

Our Focus