Price actions are not unique Companies are constantly testing the extent of their pricing power. Faced with rising costs for materials, transportation, and workers, companies are charging more for products from metal fasteners to Oreo cookies. The primary response to inflation is to become more efficient, but inflation is currently so high, that productivity [...]
By Craig Singleton, Director of Restaurant Strategy, Iris Pricing Solutions Spring is here and it's the ideal time to re-evaluate menus and reconsider pricing. Producing new menu items or switching to a seasonal menu necessitates a consideration of current pricing. Many large, multi-unit restaurant brands procrastinate on pricing out of fear that an increase [...]
Last year we asked the question Can You Protect Your Business and Clients from Cost Shocks? While we may have all hoped that the surge in the cost of raw materials and Pandemic-related disruptions would dissipate, the truth is that we're now in a significant period of inflation with most companies needing to increase [...]
Iris Pricing Solutions has launched a special report entitled ‘Pricing and Digitization: Parallel Journeys to Success and Survival’, demonstrating how pricing, marketing, and sales can benefit from better data capture and use that data to increase customer segmentation, improve value propositions, and better understand consumer behavior. Companies in the B2B sector are increasingly employing [...]
This pricing transformation provided $3 million in short-term pricing opportunities, and $10 million in long-term margin improvement opportunities. The client is a private equity company that manufactures and sells retail home design products. These products are sold through big box home improvement stores, smaller hardware stores, and independent home design and décor stores. The challenge: [...]
The Evergreen, the enormous shipping container that infamously blocked traffic in the Suez Canal for almost a week was earlier this year, but experts say the impact is and will continue to be felt throughout global supply chains. The traffic jam in the Suez Canal isn't solely to blame, of course. There's been a global [...]
Our client is the largest independent, non-profit standards organization focused on ensuring the global quality and safety of drugs, medicines, and supplements. They collected competitive data through a manual, ad hoc process – which was labor-intensive and inefficient. Our client teamed up with Pricing Solutions to improve its competitive intelligence capabilities through automating the [...]
The truth is subscription pricing is more than a trend – it's been around for years now and is gaining momentum. Everything as a Service (EaaS) means that everything that used to be available as a one-time payment will now be available to purchase as a recurring payment. There are three trends around subscription [...]
By: Kevin McCabe, MSc, Director of Pricing Strategy & Greg Thomas, Vice President of Pricing Research and Insights Historically, professional associations have played a critical role in supporting, educating, and connecting their members. With many aging members entering retirement, most associations have struggled to engage younger professionals, a problem that has caused declining membership. [...]
By: Fred Puech, Vice President of Analytics The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extensive and ongoing limits to in-person dining, and with the patio season ending across North America, more and more restaurants are relying on third-party delivery vendors to survive. Popular third-party delivery systems like Skip the Dishes and Uber Eats are in many [...]
