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Arlington Heights, IL (March 18, 2008) - Adesso Solutions is proud to announce the latest feature enhancements for its industry leading Trade planning tool . The new release (available in April-May 2008) will include an expanded Deal Planning, P&L Planning (including freight and commissions), and Revenue Planning. “Our commitment to innovation is evident in our continued delivery of new product features,” commented Tim Vollman, Adesso CEO. The new Revenue Planning feature provides enormous flexibility to allow for dynamic pricing and currency ‘what-if’ scenarios to forecast the impact of future cost changes and the influence of exchange rates. Projected revenue plans can be developed using client determined Customer / Product / Period combinations and applying percentage increases or formulas to determine projected revenue. P & L Planning allows for the forecasting of Contribution / Profit Margins while anticipating the impact of variable commodity, freight, and other associated costs. Variance reporting helps assess projected vs. actual event performance to the Contribution Margin for each product of the event. “These new planning enhancements are a direct result of our client’s participation in our development plans”, says Jill Natzke, Exec VP. “These enhancements provide the added functionality required for accurate account planning and conclusive performance Analysis. Adesso Solutions will continue to enhance its industry-leading product to provide full account planning functionality and reporting.” About Adesso Solutions Adesso Solutions, a leader in TPM resources for the CPG industry, serves nearly 100 clients with real-time, synergistic solutions to manage their trade promotion activities more profitably and efficiently. Adesso’s five product lines as highlighted below comprehensively help CG companies with trade promotion planning while allowing them to gain valuable insights from the field about trade spending effectiveness. For more information, visit: www.adessosolutions.com. |
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Adesso Ranked No.1 for Customer Experience in Trade Promotion Management (TPM) in Consumer Goods Technology Magazine’s January 2008 Readers’ Choice Survey
Consumer Goods Companies Recognize Adesso’s Innovation and Unsurpassed Capabilities in Customer Experience
Media Contact: First2Mind Marketing: 847.754.8709 Arlington Heights, Il (January 24, 2008) – Adesso Solutions, the leading TPM resource for the CPG industry, today announced its rank as the top vendor in the category of Customer Experience within the Trade Promotion Management by 150 executive readers of Consumer Goods Technology magazine. The Readers’ Choice Survey ranks best-in-class technology providers and consulting firms across 11 different technology categories. More than 150 consumer products executives were asked to identify and rank the technology vendors they currently use, and rank their customer experience using each. Winners were determined by a combined score of sheer number of votes weighed against the customer experience ratings. “Adesso is proud to be selected as one of the top technology vendors in the consumer products industry,” said Tim Vollman, President and CEO, Adesso. “Adesso prides itself on a strategic approach to building and maintaining our customer relationships. We deeply appreciate the fact that our customers continue to recognize us as the leading provider in terms of their overall experience.” Lori Castle, Publisher, Consumer Goods Technology, commented, “Adesso has an impressive customer list. The results of our Readers’ Choice Survey indicate that our readers believe Adesso’s customer service is equally outstanding.” Tim Vollman, President & CEO, Adesso added, "This ranking recognizes Adesso as a powerful and truly unique player that continues to redefine the TPM space for the SMB customer. No other provider can match our breadth and depth of product offerings – and the key to everything is customer service." About Adesso Solutions Adesso Solutions, a leader in TPM resources for the CPG industry, serves nearly 100 clients with real-time, synergistic solutions to manage their trade promotion activities more profitably and efficiently. Adesso’s five product lines as highlighted below comprehensively help CG companies with trade promotion planning while allowing them to gain valuable insights from the field about trade spending effectiveness. For more information, visit: www.adessosolutions.com. About the Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) Readers’ Choice Survey Executed by an autonomous third-party firm on behalf of CGT magazine, the annual Readers’ Choice Survey analyzes responses from more than 150 consumer goods IT and business executives to determine the top ten providers in categories such as Supply Chain Planning, Supply Chain Execution, Trade Promotion Management, New Products Development and Introduction, Demand Data Analytics and more. The survey also determines leaders in Customer Experience and in the SMB market for each category. Results are published in the January 2008 edition of the magazine. For more information, visit: www.consumergoods.com. |
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Arlington Heights, Il (November 1,
2007) – American Pop Corn., creators of Jollytime Popcorn. We
know popcorn better than anyone else. Because they are the original
brand name of popcorn in America. American As an entirely web-based application with enhanced promotion planning, multi-level volume forecasting, users. can effortlessly fine-tune the solution using their business rules while allowing access of Adesso to both their office staff and brokers in the field. The unique features and audits of the Adesso solution allowed Adesso to obtain SAS70 Type II certification, and have positioned them as the most comprehensive and tightly controlled TPM system in the marketplace. Adesso was voted by the broker community as the easiest TPM solution to use, highlighting the significant time savings to enter, execute, and analyze account and promotional plans. Deduction management is driven by the powerful Adesso Workflow Engine. The Workflow Engine automatically drives notification and process steps to collaborate and gain efficiencies throughout the planning, execution, resolution, and analytics processes. Adesso's rule-based system provides the financial controls that consumer product companies require to ensure that business rules are adhered to by retail partners and field sales.
