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CURRENT CLIENT ENGAGEMENTS
As a member of the BGJ Client community, you may be offered unprecedented chances to partner in growth projects that would have been otherwise out-of-reach. By working directly with retail chains, BGJ Group to the strategies professionals are close being used to achieve best practices and new efficiencies and they recruit clients to become part of important solutions.
Afresh
For decades, Fresh departments have been underserved by technology built for general merchandise and consumer packaged food that fails to handle the inherent complexity of fresh food. Afresh is changing that with an artificial intelligence-powered fresh food optimization platform for grocers. Designed to help today’s grocery industry meet inevitable operational and merchandising challenges, its tools decimate shrink, boost sales, increase turns, and add days of shelf life. As a result, Afresh helps reduce food waste, improve store profitability and make fresher, healthier food more accessible to its communities. Fresh department managers enjoy using the tool and trust it.
Armanino Foods
For nearly 100 years, Armanino has taken the time and care to grow and select locally sourced, artisan ingredients for chef-inspired recipes that add flavor and spice to customers’ favorite foods. At Armanino, flavor and authenticity reign supreme. From signature pestos and sauces to stuffed pastas and meatballs, the company crafts its products from premium ingredients, balanced and blended to bring a taste of the Old World to the table. Armanino is known for its legacy of bold, exciting flavor and innovation that still guides the company today—and still plays a part in shaping the way the world thinks about cooking and eating. Products include globally inspired sauces, pastas, meatballs and more.
ASCEND PARTNERS
Ascend Partners is dedicated to helping its clients grow their customer bases through new sales channels. Its Managing Partners, Paul Franz and Jeff Nicolo, have developed strong relationships across multiple industries that have led to the creation of millions of new customers. Ascend Partners offers turnkey services in Partner Development that focus on every aspect of a successful program, such as developing a consumer offer, building a financial model, and creating a proven partner contract. It also provides Partner Marketing; its principals have managed thousands of partner marketing campaigns through a variety of approaches including direct marketing, auditing partner marketing, and outsourcing whole channels or activities. The firm also offers fulltime or consulting services in Relationship Management, helping partners fortify their business relationships for longterm business-building.
California Pet Pharmacy
California Pet Pharmacy is a fully licensed and accredited pet pharmacy based in Hayward, California. It ships a wide range of prescription items to all 50 states in the United State for your pet’s health needs. A cutting-edge resource, California Pet Pharmacy adds new products daily. All products are FDA and EPA approved and are intended for use only in the USA.
CLEANLOGIC
CLEANLOGIC is committed to offering the highest quality bath and body accessories while reducing its carbon footprint and developing sustainable products and packaging alternatives. “When you put ‘nice’ and ‘clean’ together, you have the foundation of a better body, a better world, and a better future.” Inspired by IMS founder Isaac Shapiro’s mother who lost her sight as a child, and the 25 million people in the United States who are visually impaired, CLEANLOGIC incorporates Braille on its packaging where possible to help blind and visually-impaired individuals lead a more independent life. A portion of all CLEANLOGIC’S sales go to organizations for the Visually Impaired.
Complete Fixture Solutions (CFS).
Complete Fixture Solutions (CFS) designs, manufactures and distributes high quality FEM fixtures. It also offers Grocery TV as part of its FEM fixture program. Grocery TV uses cutting-edge technology to eliminate out-of-stocks and ensure planogram compliance, while driving last-minute sales with video advertising.
eGrowcery
EGrowcery is focused on providing the most intuitive and enjoyable shopping experience for your customers through its simple, intelligent design and shopper-centric solution, custom built for the grocery industry. eGrowcery keeps you open for business regardless of how your customers want to shop. Our eGrowcery solution provides a seamless user experience on desktop, tablet and mobile, allowing shoppers to progressively build their cart or shopping list over time and across devices.
