Cost pressures and an increasingly competitive market have resulted in severe price increases across the restaurant industry. Research by the National Restaurant Association has found that menu prices on average have increased 4.7% percent last year, and quick service has increased by 6.7% - which was the highest increase U.S. consumers experienced in over [...]
Iris Pricing Solutions has launched a special report entitled ‘Pricing and Digitization: Parallel Journeys to Success and Survival’, demonstrating how pricing, marketing, and sales can benefit from better data capture and use that data to increase customer segmentation, improve value propositions, and better understand consumer behavior. Companies in the B2B sector are increasingly employing [...]
By: Ed Heskins, Director of Pricing Strategy (UK) Last month marked “Freedom Day” in parts of the UK, when the government removed almost all remaining restrictions on its citizens, leaving them free to congregate together, and for businesses to dial-down some of the social distancing measures in place for the last 18 months. [...]
By: Kevin McCabe Contact Kevin -Director, Pricing Strategy, Industrial & Manufacturing The start of a new fiscal year is a major milestone in the annual calendar: most companies have already broken their pricing resolutions by summer and won't be attacking them again--at least until the planning cycle for [...]
With wide-scale vaccine rollouts well underway, our entry into a post-pandemic world is already a reality for some, and inevitable for others. That's good news for experience economy survivors —those in the airline, hotel, and travel industries, live events, conferences and trade shows, indoor and outdoor venues, etc. However, reopening raises significant questions around [...]
This pricing transformation provided $3 million in short-term pricing opportunities, and $10 million in long-term margin improvement opportunities. The client is a private equity company that manufactures and sells retail home design products. These products are sold through big box home improvement stores, smaller hardware stores, and independent home design and décor stores. The challenge: [...]
By: Fred Puech, Vice President of Analytics The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extensive and ongoing limits to in-person dining, and with the patio season ending across North America, more and more restaurants are relying on third-party delivery vendors to survive. Popular third-party delivery systems like Skip the Dishes and Uber Eats are in many [...]
Recently, Chairman of Pricing Solutions Paul Hunt, had a conversation with Mark Stiving, Ph.D. of Impact Pricing LLC. In this episode, Paul talks about how companies in a fast-paced digital environment fail to recognize what their product’s true value is. With a significant change in the market and with all the competitive disruption, and [...]
Originally posted on Sports Industry Group As the Premier League makes its matches available to fans on a pay-per-view basis for £14.95 per game, Ed Heskins, Senior Pricing Consultant, Iris Pricing Solutions takes a look at the psychology behind pricing - and why the league's approach has caused consternation among fans. If every [...]
While IoT technology is generating huge business opportunities, it is also creating a significant challenge – how can businesses effectively monetize Internet-of-Things products and not leave money on the table?
