The CPG Guys, PVSB and Sri are joined in this episode by Sarah Alter, The President & CEO of NextUp, formerly known as Network of Executive Women, whose mission is to advance all women in business

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Sarah answers these questions:

1) I mentioned that NextUp was a creation of thought leaders within the CPG Retail industry. Would you please walk us through the origins of NextUp and dimensionalize the current size of NextUp in terms of membership, geographic scope, industry verticals, etc.?
2) What are some of the core issues women face in the workplace that NextUp is seeking to address through your resources & activities? How do you measure the impact that you have on these issues?
3) How do companies partner with NextUp and what can they offer to their employees through the partnership? Can individuals join NextUp absent a corporate partnership?
4) You publicly state that men are important partners in realizing the mission of NEW. Please expand on this if you would. How can women enlist men to advance the cause?
5) Let’s explore the networking component of NextUp. Would you dimensionalize why networking is such an important enabling culture to achieve your stated mission and what are some of the core ways that NextUp fosters networking at the community level?
6) What are your members asking NextUp to start tackling from an issues or resources perspective that have you focused on the growth of NextUp?
7) As we mentioned earlier, NextUp has recently announced a major rebranding. What was the motivation behind this effort and what does it mean for your community?
8) Tell us about your radio show & podcast “Advancing All Women.” What types of issues do you explore and where are you sourcing your guests? How is the NextUp community responding to it?

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The CPG Guys, PVSB and Sri are joined in this episode by Mark Detelich Chief Product Officer and Pat Niersbach SVP of Marketing at Syndigo, the first “active content engine” that enables its customers to rapidly assess and modify content to optimize performance using Syndigo’s unique integration of analytics throughout the entire product lifecycle.

This episode is sponsored by Syndigo.

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Mark & Pat answer these questions:

1) Why is content an important part of omnichannel commerce and why are brands and retailers finding it challenging to manage content at the speed of today’s commerce?
2) How do brands build trust with their retail customers through accurate & complete product data?
3) PIMs, DAMs & MDMs: what are they and how can they create friction in data governance? What is the solution?
4) The product content that appears on retail sites is not natively developed by each retailer, it is sourced from brands through syndication. But every channel has different data requirements, and content changes continually. How does Syndigo help solve for this reality?
5) Engaging experiences are essential to building customer loyalty and winning the sale both online and in-store. Mark, how should brands be focused on enabling this through product data?
6) How do product data analytics and understanding of shopper behavior help improve content that drives conversion?
7) Syndigo has recently revealed a new visual brand identity centered around being the first Active Content Engine that powers the continual flow of data and content throughout the entire commerce ecosystem. Help our audience understand this in the context of everything we have been discussing so far.
8) Why should brands, retailers and distributors of all sizes be invested in active content and how should they get started?

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The CPG Guys, PVSB and Sri are joined in this episode by Mike Harp, Head of Brand & Agency Partnerships at Gopuff, the go-to solution for immediate everyday needs, fulfilling customer orders in just minutes.

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Learn about the Gopuff ad platform at: http://gopuff.com/go/ads
 
Mike answers these questions:

1) Before we dive into the more detailed questions, can you give us a quick refresher on Gopuff? What sets you apart, and give us a sense of scale, where’s the company at today?
2) In June of last year, you formally introduced the Gopuff Ad platform. Would you walk us through each of the assets that brands can choose to invest against in reaching Gopuff shoppers, including sponsor product ads & sponsored search ads?
3) How much of your platform is self-serve to the brand and what types of consulting support does your team afford to brands looking to invest in Gopuff Ads?
4) What did the launch of Gopuff Ad Solutions and a self-serve platform enable that working only directly with brands wouldn’t? Are there specific use cases that you can point to that illustrate the value-add? 
5) Would you please walk us through the major campaign reporting metrics you offer to brands? (ROAS, Maximum Spend Value, Max CPC, Aki, etc.) and what do you offer brands seeking to measure true incrementality? How do you advise brands to sequentially invest against your ad platform, you know: first dollar, second dollar, third dollar, and how do you help them do this is an efficient and effective manner?
6) Where has Gopuff been focusing on expanding the advertising solutions for brands and agencies looking to engage Gopuff shoppers?
7) What’s next? Where is Gopuff going?
8) Share how brands are getting ROI and what’s the success of your platform?

