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How to Make Your Store Visits Useful & More Effective

Darren A. Smith

November 16, 2016

This article will help you to know How to Make Store Visits Useful: Since time and memorial Account Managers and…

What an Effective Category Manager Job Description Looks Like

Darren A. Smith

September 20, 2016

A Category Manager ultimately aims to meet the needs of their shoppers. This is the key part of a Category…

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Brainstorming Techniques for Category, Account, & NPD Managers

Darren A. Smith

September 14, 2016

Improve Your Brainstorming Sessions Wikipedia states that ‘brainstorming’ is a ‘group creativity technique by which efforts are made to find a conclusion…

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Understand How to Price Promotions More Effectively

Darren A. Smith

August 8, 2016

Supermarkets and suppliers know that promotions are a necessary evil. The more informed suppliers and supermarkets know that you can…

BBC Rip Off Britain Talks to Our Industry Expert & Founder

Darren A. Smith

May 9, 2016

MBM Speak to BBC Rip Off Britain BBC Rip Off Britain approached our Founder, Darren A. Smith, as an industry expert…

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How Suppliers Can Get the Most from Shopper Research

Darren A. Smith

April 1, 2016

Find out ‘How Suppliers Can Get the Most from Shopper Research’ in this article: As a proactive supplier to one…

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How to Quickly Achieve Chart Clarity, Not Chart Disparity

Andy Palmer

October 27, 2015

Achieve Chart Clarity in Today’s World of Category Management When using charts and graphs to paint a performance picture or…

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What is Category Management? How to Bake a Better Pie

Andy Palmer

August 28, 2015

Learn How to Bake a Better ‘Category’ Pie Category Management is a means of organising product groups to meet shopper…

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Category Management Scorecard: Give Your Category an MOT

Darren A. Smith

July 29, 2015

How to Give Your Category an MOT in 3 Steps with this Category Management Scorecard Our Management Category Scorecard tool,…

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2 Ways to Quantify a Category Sales Opportunity in Category Management

Darren A. Smith

July 29, 2015

2 Ways to Quantify an Opportunity in Category Management is for Category Managers, Account Managers and Buyers to be able…

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JBP: The Brave Approach to Writing a Joint Business Plan

Darren A. Smith

July 15, 2015

How you can take the Brave Approach to Writing a Joint Business Plan – JBP – with a UK Supermarket:…

10 Ways to Increase Profits on Supermarkets’ Promotion Plan

Darren A. Smith

May 20, 2015

10 Ways to Increase These Profits: Supermarkets and suppliers have promoted their products since time began. Unfortunately, promotions have always…