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Monthly Retailer Category Tips — First Aid

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by Kelly Zygowski, category analyst, part of Monthly Retailer Category Tips Utilize various merchandising techniques to draw attention to your first aid department. There are many opportunities to cross-merchandise products from other categories into your first aid department. From foot care to pain relief to health support items, you’ll find several basket-building ideas in HRG’s […]

Beauty benefits: Focus on ingredients

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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, […]

Monthly Retailer Category Tips — Hair Care

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by Cat Renwick, category analyst, part of Monthly Retailer Category Tips Focus on therapeutic products, the sweet spot for independent pharmacies in the hair care category. 1. Within community pharmacy, the hair care category is the second most productive beauty category in both units and dollars, after skin care, according to HRG proprietary PAC data.1 […]

HRG’s IN.store Category Management Tools Customer Portals Completed

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Waukesha, Wisconsin — January 31, 2024 — HRG has completed the development of IN.store™ Category Management Tools customer portals. The robust, customizable portals host all of the materials that are a part of the IN.store program, as well as tools to help speed and streamline in-store implementation, including: Category Strategy Category Rankings Last Chance Hot […]

Monthly Retailer Category Tips — Eye & Ear Care

by Noah Rosenthal, category analyst, part of Monthly Retailer Category Tips Stay up to date with the developments in the eye & ear care category so you can advise your patients on product availability. In a poll conducted by HRG among our Facebook group of independent pharmacists last spring, most respondents indicated that they are […]

HRG Updates and Rebrands its Merchandising and Pricing Program to IN.store Category Management Tools

Waukesha, Wisconsin — August 16, 2023 — HRG has updated and rebranded its merchandising and pricing program, from TEMPS™ Category Manager to IN.store™ Category Management Tools. After a thorough review that included gathering feedback from retailers, merchandisers, and wholesalers, HRG defined enhancements to improve usability and ultimately provide an exceptional shopping experience for consumers while maximizing […]