Yakult’s New Product Sales in the Netherlands Increase 15 to 20% with Spotfire Competitive advantage, better retailer relations, and greater productivity CHALLENGE As Yakult Market Analyst Egbert Jan Vierkant explains, in the first several years in Europe, Yakult sales grew steadily, but suddenly, after competitors began to enter the market, something surprising happened. “We had an extraordinary sales increase, especially in the Netherlands.” The company wanted to know why, but tools like Excel were not suitable. “We were suffering from time-consuming analysis, mistakes, and spreadsheets. We had multiple data sources that we could not bring together. We were spending time on gathering and collecting information instead of on thinking about the business.” SOLUTION Yakult chose TIB

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