GNC Takes Omni-channel Route To Counter Mass-Market, Online Pressures
Executive Summary
Strategy will bring firm’s sales platforms together to present products where and when customers shop. CEO Kenneth Martindale says firm also will use those platforms to expand sales through “significant” white spaces in the 50 countries in which it competes.
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