MMI - Services

	Agentrics Global provider of collaborative supply chain solutions for Retail and Consumer Goods Industry. Agentrics solutions help retailers, manufacturers, and their trading partners reduce costs and improve efficiency by streamlining and automating sourcing, product design, and supply chain processes.

	IRI Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) is the world’s leading provider of enterprise market information solutions and services, empowering its clients to grow their business profitably in a complex marketplace. Driving the transformation of the consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail, and healthcare industries, only IRI provides a unique combination of real-time market content, advanced analytics, enterprise performance management software, and professional services.

	Mintel Insight + Impact - Mintel's commitment to its clients is encapsulated in this simple formula. Mintel's clients gain global insight into consumer behavior, product innovation and competitive marketing strategies. Mintel helps their clients tap into new product opportunities, increase price margins, recognize competitive threats and respond to their individual business needs, so they remain competitive and profitable

	Buxton With more than 450 years of executive-level retail and community management experience, Buxton is more qualified than any company in the nation to help you answer the question, "Who is my customer?" Buxton pioneered the use of household-level data for customer analysis. Millions of customer transactions are analyzed to determine purchasing habits and lifestyles, a process now known as psychographics. Once the lifestyle of a given customer is known, they and others like them can literally be found anywhere in America.

	SQF The SQF (Safe Quality Food) Institute is a division of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), established to administer the SQF Program, a leading, global food safety and quality certification and management system. The Program provides independent certification that a supplier's food safety and quality management system complies with international and domestic food safety regulations. This enables suppliers to assure their customers that food has been produced, processed, prepared and handled according to the highest possible standards, at all levels of the supply chain.

	QAA The QAA is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing information and training related to the quality of Private Label products. This is an organization of professionals from wholesalers, retailers, manufacturers, laboratories, government, suppliers, and others.

	FMG Food Marketing Group (FMG) was established in 1986 on the philosophy that a retailer's or wholesaler’s product procurement should be based on a thorough knowledge of global market opportunities. Food Marketing Group’s vision is to become the strategic service partner to each of our customers by helping them improve their overall position in the market place, lower their cost of goods and services, and increase their profits throughout the entire supply chain process.

	NGA The National Grocers Association (N.G.A.) is the national trade association representing the retail and wholesale grocers that comprise the independent sector of the food distribution industry. Along with affiliated associations, manufacturers, service suppliers as well as other entrepreneurial companies that support N.G.A.'s Philosophy and Mission.

	PLMA For retailers, wholesalers, and their suppliers, the time to emphasize private label has never been so obvious. And the best way to get into private label is PLMA’s 2009 Private Label Trade Show. It is the only trade show devoted entirely to store brands. For almost 30 years, PLMA’s annual private label trade show has been the place where retailers and suppliers meet to build their private label business. It’s the industry’s event of the year.

	FMI Food Marketing Institute (FMI) conducts programs in public affairs, food safety, research, education and industry relations on behalf of its 1,500 member companies — food retailers and wholesalers — in the United States and around the world.

	AAF The American Advertising Federation protects and promotes the well-being of advertising. We accomplish this through a unique, nationally coordinated grassroots network of advertisers, agencies, media companies, local advertising clubs and college chapters.

	American Frozen Food Institute The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) is the national trade association that promotes and represents the interests of all segments of the frozen food industry. AFFI fosters industry development and growth, advocates on behalf of the industry before legislative and regulatory entities, and provides additional value-added services for its members and for the benefit of consumers.