Emnos and TPG to present the new retail and consumer goods industry collaboration model at Brussels’ ECR Europe Conference

Munich, Brussels, April 4th, 2011

Understanding and influencing shopper behaviour has become an essential priority for retailers and suppliers in today’s economic and competitive environment. Shopper Marketing is the tool to accomplish this. The “Consumer & Shopper Journey insight model” from ECR Europe is the new engine for innovative value creation between retailers and suppliers of any size and level of sophistication.

Emnos and The Partnering Group (TPG), working in collaboration with ECR Europe and a group of senior executives from the retail and consumer goods industry, have led the development of an integrated solution to deliver the benefits of Shopper Marketing. This is the Consumer & Shopper Journey Framework. “The next wave in the evolution of retail marketing is Shopper Marketing driven off of a foundation of integrated consumer and shopper insights. The Consumer & Shopper Journey Framework provides the foundation model and tools for delivering on this promise”, says Thierry Afrigan, Carrefour’s Global Customer Marketing Director. On the supplier side, Paolo Zazzi – Barilla’s Senior Manager for Customer Marketing – believes that the “rapid changes in people behaviour require deep comprehension on the Consumer & Shopper Journey. Only leveraging on those insights we could upgrade our marketing propositions by addressing target shoppers and developing relevant shopping solutions.”

The new Consumer & Shopper Journey Framework will be published as a digital ”Blue Book” and made available to the industry starting with the ECR Europe Conference & Marketplace in Brussels on 5-6 April. It will be featured in a special plenary session and two breakout workshops that Emnos and TPG will lead together with major industry representatives. The workshops will explain the Consumer & Shopper Journey Framework and introduce how retailers and suppliers can begin to use it in the most practical way. 

Digital copies of the C&S J Framework will be available at the Emnos and TPG Stand in the Innovation Circle at the Conference. Members of the Emnos and TPG project team will be available to discuss any questions regarding the use of the C&SJ Framework. 

Conference and Session Details:

Place:  2011 ECR Europe Conference & Marketplace, Square Meeting Center, Brussels, Belgium

Break Out Session 2.2 - The Consumer und Shopper Journey: 5th April 2011; 5 p.m. to 5:45 p.m ; Silver Hall

Break Out Session 3.2 - Innovative Value Creation from Consumer and Shopper Journey Insights: 6th April 2011; 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. ; Silver Hall

Emnos Chains - Access to Real Insights into Shopper Behaviour: 6th April 2011, 1:05 p.m. until 1:20 p.m. ; Briefing Session Stage

About the ECR Blue Book: The Consumer & Shopper Journey Framework
The Consumer & Shopper Journey Framework guides the search for new and practical insights into consumer and shopper needs and behaviours, it provides a collaborative business process for merging and leveraging the insights of retailers and suppliers and defines the set of tools for deploying the programs developed from this process. Most importantly, the Framework has been designed to provide benefits to retailers and suppliers regardless of size or level of resources.

About Emnos
Emnos is one of the leading service and consulting companies in Europe for “customer-centric growth”. Emnos helps retailers and other companies dealing with end customers to understand their customers' requirements better and to use this understanding to increase the customer focus of their products and services. To achieve this, Emnos analyses customer and transaction data, develops strategies for companies’ product line, price, promotion and communications policies, and provides tools and solutions to support their implementation.
Emnos is part of the Loyalty Partner Group, a subsidiary of American Express, and currently has a workforce of some 100 employees at sites in Munich, London, Chicago, Paris, Madrid and Warsaw. Its customers include international companies such as Carrefour, Target, Waitrose, Morrisons, Unilever and Coca-Cola. In Germany, Emnos works for the bonus programme Payback, dm-drogerie markt and real,-, to name but a few.
Further information: www.emnos.com

About the Partnering Group
The Partnering Group (TPG) is an international strategy and management consulting firm whose mission is to build sustainable value for leading consumer product companies worldwide. Since 1990, TPG has helped business leaders address their greatest challenges, from developing and deploying strategy to reorganizing for improved productivity and maximized revenue. Dr. Brian Harris, TPG's founder and chairman, is acknowledged internationally as a thought leader in the field of retail management and is credited with pioneering two of the most significant developments in the field: Computerized Space Management (in 1985) and Category Management (in 1989).TPG’s clients include many of the world’s leading retailers and consumer goods marketing companies.
Further information: www.thepartneringgroup.com.