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Acosta
Connecting people to the brands they love
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Overview

Acosta provides sales, marketing and commercial solutions to drive your business

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Number of Employees

10,001+

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Services Provided

ConsultingDigital Solutions

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Regions

Europe, North America, Oceania

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Countries

Australia, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States Of America

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Year of foundation

1927

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Structure

Privately Held

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About Us

About the company

Acosta is an integrated sales and marketing services provider that enables consumer packaged goods brands and retailers to win in the modern marketplace by delivering progressive solutions and exceptional service. With more than 90 years of experience, Acosta understands evolving consumer needs and helps its clients and customers stay a step ahead, fueling their accelerated performance.

Our Values

These values inform our behavior as individuals and as a company.


People

Showing dignity and respect to all people and embracing different ideas with humility, encouragement and support for others.

 

Integrity

Behaving in a respectful manner, delivering as promised, and exhibiting open, honest and timely communication.

 

Results

Being driven to excel and deliver both superior client service and project results.

 

Trust

Speaking sincerely and honestly in all situations, always having the client’s best interest in mind, and effectively building trusting relationships with clients, retailers and fellow employees.

 

Teamwork

Performing in an outstanding manner as a team, successfully collaborating and leveraging the strengths of members and supporting one another.

 

Innovation

Developing and implementing ideas resulting in a new or improved product, process or service.

 

Balance

Being good corporate citizens by leading in our communities and giving back through volunteer service.

Why working with us

Change is in the air. You can see it, sense it, but can you manage it? Acosta has discovered four mega trends driving change in the industry today including demographic shifts, channel blur, health and wellness and a digital revolution. Watch how these shifts drive industry change.


Only Acosta combines critical expertise, technological innovation and extensive reach for seamless solutions with superior results.


Critical Expertise

Acosta has the talent and technology to construct data-driven strategies; the reach and relationships to execute against those strategies; and the tools to monitor, track and optimize metric-based results for clients and retailers.

 

Diverse Talent

Our A-Team is made up of more than 20,000 associates, many of them having worked at prominent consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, leading retailers or marketing agencies. Sharing perspectives across channels and backgrounds, Acosta’s nimble workforce takes a proactive approach to collaborating with clients, driving swift action to grow sales and market share when opportunities arise.

 

Innovative Technology

Acosta’s ability to connect real-time data into its comprehensive sales and marketing platform delivers insight that matters to clients. Our retail merchandising employees leverage advanced mobile technology that uses daily point-of-sale data to track, analyze and optimize in-store activities, establishing automation for a variety of complex processes while capturing information to drive faster, more effective decision-making.

 

Extensive Reach

Within every sales channel and virtually every retail environment, Acosta leverages its near century of experience, growing international presence and dominance in an array of categories to influence more sales for more clients than any other company.

 

Trusted Partnerships

Many of our relationships originated over 50 years ago and continue to thrive today due to the exceptional value and client service we provide. In addition to having long-standing relationships with high-profile brands such as Campbell’s®, Clorox®, Kellogg’s®, and Microsoft®, we also enjoy partnerships with almost every leading retailer and wholesaler, including Kroger, Walmart, Costco and PetSmart.

 

Maximum ROI

Acosta is an investment for its clients, not an expense. As such, we are committed to delivering measurable returns for clients and retailers. In addition to higher sales, improved efficiencies and lower costs, Acosta delivers an average brand share of 3.7 percent to full-service clients, more than 2 percent higher than brands managed by other brokers or in-house teams.

 

Inclusion & Diversity

Acosta is committed to fostering an inclusive, accountable and empowering culture that celebrates the differences of our diverse workforce and reflects our core values. We seek to create an environment where each associate can bring their whole true self to work with assurance that their contributions are heard, seen and valued in a safe and accepting manner. We are actively pursuing these goals by focusing on the following areas: 

 

1. Applicant sourcing – Striving for diverse talent pools for our open positions 

 

2. Candidate selection – Aspiring to be free of bias in our talent selection and promotion processes 

 

3. Associate development – Creating opportunities for all associates to grow their careers at Acosta and be recognized for their contributions 

 

4. Client and vendor relationships – Partnering with vendors, clients and customers to pursue initiatives that support our commitment to inclusion and diversity 

 

 

While this is a small step forward in our approach to altering the corporate landscape for an inclusive environment, we are confident that these initial actions will help us create a stronger, more inclusive company that is representative of the world we want to live in.