| At Trade Dimensions, We Know Retail.
With an impeccable lineage as the former Progressive Grocer database, Trade Dimensions has been tracking the evolution of the supermarket industry for over 35 years. Two decades ago we began branching out into other retail classifications, and we have never looked back. Our Retail Site Database acts as the base template of store locations for Spectra's Consumer Targeting applications, and is the foundation upon which the TDLinx numbering system is built. Besides publishing directories and producing electronic directory systems for business information use, we also provide the most accurate retail site data available to many of the leading food and non-food manufacturers, investment firms and service suppliers in the U.S.
Trade Dimensions spends every business day monitoring retail accounts in ways your in-house staff cannot. We subscribe to every trade publication and every newswire. We read every news story, and cross-reference it against every other. We compare it to what we already know, and check the facts against our Retail Site Database. And then we talk directly to the retailer. All the things you would like to do, but have neither the resources nor the contacts for. That's why so many of the world's Consumer Packaged Goods companies - large and small - subscribe to our products. Think of us as your outsourced research department at a fraction of the cost.
Every company profile you find in our directories and electronic directory systems is created and updated by direct company contact at least annually and often semi-monthly. Yes, every profile. Mailings, telephone calls, faxes, e-mail—all to make sure our information is the most accurate available at any price. Our editors, industry analysts and researchers monitor information from sources as diverse as the 24-hour newswire, newspaper clipping services, the Internet, trade/industry publications and even the proverbial grapevine. More importantly, they are all knowledgeable retail experts who sift and blend these various sources into an information package you can rely on.
Furthermore, all our products are at least partially supported by our Retail Site Database, a one-of-a-kind source of information which operates on a store-by-store level. Ask our competitors if they can say the same. Trade Dimensions' Retail Site Database currently contains the point locations of over 500,000 retail sites in the U.S., and that number continues to grow as we expand our coverage into additional retail categories. We make millions of changes to that database every year (on a daily basis) in a concerted effort to monitor every store closing, opening, merger, acquisition and sale that occurs in the most dynamic business segment there is. |
