Jon Winslow is Global Portfolio Director for the Location Intelligence Business at Pitney Bowes Business Insight. The Pitney Bowes Insights 2010 Conference is May 12-14 in Miami.

The Agribusiness and Food Industry has grown to be a multi-billion dollar business that strives to feed the world. It is an industry that involves farmers, ranchers, food producers, seed supply, agrichemicals, farm machinery, wholesale and distribution, processing, marketing, and retail sales. The industry is increasingly facing . . .

Pitney Bowes acquired MapInfo in 2007 and has been integrating location intelligence into its core mailstream products and services to deliver targeted advertising benefits to its customers. Pitney Bowes is leveraging its mail services platform and the basic business requirement of mailing information to customers—like bills, products, or promotions—to optimize the cost efficiency of these processes and to drive new revenues for its customers.

Critigen, the IT Consulting and Managed Services Arm of CH2M HILL, a 62-year-old engineering company with $6.4 billion in revenues, was divested from CH2M HILL on September 16, 2009. Critigen made its debut as the leading information management solutions provider for modernizing critical infrastructure on October 19, 2009.

In a down economy, the biggest challenge for the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry is the ability to leverage all available tools to minimize cost and move inventory. The healthy food business continues to grow as people become more …

The cable industry is fundamentally a location-based business with a plant and customers tied to specific locations, yet management is just beginning to realize, develop, and invest in the power of location data or GIS (geographic information systems) beyond engineering.

The National Geographic Society is at the forefront of geographically based consumer products. For 120 years, the society has been inspiring people to care about the world in which we live and about the planet we inhabit.