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Adesso and Gelco Merge to Lead TPM Market Arlington Heights, IL., (September 5, 2007)— Adesso Solutions and Gelco Trade Management , both best-in-class Trade Promotion Management (TPM) solution providers, have agreed to combine like businesses to create the strongest, most-comprehensive TPM resource for the CPG industry. Adesso Solutions and Gelco both serve CPG manufacturers in a variety of industries including food, beverages, candy, confection, and others. Their clients demand accurate and timely information to support effective trade promotion management and compliance. Together, the new entity will dominate the TPM market by serving the most extensive client list in the industry with real-time, synergistic solutions that drive down the costs of doing business. The merger will create a staff of 50 professionals and more than 150 customers. Adesso Solutions President and CEO, Tim Vollman, will remain in control of the new business unit and lead the melding of the two companies, marketed under the Adesso Solutions brand. “Merging these two companies brings even greater value and expanded product offerings to our combined customer base,” said Tim Vollman, President and CEO, Adesso Solutions. “We look forward to serving Gelco customers and we enthusiastically welcome our new colleagues from the Gelco team to Adesso Solutions.” We have several new offerings that we believe will significantly benefit the Gelco customer base, said Jill Natzke, Exec VP, Adesso Solutions. Together, with the Gelco team, we look forward to delivering these new offerings, many of which were already in the Gelco roadmap. “Gelco shares Adesso’s passion for delivering continuous value and innovation to our customers,” said Karen Beckwith, CEO/President of Gelco Information Network. “We look forward to working with the Adesso team to provide our clients with an even broader selection of offerings and exciting new innovations to help them control costs and manage trade spending.” Adesso Solutions and Gelco offer a wide variety of
trade management solutions and services to support critical
processes including planning, funds management, deduction
resolution, payments, analysis and reporting, and post-promotion
analysis. About Adesso Adesso Solutions enables Consumer Product Goods (CPG) Manufacturers to efficiently execute and effectively analyze their Account Planning & Forecasting, Trade Promotion spending, Deduction Resolution and Customer Profitability. Adesso's Trade Advantage is a cost effective Microsoft suite-based, integrated technology that enhances teamwork between corporate and the field sales. Adesso clients include Apple & Eve, Barilla of America, Bumble Bee Foods, Idahoan Fresh Pak, Perfetti Van Melle, Phoenix Brands, Reily Foods, Solo Cup and more. For more information, visit Adesso Solutions at www.adessosolutions.com About Gelco Trade Management Group Gelco Trade Management Group, a Gelco Information Network company, leverages its unique knowledge of consumer goods trade practices to provide trade promotion management solutions to the consumer goods industry. Gelco’s on-demand software as a service (SaaS) solution enables information integration throughout the enterprise, helping clients manage trade promotion activities more profitably and efficiently while gaining valuable insights into the effectiveness of trade spending. For more information visit: www.gelcotrade.com # # # This press release contains forward-looking statements that are inherently uncertain. These forward-looking statements, such as the anticipated timing of completion of the acquisition, and statements made by Mr.Vollman and Ms. Beckwith, including the anticipated benefits of broader integration of the Adesso Solutions and Gelco products and services, are based on current expectations and involve many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations. Adesso Solutions assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
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Arlington Heights, IL (June 1, 2007)
-- Adesso Solutions is pleased to announce the deployment of its industry leading Account Planning, Trade Funds, and Deduction
Adesso's rule based system provides the financial controls that an organization like Amerifit Brands requires to insure its business rules are adhered to by all business partners and field Sales. The Adesso Workflow Engine automatically drives notification and process steps to collaborate and gain efficiencies throughout the Planning, Execution, Resolution, and Analytics processes. These features and audits are what allows Adesso Solutions to maintain their SAS70 Type I & II certifications year after year, and have positioned Adesso as the most comprehensive and tightly controlled TPM system in the marketplace. |
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Popcorn been around since 1914 - longer than any one else. American
Pop Corn Company was founded in 1914 and processes and markets JOLLY
TIME® Pop Corn in all 50 states and around the world! 
Adesso
Solutions and Gelco Merge
Arlington Heights, Il (August 1, 2007) - Palermo Villa Inc., creators of
the Palermo Pizza brand of Milwaukee, WI, has chosen to manage their
Consumer Product Goods Trade and Deduction operations with Adesso
Solutions' industry leading Trade and Deductions software package in
conjunction with Adesso-partner IRM Corporation's Discovery System
for Business Intelligence and Analytics . Palermo Villa new
implementation will allow them to utilize Application Program
Interfaces for ongoing transfers between their existing Great Plains
application and Adesso. As an entirely web-based application with
enhanced promotion planning, multi-level volume forecasting, Palermo
Villa Inc. can effortlessly fine-tune the solution using their
business rules while allowing access of Adesso to both their office
staff and brokers in the field.
