The restaurant industry is currently facing a challenging landscape as soaring food prices and inflation have softened demand across the sector. As consumers become more price-sensitive, many are turning away from fast-food chains in favor of preparing meals at home or choosing healthier dining options, even if they cost slightly more. This shift has put [...]
A note from Iris Pricing Solutions President: Kirk Jackisch 3 Ways Businesses Can Optimize Prices in 2024 As 2024 progresses amidst global uncertainty, businesses face significant challenges. Recent years have witnessed escalating costs and diminishing profit margins, prompting frequent price increases, often occurring multiple times annually. Despite this, businesses have increasingly embraced robust price [...]
By: Benjamin Garden, VP, Pricing Analytics, Iris Pricing Solutions In 2023, restaurants have faced a slew of challenges, from slower foot traffic to higher supply costs. However, some restaurants and their franchisees are defying expectations and actually earning healthy profits. How are they accomplishing this feat? Their secret weapon is pricing analytics, which is the [...]
By: Benjamin Garden, Vice President, Pricing Analytics In a Conference Board survey of 51% of CEOs worldwide, inflation was their second-biggest external concern in 2023 (behind only a possible recession). In today's age of "Big Data", C-suite executives are eager to use data and analytics to address all of their business challenges - including inflation. [...]
By Kirk Jackisch: President, Iris Pricing Solutions As we venture into the second half of 2023, businesses continue to face a range of pricing challenges that require careful navigation and strategic planning – covered in our previous article, The Current State of Pricing. The landscape is influenced by factors such as inflation, interest rates, [...]
A note from Iris Pricing Solutions President: Kirk Jackisch As we approach the end of 2022, it is clear that pricing leaders will need to navigate a very unpredictable market…perhaps more than ever before. With this uncertainty, leaders must employ resilient, proactive, and competitive pricing strategies. What We Saw Across Industries Almost all companies [...]
Price actions are not unique Companies are constantly testing the extent of their pricing power. Faced with rising costs for materials, transportation, and workers, companies are charging more for products from metal fasteners to Oreo cookies. The primary response to inflation is to become more efficient, but inflation is currently so high, that productivity [...]
By: Kirk Jackisch, President, Iris Pricing Solutions Over the last 18 months, B2B businesses have been faced with three major challenges. Labor shortages, procuring materials, and the inflation in their cost of goods, which for some specific products has hit numbers in the low to mid-double digits – increases that have been unprecedented in [...]
Last year we asked the question Can You Protect Your Business and Clients from Cost Shocks? While we may have all hoped that the surge in the cost of raw materials and Pandemic-related disruptions would dissipate, the truth is that we're now in a significant period of inflation with most companies needing to increase [...]
