GoldStar Consulting - Welcome! Thank you for visiting our website. We'll use this page to briefly introduce you to GoldStar Consulting, explain our Mission and describe how we've designed this site. GoldStar Consulting - Mission and Goal - GoldStar Consulting was founded in 2003 to provide affordable, high quality consulting services to medium-sized firms in the retail and packaged goods community. Our efforts concentrate in the areas of business process improvement, business strategy development, pricing and revenue management, organization alignment and merchandising systems evaluation.
GoldStar Consulting - Through its founder, Michael J. Gold (Mike), GoldStar draws on both extensive experience in retail and packaged goods industries and eight years of retail and CPG consulting with the business consulting units of Arthur Andersen, LLC and BearingPoint. In addition, through numerous affiliations with other small, like-minded consulting groups, GoldStar has access to a wide range of additional resources

Customers and Alliances

Link: RVS - Retail Vision Systems Retail Vision Systems is a provider of strategic, comprehensive and practical systems solutions for packaged goods retailers. We provide headquarters merchandising applications in item maintenance, price management and promotion planning.
Link: The Everest Group - Management Consulting The Everest Group is a management consulting firm specializing in the identification of profitable growth opportunities and the development of the strategic framework and associated action plans that will allow each to be successful in the market.
Link: MRDesignWorks - Web Design & Hosting for Small and Medium Sized Businesses MRDesignWorks is an energetic award winning web design - hosting - marketing company located in Chicago, IL. They specialize in web design, redesign, hosting and maintenance for small to medium sized businesses.
Retail Analysts  
Link: AMR Research AMR Research is an independent research analyst firm committed to providing unbiased, frank analysis on the enterprise software sector working with both the users and providers of technology to ensure that we have a clear, objective picture of a market or industry before publishing our research.
Link: Retail Forward Retail Forward is a global management consulting and market research firm specializing in retailing and consumer products marketing.
Memberships  
Link: Professional Pricing Society The Professional Pricing Society is The Resource Center dedicated to pricing professionals and those who set and manage prices for their firms.
Website Awards  
Winner of the Golden Web Awards 2003-2004 GoldStar Consulting is an April 2004 winner of the prestigious Golden Web Awards of 2003-2004. The Golden Web Awards are presented by The International Association of Web Masters and Designers. Please visit Official Award Winner to verify our winning award status.
 Winner of the Gold Artsy Award

GoldStar Consulting is an April 2004 winner of the Gold Artsy Award.

"Artsy Awards is one of the most reputed on the web and is very difficult to achieve, as we get it judged through a well-devised criteria." - Artsy Award

Winner of The World Wide Web Awards Gold for 2004-05

GoldStar Consulting is an April 2004 winner of The World Wide Web Awards "Gold" Award 2004-2005.

"Congratulations! Your site has been selected to receive the World Wide Web Awards "Gold" Award. We see all the hard work and dedication that you have put into constructing your web site and your efforts are well deserved. Your site displays: Excellent Design and Layout of Website, with quality content and informative information for your visitors. Your site is a wonderful contribution to the Internet Community."
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Winner of the Golden Web Award 2004-2005 from The American Association Of Webmasters Awards. GoldStar Consulting is an April 2004 winner of The American Association Of Webmasters, "Gold" Award.
"Congratulations! Your site at: GoldStar Consulting has been selected to receive The American Association Of Webmasters, "Gold" Award. We see all the hard work and dedication that you have put into constructing your web site and your efforts are well deserved. Your site displays: Excellent Design and Layout of Website, with quality content and informative information for your visitors."
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content award GoldStar Consulting is an April 2004 winner of the PBSC Content award for quality, quantity, usefulness and information.
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