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
Papers and Presentations

Over the last several years, either individually or in collaboration with associates, Mike has written and presented a variety of articles on the subject of Pricing and Revenue Management, a subject of particular personal interest. All of these presentations are focused on the opportunity to leverage pricing to improve profitability and image and several of the articles address some of the challenges and best practices associated with such an effort. These papers and presentations are listed below.

  • Presented "Retail Revenue Management Roadmap - The Route to Customer-Centric Price and Promotions Management," Professional Pricing Society Spring Conference, Las Vegas, April 2003.
  • Presented "Process and Organization Implications of Retail Revenue Management," Symposium on Retail Relationships - Linking Customers, Pricing and Promotion through Technology, Royal Society of Arts, London, April 2003.
  • Co-author, "Precision Pricing," presented by my co-author at the retail industry National Retail Federation Annual Convention, NYC, January, 2002.
  • Co-presenter "Improving the Precision of Pricing Analysis," Professional Pricing Society Fall Conference, Chicago, November, 2001.
  • Co-author "The Precision Pricing Revolution: Customer-Based Pricing Strategies in the New Economy," International Trends in Retailing, Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, December, 2000
  • Co-author "At What Price - Guidelines for a Customer-Focused Pricing Strategy," Arthur Andersen Business Consulting Whitepaper. Received more than 20,000 hits to date through Internet hot link.
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