MVI Delivers

Fact-Based Market Research, Compelling Analysis, Consulting and Retail Training Leadership

Management Ventures, Inc. (MVI) is a retail research and consulting firm supplying breakthrough retail insight, analysis, and thought leadership.

With research teams located in Cambridge, MA, London, and expanding capabilities in India and Latin America, our retail experts provide critical insight while tracking the strategic and tactical developments of the top global retailers.

We offer a range of products and services that enable our clients to build, strengthen, and maintain their retailer relationships. Clients gain a solid knowledge-base and skill set to foresee trends and to adequately prepare for change in the ever-changing retail landscape while remaining tuned in to the strategic implications for their companies.

We Help Clients Succeed

Access MVI’s Thought Leadership On Point, Online, or Onsite

MVI shares its data, strategic retail insights, analysis, and supplier implications with our clients online at MVI-Insights.com or MVI-Insights.eu, onsite at a client location, or in the classroom through our syndicated retail events.

As a trusted advisor, MVI is the preferred resource for companies seeking a thought leadership perspective on critical retail topics and industry trends. Because of this, our clients (suppliers, brand manufacturers, financial institutions, ad and brand agencies, strategic marketing companies) build stronger long-term partnerships with their key retail customers.

Designed with our clients in mind, our products:

• Elevate the understanding of the strategies, scope, and scale of top retailers, allowing clients to build effective sales strategies.
• Provide original, thought-provoking insights that focus on critical topics (market shifts, shopper insights, private label, etc.) that affect joint business plans.
• Reduce your time and effort used to gather relevant information with our accurate and comprehensive retail data reports, news, and supplier implications.

If you would like more information or would like to schedule an MVI-Insights.com demo, contact customer service at 800.370.3261 or 617.588.4100 or by e-mail customerservice@mventures.com.

MVI’s Value Proposition

Translates into Practical, Actionable Activities for Managing Retailer Relationships

Our data, retailer profiles, forecasts, retail trends, and unique insight and analysis present the most accurate view of the retail landscape. Tap into MVI’s expertise:

• Account and Market Updates – implement strategies and insights at the retailer/customer, channel, and/or country level
• Joint Business Planning – understand retailers’ strategies and develop successful joint business plans with historic and forward-looking data
• Account and Market Planning Tools - utilize forecasts, demographic trends, and shopper insights
• Leadership and Staff Orientation – fast track new employees quickly and efficiently with the retail insights by channel, chain, or market/country
• Custom Research Capabilities – MVI can work with your team on specific projects to apply our syndicated research
• Meeting Preparation reports – consolidate MVI's applicable research for top-to-tops, sales calls, or internal meetings
• Benchmarking – compare your company from those “best-in-class” by accessing MVI’s insights

We save your hundreds of hours of research work. Our analysts track retailers, channels, and countries daily. MVI-Insights.com and MVI-Insights.eu connects you with their insights instantly.

MVI Lends a Helping Hand...

MVI Participates in Community Care Day with the United Way

Our Adventures at St. Ambrose Family Homeless Shelter

We had a great turn out for Community Care Day with the United Way, which took place on Thursday, September 25. Twelve MVI teammates headed to St. Ambrose Family Shelter in Dorchester, MA for a day of hard work cleaning, organizing and beautifying the shelter.

The St. Ambrose Shelter team greeted us with morning essentials (coffee and donuts), shared details about the shelter, gave us a tour and put us to work! Among our many projects we:

• Painted the shelter’s dining room
• Painted a bedroom
• Organized the children’s indoor play space
• Sorted and itemized used clothing donations
• Helped winterize the building by removing air conditioners
• Created a gift basket for a shelter resident that found a new home

The day ended with a BBQ hosted by the shelter, a wonderful thank you and great fun after a day of hard work.

MVI-Management Ventures Inc, participates in Greater Boston Food Bank food drive and volunteer activity

16 MVI teammates attended the event and brought several boxes and bags full of food.

The MVI Team made it to the Food Bank’s South Boston location early this morning and in great spirits! They learned more about the Food Bank’s role in addressing hunger needs in eastern Massachusetts, got extensive training on sorting, packing and quality assurance, and got hands on with the food donations.

Our group which included the MVI Team, employees from Shawmut Construction and from Gould Farm, produced some impressive numbers...

With 34 volunteers, we sorted 11,337 pounds of food. An estimated 245 pounds of food were sorted by each volunteer, and 189 meals were made possible by each volunteer.

Kantar Group

Kantar is the parent company for WPP’s market research companies and is one of the world’s largest research, insight, and consultancy networks. Kantar brings together a diverse group of outstanding marketing insight and consulting companies. They work together seamlessly to help clients address business issues in a holistic and strategic way. The group operates in 160 offices across 60 markets worldwide.

Companies include: Added Value Group, AMRB, BMRB, BPRI, Cannondale Associates, Center Partners, Everystone, Focalyst, Fusion 5, Glendinning Management Consultants, Henley Centre HeadlightVision, IMRB, Kantar Operations, KMR Group, Lightspeed Research, Management Ventures Inc., Mattson Jack Group, Millward Brown, Research International, RMS, and Ziment Group.

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MVI… A Partner In Your Success!