News & Press

March 18, 2011

Specialty Products Consultants chooses XS, Inc. to take its
market research studies online

Mendham, NJ (March 18, 2011) – Specialty Products Consultants, LLC, (SPC) the leading provider of pesticide market research to the U.S. Turf and Ornamental and Structural Pest Control markets, has partnered with XS, Inc. to enhance its processes and the product delivery format to SPC clients. SPC employed XS technology to expand their backend process of compiling survey responses from over 2,000 end users, representing seven unique professional markets. From the new database, XS now serves up the client facing, “Strategic Analysis” reports in a new online, searchable Wiki format to replace the former hard copy.

“We are very pleased with the new backend process” said Gary Curl, President of SPC, “it has dramatically expanded the amount of data that we can offer to our clients. Our subscribers are also excited about the online Wiki delivered format because of the increased usability and accessibility the study will have for their marketing and business managers.”

“We were very happy that Gary gave us the opportunity to work with him on enhancing his Strategic Analysis reports from both the data management and the user experience perspectives” said Harry Albert, Vice President of Business Development at XS. “He has already experienced a big “win” on the data management side by being able to deliver more detailed data to his clients.” We also think his clients will really like the new web-delivered Wiki interface to access the reports”

SPC and XS first began their collaboration in 2005 as they developed and introduced SPCexpress™, the Turf & Ornamental and Structural Pest Control industry’s first transaction-based market research service.

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About SPC
Founded in 2000, Specialty Products Consultants is the recognized leading provider of market research studies to the specialty (non-crop) pesticide industry. SPC clients include a significant majority of the suppliers serving the professional turf and ornamental and structural pest control markets. (www.spcresearch.com)

About XS Inc.
XS is the leader in scalable, comprehensive and closed-loop e-commerce systems for highly regulated products. It is also the crop protection industry leader in transaction data collection, analysis, on-line reporting and integration into actionable tools for its clients. (www.xsinc.com)

 

For more information, please contact:

Gary Curl
Specialty Products Consultants, LLC
gcurl@spcresearch.com
(973) 543-5195

Harry Albert
XS, Inc.
halbert@xsinc.com
(919) 379-3515