Chico's Drives Same-Store Sales With SAS® Customer Intelligence
SAS launches enhanced customer intelligence suite at NRF 2011
NRF 100th Annual Convention and EXPO, NEW YORK– Chico's FAS Inc. can better reach sophisticated female customers by automating and better targeting marketing campaigns with SAS® OnDemand: Marketing Automation. SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, has helped Chico's maximize customer information since 2009. Today, SAS offers even higher performance for customers with enhancements to its customer intelligence suite, which debut at NRF 2011.
"Our executives are so excited about the insights they are gaining about the customer – where she shops and the department that brought her into the brand," said Gary King, Chico's CIO. "Before, we couldn't automate processes, there were a lot of operational inefficiencies, it was inflexible and we were using low-level tools. It led us to look at different ways to operate our campaign management. The difference for our campaign team is night and day. A campaign now takes four days to pull together versus 30 days prior to using SAS. This has allowed the team to create more targeted campaigns for our clientele."
SAS OnDemand: Marketing Automation's cost-effective, hosted model lets customers create marketing campaigns more quickly, gaining a single view of the customer across multiple brands and insights into strategy and segmentation. For Chico's, SAS OnDemand: Marketing Automation tripled the lift on a campaign to regain lapsed customers and improved cross promotion throughout all brands. Using SAS to help plan its 2009 holiday promotions, Chico's reported a $17M profit versus a $42M loss in the same quarter in 2008.
SAS OnDemand: Marketing Automation joins the enhanced SAS Customer Intelligence suite. Among the many enhancements, better integration of online analytics and offline sources will let customers synchronize marketing activities across the enterprise.
"The tables are turned: Customers know more about retailers – their merchandise, competitors, prices," said Diana McHenry, SAS Global Retail Product Marketing. "With SAS Customer Intelligence, retailers can understand their customers' Web behavior, their sentiment in social media, what their market baskets look like, and how to create a 1-to-1 relationship, tailored promotions and more. We are proud to have great retail and CPG brands like Chico's, Wakefern, 1-800-FLOWERS,COM, Catalina Marketing, Lotte.com, Staples, Redcats and many more heightening performance with SAS Customer Intelligence solutions."
Learn more at the Monday morning Big Ideas Session during NRF Big Show
Jeff Jones, Chico's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, will discuss "The Essential Ps of Retail Leadership" at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 10, in Room 3D08 during the NRF 100th Annual Convention and EXPO in New York.
Boosting performance for retailers
SAS' unparalleled retail business knowledge coupled with powerful, advanced analytics support flexible lifecycle merchandise planning through a variety of investment, deployment and growth options.
SAS retail customers include Aeropostale, AutoZone, Bakers Footwear, Brooks Brothers, Burger King, Cabela's, Carrefour, Casino, Casual Male, Charming Shoppes, Chico's, The Children's Place, Eddie Bauer, Family Dollar, Gander Mountain, Hallmark, Hudson's Bay Company, Kohl's, Luxottica Retail, Macy's, Mark's Work Wearhouse, Marks & Spencer, Northern Tool & Equipment, Office Depot, S-Group, Sainsbury's, ShopKo, Sport Chalet, Spiegel Brands, Staples, Tesco, Tween Brands, Waitrose, Wakefern, Williams-Sonoma and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM.
For more information about SAS® Retail Intelligence Solutions and SAS Customer Intelligence Solutions, visit http://www.sas.com. Visit SAS at the NRF 100th Annual Show and EXPO in Booth 1352.
About Chico's FAS Inc.
The Company is a women's specialty retailer of private branded, sophisticated, casual-to-dressy clothing, intimates, complementary accessories, and other non-clothing gift items. The company operates 1,153 specialty stores, including stores in 48 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The Chico's brand currently operates 598 boutique and 63 outlet stores, publishes a catalog during key shopping periods throughout the year, and conducts e-commerce at http://www.chicos.com/. White House | Black Market currently operates 344 boutique and 21 outlet stores, publishes a catalog highlighting its latest fashions and conducts e-commerce at http://www.whbm.com/. Soma Intimates is the Company's developing concept with 119 boutique stores and 8 outlet stores today. Soma Intimates also publishes a catalog for its current customers and conducts e-commerce at http://www.soma.com.
About SAS
SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 50,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.
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