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| ECRM® MarketGate™ Application Suite provides powerful business solutions by combining Process, Vision and Technology. Based on the software behind ECRM’s EPPS, MarketGate™ enables companies to apply the tools that make EPPS events so effective to their everyday business operations and use a single website for their product and material sourcing, ad research, and communication needs.
| The MarketGate Basic Subscription is available free of charge and allows users to access all information related to finding and attending ECRM EPPS events. Basic subscriptions allow users to: | - Keep product listings up to date with Product Catalogue.
- Review meeting notes and follow-up after EPPS events.
- Complete and search for scorecards with Scorecard Manager.
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| | The MarketGate Premium Subscription is available for a small annual fee and gives users all of the features available in Basic Subscriptions plus: | - Track circular ads with Ad Comparisons.
- Search for new products with Product Catalogue.
- Automatically load product data into retailer forms with Forms Assistant.
- Communicate with thousands of industry contacts with Contact Manager.
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| | The MarketGate Platinum Subscription includes all MarketGate™ features in Basic and Premium subscriptions plus Platinum Reports and Data Exports. Platinum Subscriptions are customized by company - please contact Scott Whalley (847) 482-1793 for details. | - Access countless 'Best Practice' reports.
- Download Data to Excel.
- Determine your 'Share Of Voice' Vs. your competition.
- Detailed Private Label Reports.
- Price Point Reports, Brand Variance Reports, and so much more...
|  | | | MarketGate Mobile is available to MarketGate Premium subscribers and to ECRM EPPS attendees as a free download. The program includes most of the same tools as the MarketGate website as well as additional tools for attending ECRM events in a convenient, downloadable format that allows users to work without a constant internet connection. |  | | | | Click here to download MarketGate Mobile |
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| | EPPS (Efficient Program Planning Sessions)® category-specific events consist of one-on-one planning sessions scheduled between buyers and sellers to review new items, marketing initiatives and strategic direction. | | | | | | | | |
| | Streamline your internal and external contacts into a single, powerful contact management system that saves you time and money. Use the powerful search engine to communicate with over 100,000 members of the CPG and Packaging industries around the world. |  | | |  | Quick Search | Premium Content |
Use this option if you need to find a specific company or person by thier name, email address or telephone number.
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|  | Powerful Search and Filter Tools | Premium Content |
Both buyers and sellers can take advantage of the powerful search options included in Contact Manager to pinpoint new opportunities worldwide. Search tools not only include standard Company and Person options but also allow users to filter by product category, company type, and location.
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|  | Community Directory | Premium Content |
| A search engine of over 6,000 companies and over 30,000 names including company profiles and links to their email addresses and websites. Directories are formatted by category to facilitate review or communication of new initiatives. Included is ECRM Mail, a system designed to allow you to communicate new initiatives, programs or requests to the supplier community at one time. |
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|  | Broker Portal | | Brokers and manufacturer representatives occupy an important role in the supply chain and ECRM maintains an extensive directory of brokers. Use the Broker Portal to find brokers by category, location, international capabilities or other criteria. |
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|  | Diversity Portal | | The MarketGate Diversity Portal enables corporations and businesses to attract new customers and buy their goods and services. This comprehensive tool will help corporate supplier diversity managers, and minority business owners maximize their productivity. |
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| | Create custom questionaires, surveys or scorecards for information gathering or to qualify potential business partners. Generate questionnaires from scratch or with the use of one of our standard templates. Questions and answers can be assigned values in order to measure and identify companies, products or resources that comply with your needs. Email and reporting applications are provided for sending out scorecards and evaluating results. | | | |  | My Scorecard Library | | Users can generate questionnaires from scratch or use of one of our standard templates. You can add questions and answers and assign point values in order to measure and identify companies, products or resources that comply with your needs. |
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|  | Send a Scorecard | | You can send a questionnaire to an existing address book, EPPS event attendees, your own list of recipients. You could even search our contact database by category, company type and geographical region. Easily monitor response rates and resend to un-responsive recipients. |
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|  | View Scorecard Results | | Review your questionnaire responses in many formats including: an aggregated composite, a summary view, by company or by question. Easily build a report to fit your needs and export to Excel with a click of a button. |
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|  | Search Scorecards | | Search specific questions and/or answers to find a subset of recipients that answered your questionnaire a particular way. Easily export or email these contacts for future endeavors. |
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| | Search for new products from suppliers around the world and automatically load product data and high resolution images into custom retail forms. | | | | |
|  | Retailers | - View products by category by supplier or by event.
