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Consumer and retail analytics firm cited for best-in-class for analytics, analytics visualization and dashboard

Shelton, CT – September 7, 2016 –TABS Analytics, a leading consumer and retail analytics firm, was named by the Promotion Optimization Institute’s 2016 POI TPx Vendor Panorama as a best-in-class vendor for analytics, analytics visualization and dashboard.  The 2016 POI TPx Vendor Panorama is a detailed analysis of the trade promotion management/optimization market to help consumer goods companies to successfully execute trade promotions at the headquarters level.

Overall softening in vitamin sales due to fewer heavy buyers may spell trouble for growth ahead; Walmart, Target, Walgreens, Rite Aid, and Sam’s slip

Shelton, Conn. – May 25, 2016 – The online retail channel is the top outlet for sales of vitamin and mineral and supplements (VMS), hitting $2 billion and surpassing Walmart’s vitamin sales of $1.7 billion in 2016, according to the 2016 TABS Analytics Vitamin and Minerals Supplements study. Vitamin specialty, which includes Vitamin Shoppe and GNC, ($1.5 billion); Costco ($1.3 billion); and CVS ($1.2 billion) round out the next three largest outlets for annual VMS sales. TABS found that VMS sales were up three percent compared to 2015 and were being driven primarily by increases in pricing. TABS Analytics estimates the annual U.S. VMS retail market to be $12.8 billion.

Shelton, Conn. – TABS Analytics announced that the company’s 2016 Baby Products U.S. Market study found that online sales account for 20 percent of all sales in the $30 billion baby products market. The online share of baby products sales is 10 times higher than the online share consumables sales for consumer packaged goods as measured by TABS in its Third Annual Consumer Value Study of Consumables. Amazon, Walmart.com and Target.com lead all online retailers representing 75 percent of online baby product sales.

Marks Fourth year in a row that TABS Analytics has been selected for Business Intelligence, including reporting, analytics, data mining and data warehousing

Shelton, CT – February 2, 2016 –TABS Analytics, the leading outsourced sales and marketing analytics firm in the consumer packaged goods industry, announced today that the company has been named for the fourth year in a row as one of the top business intelligence providers by Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) annual Readers’ Choice Awards. 

New brand identity reflects company’s longstanding expertise in sales and marketing analytics for consumer packaged goods companies

Shelton, CT – January 8, 2016 –TABS Group, the leading outsourced sales and marketing analytics firm in the consumer packaged goods industry, has changed its name to TABS Analytics, the company announced today. The new name aligns with the company’s longstanding mission to simplify and improve sales and marketing analytics for consumer package goods companies.  

Mac, Urban Decay closing in on Estee Lauder and Clinique; Target gaining; sales shifting to Ulta and Sephora in specialty channel; online losing share

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TABS Group announced today that the company’s second annual U.S. Cosmetics Study found that millennial women (ages 18 to 34) are the heaviest buyers of beauty products in the $13 billion dollar cosmetics market (market size excludes skin care and hair care products). Millennials are twice as likely to be heavy buyers (defined as purchasing more than 10 types of products a year) and account for 47 percent of all heavy buyers. The study also found that higher income correlated to likelihood of being a heavy cosmetics buyer. Within the 13 percent of the population with income of $125,000 or more per year, 39 percent of millennial women are heavy buyers, compared to 29 percent of the population buying cosmetics.

TABS Group Study on Food and Beverage Consumables Finds Discount Grocery a Major Force in Canadian Retail

Discount grocery in Canada is twice the market share as in the U.S. and online shopping is a non-factor with a 1.3 percent share according to new TABS Group study

Decrease in promotional deals causing consumers to flee, households with children still life blood of consumer packaged goods industry not millennials, online sales stagnant 

Shelton, CT – September 30, 2015 –The TABS Group “Third Annual Consumer Value Study of Consumables” found a significant four percent decline in reported purchase transactions over 2014 across 11 out of 15 consumer packaged goods (CPG) categories. Carbonated beverages, cereal, and cookies saw the sharpest declines of eight percent each. Yogurt, ice cream and frozen pizza also experienced sharp declines, sliding 6 percent over 2014. Out of the 15 categories surveyed, only water saw a robust growth of four percent.

Market guide created for CIOs and IT leaders to help business partners understand technology's role for trade promotion management and optimization 

Shelton, CT – September 2, 2015 – TABS Group, a leading consumer and retail analytics firm, announced today that it has been included as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner “Market Guide for Trade Promotion Management and Optimization” by Dale Hagemeyer.  In this report, Gartner profiles the TPM and TPO marketplace and the representative vendors in it. The guide was created for CIOs and IT leaders to use to help them inform business partners of technology's role in trade promotion. Gartner research has found that Consumer goods manufacturers spend upward of 25% of revenue on trade promotions — and more each year.

Shelton, CT – May 20, 2015 – Although the total of all online sales of vitamins, minerals and supplements (VMS) continues to outstrip all specific brick and mortar outlets, Amazon and other online retailers saw a share drop in category sales for the first time in eight years according to a survey by the TABS Group. In the “Eighth Vitamin and Sports Nutrition Study,” TABS Group found VMS sales were up 3 percent versus 2014 levels, and were being driven by gains in mass market outlets particularly from Walmart, Costco and Rite Aid. TABS Group estimates the US retail market size of VMS at $11.8 billion annually.