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Understanding and Strengthening Business Partnerships

For more than three decades, Advantage has helped retailers and suppliers strengthen business relationships through independent benchmarking and evidence-based insight across global markets.

 

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About Advantage

Advancing Retailer–Supplier Collaboration

Advantage Group International (AGI) helps organizations understand and strengthen the capabilities that shape retailer–supplier relationships.

Through a consistent global benchmarking framework, AGI gathers independent feedback from business partners and analyzes performance across markets, categories, and organizations. This structured approach helps retailers and suppliers understand how their partnerships are experienced, where alignment is strongest, where gaps exist, and where improvement will have the greatest impact.

By translating partner feedback into clear priorities, AGI enables organizations to focus on the actions that strengthen collaboration, improve execution, and support more effective commercial partnerships across the industry.

What we do

AGI provides independent benchmarking and partnership insight that helps retailers and suppliers understand how their business partners experience the relationship and where improvement will have the greatest impact. 
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How We Do It

Through structured benchmarking, expert analysis, and guidance from experienced Engagement Advisors, Advantage helps organizations translate partner feedback into practical actions that strengthen collaboration and improve performance. 
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Independent Insight for the Industry

Advantage provides evidence-based benchmarking and industry insight that helps retailers and suppliers understand partnership performance and identify opportunities to strengthen collaboration.

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What Our Cilents Say

 

Bruno Olierhoek headshot, Former Chairman and Managing Director of Nestlé ESAR
Featured story with Nestle

Bruno Olierhoek, the former Chairman and Managing Director of Nestlé ESAR, highlights Advantage Report’s pivotal role in fostering productive collaboration with retailers and emphasizes how its objective feedback enhanced their collaborative efforts. The report’s ability to track progress over time was key in initiating meaningful discussions based on the valuable feedback received.

Bruno Olierhoek
Former Chairman and Managing Director of Nestlé ESAR
Paul de Hartog headshot, Global Head of Point of Sale Execution
Featured story with Unilever

Global Head of Point of Sale Execution for Unilever, Paul de Hartog, explains why accessing customer feedback through Advantage improved the company’s understanding of its customers. Listen to Paul share how collaborating with Advantage helped Unilever better navigate its customer relationships and become a more customer-centric company.

Paul de Hartog
Global Head of Point of Sale Execution
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Featured story with Lassonde

Josianne Légaré, SVP of Sales at Lassonde, shares why customer engagement is foundational to building stronger relationships with retailers. She goes on to express how listening to and understanding their customers’ unique perspectives aids in building more strategic partnerships, made possible by Advantage.

Josianne Légaré
Senior Vice-President, U.S. Sales

 

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Featured story with Johnson & Johnson

Discover how the Advantage Report™ provided a clear and consistent diagnostic of hot spots in business performance by functional area at Johnson & Johnson. There is a direct correlation between Advantage scores and business results; “it became a diagnostic of how the business would perform.”

James Mounter
Head of Global Capabilities

 

Ed Van De Weerd headshot, Commercial Director
Featured story with JUMBO

Uncover how JUMBO utilizes the Advantage Report™ as a tool to start a dialogue that together builds businesses. “Collaborative relationships are crucial”

Ed Van De Weerd
Commercial Director

Global Reach, Local Expertise

Advantage operates across over 45 countries worldwide, providing retailers and suppliers with comparable insight into partnership performance across diverse markets.