CSP’s Category Management Handbook could not have happened without the invaluable data and resources offered by the companies on this page. A special thanks goes to IRI and the McLane Co. for the volume and depth of information they provided.
Sample Details
IRI
Chicago-based IRI’s AllScan sample represents more than 12,500 stores with scanning capability used to project coverage of the TDLinxdefined/NACS-endorsed channel of more than 151,000 independent and small to large chain stores.
McLane Co. Inc.
Temple, Texas-based McLane distributes to about 23,000 c-stores located throughout the United States. Shipment data represents average shipments per store per week from McLane warehouses to its entire c-store clientele base.
The Nielsen Co.
New York-based Nielsen’s Scantrack ConvenienceTrack sample projects to the TDLinx-defined/NACS-endorsed channel of more than 151,000 c-stores. According to Nielsen, the sample consists of thousands of chain, franchise and independent c-stores.
Thanks also to:
- Cardtronics, Houston
- Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Plano, Texas
- General Mills, Minneapolis
- The Hershey Co., Hershey, Pa.
- InComm, Atlanta
- Kellogg Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
- Link Snacks Inc., Minong, Wis.
- Management Science Associates Inc., Pittsburgh
- Mars Chocolate North America, Hackettstown, N.J.
- McKee Foods, Chattanooga, Tenn.
- Mintel Group, Chicago
- Nestlé Waters North America, Greenwich, Conn.
- The Nielsen Co., Schaumburg, Ill.
- Oberto Brands, Phoenix
- Packaged Facts, Rockville, Md.
- Scandinavian Tobacco Group Lane Ltd., Tucker, Ga.
- Scientific Games Corp., New York
- Swedish Match North America, Richmond, Va.
- Technomic Inc., Chicago
- U.S. Nutrition, a division of NBTY Inc., Bohemia, N.Y.
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