Consumer-centric category management

In 1992, Category Management, Positioning Your Organization to Win, was written by ACNielsen (then Nielsen Marketing Research) and published by NTC Business Books._ Much has changed since then. New technologies, new approaches, new perspectives have significantly altered the category management landscape, leading to the need for a new book on the topic. ; Historically, category management has been a process in which product categories are managed as business units. For example, a supermarket's carbonated beverages department would be managed as a small business within the larger store. Somewhere along the way, however, category management practitioners became so focused on the numbers-price points, margins, turn rates, etc.-that the consumer got edged out of their equations._ Today, category management is evolving into shopper management._ This new book will reflect that much-needed change, focusing on using categories to target the "right" shopper segments to ensure the long-term health of a retailer's shopper base in support of its strategic plan. ;