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The CPG Guys, PVSB are joined in this episode by Disha Gulati, Founder & CEO of Here Here Market, a hyper-local hospitality marketplace helping create memorable food and beverage experiences and curated e-commerce solutions. Its mission is to democratize industry access and opportunity by connecting local talent directly with consumers.

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Disha answers these questions:

1) Deloitte, University of Chicago, Mondelez analytics, 1871 to founder - how does this happen? What’s the story?
2) How was here here founded? Who is your team and what are you focused on developing and delivering?
3) Who can sell on the marketplace and how do they join? What support can they expect from you?
4) Talk to us about building and retaining audiences - and what ‘localvore’ means?
5) How do you and the team go about finding products for the marketplace? Are you constantly out and about scouting for the right set of products? How do you then select what belongs vs not?
6) Moving from Fortune 500 to startup is not easy. Give us the trials and tribulations of the journey? What do we not know about how hard this is? What’s your advice for others who want to take this path?
7) For a market to succeed, advertising, branding and creativity is a must. Tell us about your role in a creator community and collaboration that delivers for your shoppers?
8) As we ask all founders on this show - what’s next and how does the market scale from local to national?

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The CPG Guys, PVSB are joined in this episode by Grant Steadman, North America President & Eric Karlson, Director of Strategy & Insights at dunnhumby, the global leader in Customer Data Science, empowering businesses everywhere to compete and thrive in the modern data-driven economy.

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Grant & Eric speak about the recently-released 5th annual U.S. Retailer Preference Index Report. Find it here: https://www.dunnhumby.com/resources/reports/customer-first/en/5th-annual-us-retailer-preference-index/

They answer these questions:

1) What is the purpose of the RPI and what are the core data components & methodology that lead to the results? Why is dunnhumby well-positioned to publish this research?
2) This is the 3rd year for RPI in the U.S. What’s different about this year’s report from a design perspective and what drove the changes?
3) What were the top finds from this year’s RPI? What mattered the most to shoppers and how is that different than last year?
4) We see some familiar names on the list of highly regarded retailers, Amazon, HEB, Wegmans. One surprise to us was actually Market Basket, a regional New England retailer not known for being an omnichannel powerhouse. What made them stand out?
5) Some of the retailers that didn’t fare as well in this year’s RPI still had record years for revenue growth. How should we reconcile this? Why did EDLP retailers not score as highly in the RPI?
6) Retailers with strong omnichannel digital capabilities scored highly. Amazon Fresh jumped up a few notches. Is digital a key momentum driver in this RPI analysis? Why?
7) Regional/super-regional retailers seemed to outperform the big national players. What would the RPI tell us about this?
8) How did omnichannel retailers operating their own eCommerce platform perform compared to those who operate through 3rd party marketplaces? What are some lessons from your findings?

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The CPG Guys, PVSB and Sri are joined in this episode by Jason Villano, Global Head of CPG strategy, and Kash Kasinarasimhan, Principal for CPG Strategy at Tredence, a provider of AI consulting & advanced prescriptive analytics that harmonizes data and humanizes experience to help companies efficiently accelerate their smart investments in AI.

This is the first in a 2-episode partnership with Tredence.

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Jason & Kash answer these questions:

1) Tell us about Tredence, how the journey started & where you are as a company today? 
2) How is Tredence helping the CPG industry with AI/How is Tredence differentiating itself in a crowded marketplace? 
3) You're talking to CPGs daily, what are you seeing as the biggest opportunities in the industry? 
4)Let's talk a bit more about the two opportunities that may be on our audiences' mind, OSA & RGM.  What is Tredence doing differently within OSA?
5) OSA is front & center within the day to day, so pivoting to RGM how is Tredence making an impact on the back end of the business? 
6) You say Prescriptive, what does that really mean?
7) You spoke earlier about the 3 As, how is Tredence breaking those barriers?
8) What can we expect next from Tredence?

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The CPG Guys, Sri & PVSB, are joined in this episode by Fahad Khawaja,  President & CMO of Hue, a social impact organization that exists to build equity and prosperity, for the health and wealth of our communities. They aim to amplify the voices of people of color in marketing, to increase our visibility, and to pave a path to help us all rise.

