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Roulston Research November 13th Food and Beverages Conference Call with...
In our latest roundtable, Bob Anderson, President, Store Brand Consulting, Former Vice President of Private Label, Wal-Mart and Peter Swanson, CEO, Compass International Consulting, Former Vice...
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Roulston Research November 14th Cloud Roundtable with former CEO...
Roulston Research recently held a Cloud Roundtable with John Dillon, CEO of Engine Yard and Former CEO of Salesforce.com, and Michael Liebow, founder and CEO of Fortuit and Former VP of Business...
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Steve Dennis on JC Penney’s Disappointing Results and Corrective Steps
Two weeks ago the JC Penney story went from bad to sad. The bad part is well-known by now: financial results dramatically below expectations, thousands of JCP employees laid off, a precipitous drop in...
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Roulston Technology Partner Rob Enderle on How EMC Has Shown the Power of Big...
There is the old joke about the scientists and the frog. You know the one, it starts off with measuring the frog’s jump with 4 legs (4’), they cut off one leg (3’), another leg (2’), another leg (1’),...
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Steve Dennis on What JC Penney’s Needs to do to Stop the Bleeding
As Penney’s is now in the heart of what is sure to be another disappointing quarter, here are the major steps I recommend to stem the bleeding and give the transformation the time and the momentum it...
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Roulston Consumer Partner Bob Anderson on ConAgra Acquisition of Ralcorp
Well what Wall Street and Main Street were thinking and waiting for to happen did today, ConAgra acquisition of Ralcorp. This is truly a “win / win” for shareholders, retailers and consumers....
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Roulston Retail Partner Dick Seesel on Cyber Monday Sales Record Shattered
Cyber Monday did not disappoint after consumers already spent a record $59.1 billion over the 4-day Thanksgiving weekend. According to IBM smarter commerce, online shopping was up 28.4% on Cyber Monday...
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Differing Perspective on Black Friday 2012
This was just an observation from one of our Retailer Partners at Roulston Research. Black Friday this year is getting rave reviews by all. Sales are up on both online and with brick and mortar...
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Roulston Technology Partner Rob Enderle on Fixing HP
Meg Whitman has a near impossible task. Over the last decade prior boards hired Carly Fiorina to make HP less boring and created an ops problem while HP became the wrong kind of exciting. Then they...
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Roulston Retail Partner Maggie Gilliam on JC Penney’s
One of the problems of doing all the shops at once is that mistakes, as well as successes, get duplicated on a grand scale, so allowance has to be made for corrections. And we also have to watch the...
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Roulston Technology Partner Timothy Prickett Morgan on Server Revenue Declines
The server racket continues to be impacted by issues throughout the global economy and intense competition between incumbent players, upstarts, and those making their own hyperscale boxes. Shipment...
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Roulston Research December 5th Big Data Roundtable with Former Group VP...
Data is continuing to grow exponentially and new technologies are emerging to compete in the big data analytics arena. Companies like Google, Oracle, Amazon, IBM, and even Facebook are now vying for...
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Roulston Retail Partner Dick Seesel on Dollar General’s Upcoming Drop in Prices
Dollar General recently announced that they were going to reduce prices on categories such as cereal and coffee to drive store traffic and grow its business. This came after the company announced an...
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Roulston Research December 12th Fast Food and Fast Casual Conference Call...
Roulston Research recently hosted their Fast Food and Fast Causal conference call on Dec 12th with Nelson Marchioli, Former CEO of Denny’s and Steve Crichlow, Principle at Compass Restaurant Consulting...
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Roulston Energy Partner on How North America Will Become a Net Energy Exporter
ExxonMobil released its annual long-term global forecast which predicted North America will become a net oil exporter by 2030 with the forecast showing oil being the dominant fuel through 2040 with...
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Roulston Media Partner Alec Gerster on Nielsen Acquisition of Arbitron
Until Nielsen announced its plan to acquire Arbitron this week, few outside the media industry had heard of the company. Yet it has had a long and at times very creative run as the “other guy” in the...
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Keith Mallinson on No Signs of Collateral Damage in Smartphone Patent Wars
Industry analysts are forecasting blow-out holiday season sales for smartphones and tablets, with extremely upbeat forecasts for 2012 overall and beyond. How could this be the very same, allegedly...
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Roulston Retail Partner Dick Seesel on Disappointing Holiday Retail Sales
All signs have been pointing to holiday retail sales coming in lower than expected with decreased consumer spending and traffic levels. A variety of different reasons played a role in this development...
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Mark Ramsey on How Nielsen’s Acquisition of Arbitron Affects the Radio Industry
Last month Nielsen agreed to buy Arbitron for $1.3 billion dollars and there has been a lot of talk about how the move can potentially benefit radio. We are entering a world where “measurement” is not...
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Steve Dennis on Failed Target – Neiman Marcus Partnership
If you pay attention to this sort of thing, you know that several months back Neiman Marcus and Target made a big splash when they announced a partnership to jointly market a limited collection of...
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