Fresh Features by ADC

ADC held our 14th annual ReFresh Fresh Item Management (FIM) Conference from September 21-24, 2015 at the Sheraton Sand Key in Clearwater Beach, Florida.  This year’s ReFresh attendees represented twenty three retailers, making it the largest conference in ReFresh history.

The ReFresh agenda included informative subject matter expert presenters, FIM software presentations from ADC (including retail experience presentations), and retailer-chaired roundtable discussions.

Agenda highlights included:

• Federal Regulatory Update: What Retailers Need to Know by Erik R. Lieberman, president of U.S. Food Imports LLC and principal of Lieberman PLLC.  Erik shared the latest information on key regulations impacting retailers, including the FDA’s Menu Labeling Regulation and the proposed ruling on Meat Grind Management from FSIS. 
• U.S. Grocery Shopper Trend Report by David Fikes, Vice President of Consumer/Community Affairs and Communications at the Food Marketing Institute. David shared findings from FMI’s recent report, including insight into why individual food shoppers make the decisions they do in supermarkets.

Retailer Feedback:

• “Lots of important information presented in an interesting manner.  Thank you!”
• “The conference was informative and well planned.  The networking opportunities are a great benefit.  Thank you for a wonderful and informative conference!”
• “Nicely setup with good networking breaks.”

Sponsor Interaction – This year’s ReFresh was supported by 10 of ADC’s industry partners, including Bizerba, BRdata, DBK Concepts, Hobart, Janam, Mettler Toledo, NBI Digi, Rice Lake Retail Solutions, Specialty Printing and Truno. 

About Applied Data Corporation (ADC)
Since 1989, Applied Data Corporation (ADC) has specialized in the development of data-management solutions for the supermarket, grocery and fresh-food industries. The InterScale scales management software developed by ADC is a global technology leader for host management of supermarket barcode-printing scales and printers. The InterScale system is a member of ADC's InterStore suite of fresh applications which also includes: NutriGen recipe management and P-Cubed shrink management, fresh inventory management, perishable production planning and demand-driven ordering.  InterStore consolidates ADC's lead in the Fresh Item Management (FIM) software market with an integrated fresh software suite to provide greater efficiencies and optimize production in the grocer's fresh-food departments. ADC has over 125 supermarket chains and over 10,000 stores installed in 11 countries.  For more information on ADC visit www.AppliedDataCorp.com.