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Fahad answers these questions:

1)  You went to school at NYU, then J&J, Grove and Adweek - a full fledged marketer. Decompose this for our audience and tell us how all this change came to be.
2) What is Hue? Who does Hue focus on and why now? What void is being filled?
3) How are you working to lead Hue up front? What is your specific role? What does a member do vs a supporter?
4) Unsafe, unheard, unvalued…it’s the tag line associated with your state of inequity report. What is the focus of this report? Why do we need this now more than ever? How do you go about collecting data and making this available?
5) How are you focused on building a team and growing Hue?
6) What is Hue’s key message for employers? What is that very same message for associates?
7) What is your advice for the CPG industry on diversity & inclusion? Will change and transformation prevail?
8) The pandemic has obviously changed human behavior it seems, particularly with respect to comity or considerate interactions between different ethnic, gender & marginalized communities - do you agree. In the role you play, how are you responding to this and preparing for the transformation?

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The CPG Guys, PVSB are joined in this episode by Bryan Gildenberg, SVP of Commerce at Omnicom Commerce Group.

Bryan speaks with PVSB about key learnings from the 2022 CES and NRF Big Show events.

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The CPG Guys, Sri & PVSB, are joined in this episode by Nancy Winé, VP of Advertising Sales for 84.51˚, a retail data science, insights and media company that helps the Kroger company, CPGs, agencies, publishers and affiliated partners create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase. Powered by cutting edge science, they leverage 1st party retail data from nearly 1 of 2 US households and 2BN+ transactions to fuel a more customer-centric journey utilizing 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and their retail advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.

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Nancy answers these questions:

1)  Can you help bring us up to speed on what 84.51 has been up to since it was established in 2015?
2) Please dimensionalize the data asset that 84.51 is managing for Kroger. How many customers? % of spend captured with HH identification? Average # of transactions and the like. What does this all mean for brands seeking to leverage your capabilities to efficiently engage Kroger customers?
3) Why is purchasing behavior a superior way to target customers for messaging…better than demographics and even search terms in many cases?
4) Looking at your on-site retail media, what are the offerings that brands can leverage and what are the targeting capabilities? What type of auction system do you offer for featured search? How does your team assist brands in their investment strategies?
5) What is Kroger Stratum and how do brands working with Kroger leverage this to inform their targeting efforts through Kroger Precision Marketing?
6) Recently, Kroger announced the introduction of its new Private Marketplace for offsite targeted messaging. Would you please walk us through how this supports brand tech stacks in serving up personalized media?
7) How does Kroger/84.51 deliver ROI measurement to all of your retail media solutions, on & off-site?
8) What is the best way for brands of any size to get into Kroger’s retail media solutions?

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The CPG Guys, Sri & PVSB, are joined in this episode by Joe Davis, VP North America eCommerce at The Coca-Cola Company, the world's most iconic brand and manufacturer of beverages loved by generations. 

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Joe answers these questions:

1)  The pandemic has transformed the way Americans of all ages and incomes conduct grocery shopping. What are the key capabilities that you are seeking to enable the Coca-Cola system with why do you see these capabilities to be so essential to driving success?
2) What do you see as the most important needs that your retail partners are looking for Coca-Cola to bring to their digital customer engagement strategies?
3) How does your team remain focused on building sustainable capabilities that matter?  4) You’re likely presented with a myriad of solution options that, to a degree, evaluate with long-term skepticism.
4) Retail media is a growing channel in activating across the customer journey. Is funding a trade function, a brand function or a mixture? How do you judiciously allocate your investments to deliver measurable ROI in search for the organization?
5) What are the content levers you optimize that enable Coca-Cola products to appear at the top of organic search results?
6) How does your team play in ensuring that supply chain demands for eCommerce across the system are fully optimized for success?
7) Coca-Cola has a substantial position in foodservice channel. What are the demands for eCommerce capabilities in foodservice and how does your team support those demands?
8) What are the 2 or 3 trends in omnichannel consumer grocery shopping that have you thinking about where Coca-Cola needs to be delivering capabilities to win with your consumers in the immediate and near term future?

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