Beauty benefits: Focus on ingredients
by Megan Moyer, corporate marketing manager, as appeared in Inside Beauty for Drug Store News Every year, HRG conducts a review of the new health, beauty, and wellness products released to identify trends and shifts in the market. There were 632 beauty and 302 wellness items that were launched in 2023 and the first three months of […]
HRG Reviews 1,634 New HBW Items in 2023
Waukesha, Wisconsin – February 27, 2024– HRG’s new item review team, in its ongoing evaluation of products suitable for the independent pharmacy channel, examined 1,634 new health, beauty, and wellness (HBW) items in 2023. This is a decrease of 12.8% from the 1,875 products reviewed in 2022. Of the newly introduced items in 2023, 18, […]
HRG Presents Webinar for CHPA Academy March 6th
Waukesha, Wisconsin — February 7, 2024 — HRG’s digital assets manager, Lisa Lopez, and vice president of strategic relations, Dave Wendland, will be presenting a webinar, Let’s Get Digital, for the CHPA Academy on March 6th at 2pm EST. Webinar attendees will learn the importance of managing their data assets and the large influence it […]
HRG Updates and Rebrands its Benchmark Performance Analysis Service
Waukesha, Wisconsin — December 21, 2023 — HRG has updated and rebranded its Benchmark™ Performance Analysis program for independent pharmacies. After a thorough review that included gathering feedback from retailers and wholesalers, HRG defined enhancements to improve usability. Benchmark provides a store-specific assessment of which categories are performing well or under-achieving compared to national averages […]
Analysis Angles
by Lisa Lopez, digital assets manager, for Chain Drug Review While businesses don’t often use the term “big data” anymore, the concept has not disappeared. The analysis of large amounts of data to mine a variety of insights and actions still provides the strongest guideposts when building a strategic direction. Many companies still struggle with […]
HRG’s Category Research & Analysis Team Looks Back at HBW New Item Category Trends
Waukesha, Wisconsin — August 2, 2023 — HRG recently looked back at the new health, beauty, and wellness (HBW) items they chose as part of their annual selection of the Future 50 products for Drug Store News to dig into category trends. After reviewing the HBW products they projected to succeed in the market from […]
Don’t forget the individual shopper behind the aggregated data
by Megan Moyer, corporate marketing manager, as seen in Mass Market Retailers Sometimes it feels like our world revolves around data. Certainly, in retail, it can be easy to forget about the individual consumer behind the aggregated data attributes that have been collected about them. For instance, a few years ago when HRG was building […]
HRG to Present at ECRM Home Health Care Session
Waukesha, Wisconsin — April 20, 2023 — HRG’s Dave Wendland, vice president strategic relations, will host a panel discussion, “Focusing on Care Where Health Meets the Home,” on Tuesday, May 9, 2023, at 8:00 a.m. PT during the ECRM Home Health Care Session at Green Valley Ranch Resort & Spa in Henderson, Nevada. The hour-long […]
HRG’s Lopez Earns GS1 Standards Advanced Certificate
Waukesha, Wisconsin — April 6, 2023 — Lisa Lopez, digital assets manager at HRG, has earned the GS1 Standards Advanced Certificate from GS1 US. Lopez completed the GS1 US University training covering the comprehensive concepts relating to the GS1 System of Standards and how to apply them. This includes how globally unique, unambiguous identification is […]
Bright spots can be found in performance of GM
By Colleen Volheim, category research & analysis manager, as seen in Chain Drug Review General merchandise is subject to the same challenges nearly all products are currently experiencing — supply chain issues and inflation. According to the NPD Group, April 2022 U.S. GM unit sales were 7% lower than a year ago, creating a 1% decline […]