PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J.– Market Performance Group (MPG) today named Carla Pettigrew as senior director of sales, with oversight of its Costco team. Pettigrew is a former sales executive at Johnson & Johnson’s Consumer Healthcare division (now Kenvue) and she has more than two decades of experience driving significant sales growth in the warehouse club channel,
PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J. – The Market Performance Group announces the passing of Rhonda Johnson after a brief battle with metastatic melanoma. Rhonda was a respected and dynamic consumer packaged goods (CPG) and healthcare leader who held senior executive positions with companies that include Market Performance Group (MPG), Merck Consumer Care, McNeil Nutritionals and Johnson &
PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J. – Market Performance Group (MPG) announced a new partnership with Bryan Gildenberg and Confluencer Commerce, combining MPG’s unmatched omnichannel strategic, executional, and operational expertise with Gildenberg’s cutting edge thought leadership. The partnership will further drive thought leadership in omnichannel commerce, helping brands, retailers and their trading partners most effectively bring together the
PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J. – Market Performance Group (MPG), a leading, end-to-end CPG strategy and services company, today announced the appointment of former Wakefern Food Corp. executive Chris Skyers as executive vice president, grocery, effective immediately. Skyers will have wide-ranging responsibilities leading all aspects of the Grocery Channel, supporting high-level strategic planning and management of a
PRINCETON, N.J. – Market Performance Group (MPG) is launching its first-ever Diverse Supplier Development Program, a newly created Accelerator program designed to provide pro-bono support for selected diverse suppliers and entrepreneurs as they prepare to engage and sell their products in digital and traditional retail channels. This event comes on the heels of a successful
PRINCETON, N.J. – Market Performance Group, LLC (MPG)—a leading provider of consulting, sales strategy and account management, business analytics, marketing & communications, and distribution/order to cash services to consumer health, personal care, food, and other CPG brands across brick and mortar and eCommerce retail channels—announced today that the company has acquired and hired additional expertise
PRINCETON – Market Performance Group LLC (MPG) has acquired The Luminations Group (Luminations). The acquisition of Luminations adds strengths in innovation, marketing strategy, and interim marketing solutions, the company said on Monday. Luminations is a privately held leader in marketing innovation and strategy serving clients in traditional consumer packaged goods and health care fields as
PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J. ‒ Market Performance Group (MPG) has named Jason Reiser, former chief merchandising officer of Dollar General, and former executive at The Vitamin Shoppe, Family Dollar, and Sam’s Club to MPG’s newly created position of president, sales strategy and services beginning March 8, 2021. MPG is a uniquely positioned services organization comprised of
PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J. — Market Performance Group recently announced that Linda Voracek and Courtney O’Grady will be joining the company to lead specialty broker teams for beauty and value accounts, respectively. A multifaceted merchandising executive with robust retail beauty experience and a strong track record of accomplishing results, Voracek is passionate about spearheading transformational
PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J. — Market Performance Group LLC (MPG) has hired retail industry veterans Bill Bergin and Todd Matherly to serve as executive vice presidents of the consulting and sales management services company. Bergin, who recently served as joins MPG from his position as group vice president of health and beauty at Rite Aid, will
PRINCETON, N.J. — Market Performance Group (MPG) has hired George Cleary as managing partner and general manager of its consulting and sales services businesses. MPG said Monday that Cleary, most recently president of global fragrances for Elizabeth Arden, brings more than 25 years of sales, marketing, and general management experience and will report to MPG
PRINCETON, N.J. — Retail industry veteran and former Walmart executive John Westling Sr., president of sales services at Market Performance Group (MPG), passed away on Monday. He was 60. Westling joined MPG as president of sales services in April 2013 after running his own consulting firm serving consumer packaged goods (CPG) retailers and manufacturers for