- View all items or filter by type(new, promo, display, etc).
- Search for private label items or suppliers.
- Publish to catalogues using customized fields and data.
- Download new and promotional item forms and spread sheets.
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|  | Private Label Search |
- Search by supplier name, product name or category. If you are looking for private brand suppliers you can filter your search to exclude brands.
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| | The ECRM Promotional Planning application is a unique planning tool that can streamline your current promotional planning process. This advanced system relies partly on our robust history of circular advertising data allowing you to view previously run circular ads as well as your competition! | | | |  | How Retailers can use the system… | | Retailers can utilize the system to eliminate the planning spreadsheet process, allocate ad block space, track promotional projections and dollars, easily anniversary historical ad blocks, communicate with vendors, analyze promotional decisions and track key competitor activity. |
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|  | What about Manufacturers & Brokers… | | Manufacturers and Brokers can centrally manage their company’s promotional efforts, trade spend, deals and funding from one intuitive interface. Review historical ad performance, analyze promotional sell thru and ROI, easily anniversary historical ad blocks, propose new ads to multiple retail chains and track your key competitions promotional activity. |
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| | Easily track both your ads and your competitors’ ads with Ad Comparisons. Search ECRM’s database of more than 13 million circular ads from more than 110 retailers and 60 markets across the United States and Canada by category, retailer, manufacturer, brand or market. | | | |  | Have a specific category in mind? | Premium Content |
Ad Comparison's Quick Search tool allows users who are unfamiliar with Ad Comparisons to access advertisements by category for the last 30 days without having to learn how to run a more complex Custom Search.
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|  | Need analysis of ad data? | Premium Content |
Users looking for more comprehensive and detailed ad research can use Platinum Reports to access data on promotions, trends, brands, front/back covers, and other key areas of analysis.
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| | MarketGate is a great way for retailers to find new sources for products around the world. Suppliers can use MarketGate to find suppliers of packaging, contract manufacturing, components or raw materials. | | | |  | Contacts | | Search our database of over 100,000 manufacturers located throughout the world. Organize contacts to fit your business needs and email perspecitve trading partners. |
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|  | Scorecarding | | Create custom questionaires, surveys or scorecards for information gathering or to qualify potential business partners. Generate questionnaires from scratch or with the use of one of our standard templates. Email and reporting applications are provided for sending out scorecards and evaluating results. |
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|  | Products | | Search for new products by category, sub category, brand or manufacturer. Download retailer custom item forms or high-res images. Create custom catalogs of items of interest for viewing or ordering. |
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|  | The BRC launches its highly acclaimed Global Standards in North America... | | The BRC Global Standards are a leading global safety and quality certification program used throughout the world by over 12,000 certificated suppliers in 90 countries through a network of over 80 accredited and BRC recognized Certification Bodies. The BRC are working closely with ECRM to raise the profile of product safety standards in the food and consumer product industries. |
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| | Whether you are looking for a new market research company or trying to plan your yearly event attendance our Industry Links and Industry Events can help you along the way. | | | |  | Industry Events | | Complete listing of all ECRM as well as competitive trade events throughout the world - a perfect tool for planning your yearly event attendance. |
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|  | Industry Links | | Looking for industry associations, consultants or services? Our Industry Links section includes consultants, brokers, financial services, logistics services, market research companies, planogram services and many others. |
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|  | ECRM Career Center | | ECRM has exciting opportunities for talented individuals interested in Information Technology, Web Development, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Advertising, Marketing, Client Relations, International Business and Sales. |
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| | Industry Career Center | | ECRM's Industry Career Center connects job seekers and employers throughout the CPG industry. Job seekers can post resumes and search for opportunities while employers can post openings and search for qualified candidates. |
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| | Broker Portal | | Brokers and manufacturer representatives occupy an important role in the supply chain and ECRM maintains an extensive directory of brokers. Use the Broker Portal to find brokers by category, location, international capabilities or other criteria. |
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| | Diversity Portal | | The MarketGate Diversity Portal enables corporations and businesses to attract new customers and buy their goods and services. This comprehensive tool will help corporate supplier diversity managers, and minority business owners maximize their productivity. |
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