Our company

Our business stands upon the foundation of five great, legacy businesses. With a combined 38 years of technology and expertise from inception to the acquisition, Planet Retail, RetailNet Group, One Click Retail, Clavis Insight and Brand View each was previously a world market leader in its respective areas of specialty.

Planet Retail, founded in 2001 in London, England, was one of the first businesses dedicated to helping FMCGs prepare for their annual range/assortment review. With data quality at the heart of any range review, Planet Retail was a pioneer in the industry by moving to an online solution that eased access to their database of comparable global retailer data, insights and forecasts. Planet Retail was acquired by Ascential (then known as EMAP) in 2007.

RetailNet Group, founded in 2006 in Waltham, Massachusetts, was the leading insight and advisory firm with specialized expertise in forward-thinking guidance on retail growth, with particular foresight to focus on ecommerce long before most of the industry were aware of this emerging opportunity. RNG was famous for its future orientation and taking complex ideas and datasets, and translating them into actionable insights. RNG was acquired by Ascential (then known as Top Right Group) in 2015.

One Click Retail, founded in 2013 in Salt Lake City, Utah, was the first to provide accurate and reliable market share estimates to brands selling on Amazon.com. Over seven years the company developed more than 1,500 algorithms, more than 250 machine learning features to power applications, proprietary mapping, and matching algorithms, and proactive data accuracy quality control measures that go three levels deep. One Click Retail was acquired by Ascential in 2016.

Clavis Insight, founded in 2008 in Dublin, Ireland, pioneered the concept of creating a global set of data to measure comparable digital shelf performance across retailers, regions, markets, and countries, down to the location or zip/postcode level. The solution sets the standard for real-time and daily measurement of the five Essential KPIs: Availability, Search, Content, Reviews, and Price. Clavis Insight was acquired by Ascential in 2017.

Brand View, founded in 2008 in Reading, England, was the leading international provider of real-time price, promotions, and online product positioning analytics. The solution helped brands and retailers drive growth and margins with tools for planning, executing, and analyzing optimal pricing and promotions strategies. Brand View was acquired by Ascential in 2018.

Today, we are proud to be one company with a steady focus on how we evolve our solutions to maintain our place as the market leaders in digital commerce. Edge by Ascential is headquartered at 7 Savoy Court in London, next door to the iconic Savoy Theater. Additional offices are located in Reading, England; Boston, Massachusetts; Salt Lake City, UT; Dublin, Ireland; Paris, France; Shanghai, China; Frankfurt, Germany; Stamford, Connecticut; New York, New York.

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Ascential is a specialist, global, information company that helps the world’s most ambitious businesses win in the digital economy. In an increasingly complex, digitally-driven world, we enable smart decision-making for the world’s most ambitious businesses, helping the world’s top consumer product and service companies understand what’s important and how to act on it – today, and in the future.

Our information, insights, connections, data and digital tools solve customer problems in three disciplines:

PRODUCT DESIGN via global trend forecasting service WGSN;

MARKETING via global benchmark for creative excellence and effectiveness Cannes Lions and WARC and strategic advisory firm MediaLink;

SALES via accurate and actionable ecommerce platform Edge by Ascential, provider of managed services to consumer product companies trading on Amazon Flywheel Digital, the world's premier payments and FinTech congress Money20/20, global retail industry summit World Retail Congress and Retail Week.

Ascential also powers political, construction and environmental intelligence brands DeHavilland, Glenigan and Groundsure.