Category: Pricing

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How to Get Your Three-Tier Wine Pricing Strategy Right

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One of the most common wine pricing strategy mistakes, even among seasoned suppliers, is not leaving enough margin for multiple tiers in the sales process. It seems like a simple fix on the surface, but these margin errors often derive from…
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Business Intelligence and Data Masters Use Technology to Solve Major Wine Industry Pricing Challenge

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NAPA, CA — Business Impact developed Tradeparency as an answer to one of the biggest challenges wineries and wine importers face in today’s market — pricing.   With years of experience helping wineries and wine importers…
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5 Ways to Cover the Common 30% Gap in Wine Margin Management

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Depletion allowances (DAs) are often the “name of the game” in three-tier wine industry pricing. That’s because DAs make up the majority of promotion and price discounting at the distributor level. DA’s are an agreement between the…
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Beyond Depletion Allowance: The Top 8 Mistakes Wineries Make With Pricing Management

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Every winery/importer has the same ultimate goal with pricing management: knowing the true net dollar sales amount of your wine. Now of course, that means getting a solid, comprehensive handle on everything (and we mean everything) gross-to-net…
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3 Ways To Run Sales & Trade Marketing

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Successfully leveraging beverage sales tools like GreatVines to improve retail execution and marketing efficiency relies heavily on data analytics. In fact, most industries adopting automation and management software rise or fall…
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Tax Cut for Brewers Perfect Reason to Automate Beer Sales

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The Beer Institute and the National Beer Wholesalers association issued a study last month revealing the U.S. beer industry can be credited with creating better than 2.2 million jobs paying a total of $103 billion in wages and…
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Unlock Your Pricing Potential

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There are tangible benefits to exerting greater control over pricing, particularly when it comes to selling beverages via the 3-tier system. But, just what does that mean to “exert greater control” over pricing?  Some say…
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The IT Evolution Behind the Pricing Revolution

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  For as long as I’ve been with GreatVines a common question from suppliers surfaces: “What do you have to offer to help me manage my pricing?” In my former role with a supplier like those we serve today, we…
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Four Reasons Why You Don’t Want a Cloud Solution for Pricing

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At times, we encounter resistance to the idea of taking beverage pricing processes into the cloud. We get it. Cloud sounds like a buzzword, and the last thing you need when trying to get your beverage product into the market is to fiddle around…