trade spending

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Trade Promotion Management: What is Trade Spend?

Posted by Tom Tipps There’s been a lot of dialogue around the topic of trade-spend management in the Foodservice industry; but, in all honesty I’m not sure the industry has ever really agreed on the definition of “Trade” Spending. From my perspective Foodservice trade spending involves incentives paid by manufacturers directly to their operator and distributor trading partners…to motivate those trading partners to purchase, sell or promote the manufacturers products/brands to the restaur

posted @ Thursday, December 10, 2009 8:50 AM | Feedback (0)

The Times They are a Changin'

Posted by John Nicholas I am old enough to remember life before computers. There was no real information to guide business decisions. I had to rely strictly on my good looks and personality. Okay, I exaggerated; I just had my personality to work with. But the point is that I remember a time when everything was based on relationship, not numbers. “Back in the day”, as a foodservice manufacturer rep, if I had a great relationship with a distributor or operator buyer, many times I could

posted @ Wednesday, October 07, 2009 3:04 PM | Feedback (0)