VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TELUS is broadening its business technique to ship knowledge insights and a variety of built-in digital options to prospects past the agricultural sector, and altering the identify of its agriculture unit to TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods as a sign of its dedication. Rapidly rising its property and capabilities since its launch practically two years in the past, the newly rebranded unit is now properly positioned to attach individuals throughout your complete worth chain, from seed growers to meals and shopper items retailers, and allow them to make sound, agile, data-driven business choices to attenuate prices and waste. Leveraging the most recent know-how, the {industry} experience of its world group, synthetic intelligence and TELUS’ Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities, TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods goals to vastly enhance the best way meals and different items are produced, distributed and consumed, and the way these processes impression internet profitability and shopper worth, with a view to assuaging pointless pressure on our pure assets. Currently, a couple of in 5 TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods prospects are producers of packaged meals, drinks and merchandise that embody every little thing from cosmetics to bakeware and batteries.
“At TELUS, we are proud to direct our human and technological innovation toward answering some of the most significant social challenges facing our world. This includes ensuring global access to a nutritious food supply that is safe, secure and connected, whilst at the same time, helping to effectively manage the disconcerting amount of goods that never end up in the hands of consumers due to waste, spoilage, quality issues and inaccurate forecasting,” stated Darren Entwistle, President and CEO of TELUS. “Through our expanded TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods business, our team is committed to leveraging our technology-driven efforts to optimize the production of food and consumer goods in a manner that is more sustainable and environmentally friendly. Together, we are caring for the planet for future generations, and improving outcomes for citizens and families around the world.”
Pre-consumer waste presents a bunch of great points, notably because it piles up on this planet’s more and more overburdened landfills, that are among the many largest sources of greenhouse fuel emissions. It’s estimated that no less than one third of meals alone is misplaced or wasted globally earlier than it reaches buying baskets. By tackling the agriculture and shopper items industries’ complicated knowledge harmonization and administration challenges, and placing knowledge to work producing real-time actionable intelligence, TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods is making it simpler for worth chain individuals to collaborate and improve processes, permitting them to adapt extra swiftly to evolving shopper preferences.
“Our solutions digitize and optimize key business functions along the entire value chain, from production to trade promotion management, improving efficiency and profitability. We believe that by better connecting these solutions and using the data insights that they offer, we can create more value for the entire value chain. At the same time, we can improve the safety, quality and sustainability of food and other goods, all in a way that is traceable and clear to the end consumer,” says John Raines, President of TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods. “TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods is the largest, independent data insights and digital technology player in this sector, and our new name captures the breadth of the market we now serve.”
TELUS Agriculture’s enlargement has included the addition of a sequence of property to the business unit’s unmatched and rising portfolio, specifically Blacksmith Applications in 2021. The U.S.-based firm is a number one supplier of commerce promotion administration, optimization and analytics (TPx) options for shopper packaged items producers and retailers. With a presence on 5 continents, the TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods group now works with six of the ten high meals and beverage suppliers and 9 out of the ten largest agriculture firms on this planet.
About TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods
TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods is a number one world know-how supplier delivering knowledge insights and digital options to agriculture, meals and shopper items prospects in 60 nations with a view to creating higher producer-to-consumer outcomes. Backed by a worldwide group of 1,600 consultants throughout Canada, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Armenia, Germany, China, and Australia, TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods provides a rising record of built-in options for analytics, knowledge, provide chain, commerce promotion, farm and livestock manufacturing administration. By leveraging know-how and knowledge, TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods is making a unified, trusted and sustainable worth chain to allow extra environment friendly manufacturing and logistics, whereas decreasing the impression on the atmosphere, to progress its imaginative and prescient of remodeling provide chains and making the long run pleasant.
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About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, NYSE: TU) is a dynamic, world-leading communications know-how firm with $17 billion in annual income and 17 million buyer connections spanning wi-fi, knowledge, IP, voice, tv, leisure, video, and safety. Our social goal is to leverage our global-leading know-how and compassion to drive social change and allow outstanding human outcomes. Our longstanding dedication to placing our prospects first fuels each facet of our business, making us a definite chief in customer support excellence and loyalty. The quite a few, sustained accolades TELUS has earned through the years from unbiased, industry-leading community perception companies showcase the power and pace of TELUS’ global-leading networks, reinforcing our dedication to offer Canadians with entry to superior know-how that connects us to the folks, assets and knowledge that make our lives higher.
TELUS Health is Canada’s chief in digital well being know-how, enhancing entry to well being and wellness providers and revolutionizing the movement of well being info throughout the continuum of care. TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods is a worldwide know-how supplier of modern knowledge insights and digital options, making a unified, trusted and sustainable worth chain. TELUS International (TSX and NYSE: TIXT) is a number one digital buyer expertise innovator that designs, builds, and delivers next-generation options, together with AI and content material moderation, for world and disruptive manufacturers throughout high-growth {industry} verticals, together with tech and video games, communications and media and ecommerce and FinTech. TELUS and TELUS International function in 28 nations world wide.
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