Forage
Forage builds payments infrastructure that processes government benefits, starting with EBT SNAP (food stamps), which enables the 42 million Americans who receive government assistance to buy groceries online. One in eight Americans receive government assistance to buy groceries, and one in five SNAP households include one or more people with a disability. Forage is the only USDA-approved third-party payment processor (TPP) that offers best-in-class software combined with dedicated service, enabling complex government payments online and guiding retailers through USDA authorization.
GlobalWorx, Inc.
GlobalWorx is dedicated to the goal of the synchronized enterprise – creating the ideal, customized environment in which companies can proactively communicate service needs in an automated and coordinated fashion. GlobalWorx has innovated systems that changed the way manufacturers, retailers, service centers, and suppliers conduct their business. Its award- winning technology optimizes the efficiency of task definition, communication, execution, and measurement across all trading partners within the grocery retail supply chain.
Grocery TV
Grocery TV is a digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising network in grocery stores. With over 8,000 displays across the U.S., it helps brands grow by building awareness with consumers in grocery stores. Grocery TV allows businesses to reach their local community in the highest traffic retail environment. Connect with your audience through video advertising in the highest traffic retail environment.
HALLMARK GREETING CARDS
Hallmark is a $3.8 billion business with greeting cards and other products sold in more than 40,000 retail stores across the U.S. – including top mass retailers and the network of Hallmark Gold Crown stores. Founded more than a century ago by a teenage entrepreneur with a couple of shoeboxes of postcards under his arm and the American dream in his heart, it is the world’s best-known greeting card brand.
Jacent Strategic Merchandising, LLC
Jacent was formed in 2016 by the merger of LaMi Products and ATA Retail Services, two pioneers in impulse merchandising with a combined 60 years of experience. With the industry’s largest database of retail intelligence, the deepest inventory of impulse products, and the most experienced team, it is the premier strategic merchandising partner to North America’s retailers.
L&R
L & R, which boasts 60-plus years of commitment to its customers, has four divisions: L & R Distributors; LR Logistics; LR Merchandising; and LR Fulfillment. It provides a full range of services in bringing products from numerous categories to market including: Stationery, Travel Accessories, Pet Care, Household, and Toys and Party goods. The company prides itself on providing customers who shop in supermarkets, drug stores, military exchanges, and via ecommerce with a perfect customer experience made up of a set of interactions that consistently exceed the needs and expectations of the customers. This helps to build customer loyalty and results in customers becoming advocates for the retailer, creating referrals, retention and growth.
Lynco Products
Lynco Products maintains global partnerships with vendors, factories and customers while carefully balancing competitive pricing, attractive quality product and mix of goods. It all starts with effective Category Management and is driven by market awareness and industry knowledge. Lynco’s category managers keep prices competitive and provide efficiencies with unique sourcing and product development. They create new opportunities by thinking outside of the box that allows them to go to market with unique solutions, responding to market needs in a timely manner.
Platinum Equity
Platinum Equity is a global M&A&O® firm specialized in mergers, acquisitions, and operations of companies that provide mission-critical products, services, and solutions in diverse industries. We offer deep in-house resources and flexible acquisition solutions to sellers worldwide.
READERLINK DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
Is the largest full-service distributor of hardcover, trade and paperback books to non-trade channel booksellers in North America, including the biggest names in retail across multiple retail channels. It is recognized for its leadership in book industry distribution logistics, value-added category management services, field services and business analytics, which includes fixture design, signage, distribution and in-store merchandising.
The Nexxus Marketing Group, LLC
The Nexxus Group® has been leading the way in Scan Based Trading (SBT) services since 2003. Its solutions range from electronic data exchange and sales and margin reporting to consolidated billing and price book management. As the industry leader in the technology behind Scan Based Trading (SBT), it is the provider that retailers and suppliers count on for expert, personalized customer service. Those partners include some of the world’s leading retailers and suppliers and our technology platform services more than 6,500 suppliers at 71,000 retail locations in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.