News and Events

Retail Express Announces new analytical and science service for Retailer's	11/08/11
Retail Express have recognised the opportunity to provide a more granular Price Optimisation/Category optimisation and analytics service to Retail Category teams, to help/assist/investigate difficult categories and to provide help where it is most needed on a short term or continuous basis – without the need to commit the whole business or contract for multiple periods. Click to find out more

Lancaster University Forecasting with Promotions – Half day event in London:

08/10/10

Barry Grange CEO of Retail Express will be one of the keynote speakers at the University of Lancaster's half day event in London on 14th October, 2pm-6pm. The event will cover different aspects of the challenges in promotional forecasting & evaluation for supply chain management, which badly affects retailers and manufacturers alike. The event will kick off with Prof. Robert Fildes, director of the Lancaster Centre for Forecasting, with an overview of current practices and research in promotional forecasting. Attendance at this event is FREE but places are limited

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Webinar:- Managing promotions and their effectiveness:

08/10/10

Time: - 3pm 28 Oct for 45minutes

Length: – 35minutes for demonstration and presentation and 10minutes for questions

Predicting the customer response from promotions and advertising continues to be a major headache for most retailers, making promotions much less effective than they should be. The increasing diversity of promotions, be they BOGO's, price discounts, coupons, meal deals, loyalty points, staggered or tiered discounts, blind offers etc., makes it much more difficult for the Category Manager, Merchandise Manager or Buyer to predict sales and profits. Add to that the growing use of...

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Webinar:- Price optimization:

08/10/10

Time: - 3pm 11 Nov for 45minutes

Length: – 35minutes for demonstration and presentation and 10minutes for questions

In retail the overriding business requirement is to consistently gain profitable sales whilst achieving budgets, satisfying customers and maintaining or increasing market share, whilst enhancing brand value and reputation. In today's fast moving competitive markets retailers need to strategically position themselves on price and assortment to create a "go to market offer" that supports their business goals. Every Day Low Price and Hi Lo would be two typical examples of such strategies, although many retailers now even blend those very distinct marketing concepts...

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Retail Express is pleased to announce the release of AMP2 3.7:

29/10/09

AMP2 3.7 is available for immediate implementation offering an enhanced user experience with flexibility and usability being key features of this new release. Among the enhancements this new release brings are additional functions in areas such as forecasting, model building and data refining, Media Management and export, category management and offer functionality and item visibility.

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