As consumers continue to demand healthier foods, greater transparency of ingredients and comprehensive, clean labeling, members look to Topco’s Quality Assurance team to help ensure safety, quality and regulatory-compliant products and packaging. Quality Assurance continued its deep-rooted dedication to safety and quality through rigorous product monitoring, surveillance and testing as its regulatory compliance team tracked and proactively assessed the business impact of topics such as FSMA, Nutrition Labeling Reform, partially hydrogenated oil and GMOs.

With a focus on data and analytics, Topco is leading the way for members with unique and innovative Data Solutions that drive incremental value. These initiatives deliver an end-to-end Data Analytics Solution that spans the entire lifecycle of members’ businesses, from the buy side through to the sell side. Leveraging aggregate member data will provide enhanced insights not available today to any single member.

Topco’s Marketing team provides shopper-centric and data-driven solutions to ensure it is creating winning brands that build sales and loyalty to members’ stores. Always looking to provide members with the latest shopper insights and customer-driven data, in 2016 alone the Marketing team completed research with over 7,300 member shoppers. Topco’s comprehensive own brand portfolio enables members to reach a broad cross-section of their shoppers with relevant, compelling offerings, in addition to reaching the price-sensitive shopper.