BUYERS

The proprietary prices found on COMTELL allow buyers to contract their long-term and short-term needs, analyze existing deals against history, and evaluate day-to-day market trends. COMTELL offers buyers insight they can trust to follow and analyze supply data with value-added statistics and analytics provided only by Urner Barry’s expert market reporters. Buyers can confidently negotiate transactions, formulate forward pricing structures and gain a better perspective of emerging market trends so they can be more confident in their business decisions.

PROCESSORS

COMTELL gives you a global perspective on the markets, allowing you to understand driving factors behind the current and upcoming supply trends. Access to production and supply information give processors the ability to understand and plan around the conditions impacting the market. Price comparison tools help to ensure processors have a handle on raw material costs and the ability to maximize their potential in the market.

FOODSERVICE

Confidently negotiate spot transactions, as well as short-term and long-term contracts with suppliers and vendors using transformative market intelligence provided by COMTELL. Enhance your planning and drive sales while keeping abreast of the overall scope of the market. Make the most of promotional efforts and planning with the ability to monitor inventory levels, seasonal trends, and keynews, hand-selected by the Urner Barry editorial team.

RETAILERS

COMTELL helps retailers across their planning, purchasing, and strategic initiatives. Access historical data to compare quotations, spreads, seasonal factors and other key statistics in order to make sound strategic positions. Take the guesswork out of the market when negotiating contracts or benchmarking current deals against spot pricing and history. Decades of price and supply data allow retailers to plan their strategy, from promotions and inventory timing to automating pricing.

TRADERS

COMTELL gives you the pulse of the protein market through the unbiased perspective of Urner Barry’s expert market reporters. Through pricing, charting, and portfolio management tools, COMTELL gives traders the ability to negotiate more effectively and take advantage of developing opportunities within the market. Subscribers stay aware of potential pitfalls, understand the complexities of seasonal market fluctuations, and gain insight into the overall protein marketplace, both domestically and abroad.

BROKERS

Make strategic investments by understanding the tone of the market each day with COMTELL. Discover untapped opportunities and transform them into an actionable plan with unmatched data, proprietary analytics and exclusive market insight from expert market analysts. Create a portfolio of key items to evaluate opportunity each day and be alerted if spreads reach a critical threshold that might otherwise be missed.

PACKERS

Packers use COMTELL’s data and analysis to validate critical business decisions, saving research time and granting a greater perspective on domestic and international markets. Price and statistical comparison tools help packers to make decisions impacting their product offerings and contracts. Access to Urner Barry reporters allows them additional clarity on market conditions and factors impacting prices around the globe.

IMPORTERS

Gain global insight to find your next growth opportunity with COMTELL. Our historical database paired with exclusive analytics enables better decision-making to maximize profits, reduce uncertainty and minimize risk. Importers benchmark their purchases against US prices to validate positions, evaluate spreads, and stay on top of key industry news. Alerts and notifications can help to ensure importers don’t miss an opportunity!

EXECUTIVES

Save time by having key reference data in one place. Ensure your decision makers have the trusted information they need in order to make the best business decisions. Keep tabs on key market changes with your portfolio and alerts so that you never miss trends that could impact your business. The COMTELL App also helps subscribers keep in touch with markets on the go.

C-SUITE

Mitigate your company’s risk to market changes and unanticipated supply or demand shocks with up-to-date market information and insight from Urner Barry’s market reporters. Create a portfolio of items that impact your company’s bottom line or tie in years of history into forecasts and pricing models. COMTELL is a small investment compared to the opportunity cost of not having a subscription, which saves users tangible amounts of time and creates a competitive advantage across organizations. Understand the factors that are impacting your business directly, but also, the market outside of your day-to-day perspective.

INVESTORS

Fortune 500 companies and multinational organizations are directly impacted by the commodity prices, statistics, and news available on COMTELL. Investment firms use COMTELL to formulate strategy and gain a more complex understanding of the market, enabling them to take better positions with respect to their investments around these organizations. Firms leverage the unique perspective and “market buzz” generated by Urner Barry’s reporters and the analysis posted on COMTELL.

DISTRIBUTORS

Distributors use a multitude of tools on COMTELL to buy, position, and sell with more confidence. Spot prices and history enable them to negotiate with more transparency, purchase opportunistically, and pinpoint target periods to clear inventory. Statistics allow them to follow production and processing trends to formulate short and long-term strategy. Portfolio tools allow them to follow the items impacting their business across the key major protein commodities, while comparison tools enable planners to shift quickly between promotions and inventory positions.

LENDERS

Financial institutions need accurate and trusted market information to make sound investment and lending decisions. Historical pricing, analytical tools, reporter insight, and statistical data allow them to understand trends in the market and forecast the risk associated with their portfolio.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

Government agencies, from small to large, rely on COMTELL for market intelligence. Buyers use COMTELL’s analytics tool and history to negotiate and plan inventory. The depth of coverage allows them to evaluate a multitude of items and adjust their strategies to stay on budget.

RESEARCHERS AND EDUCATORS

COMTELL’s unique data sets make it an attractive resource for researchers and educators exploring the protein sector. The tools on COMTELL and experience of Urner Barry’s market reporters enables them to understand market fundamentals quickly, in a way that makes sense to even non-market participants. Using COMTELL as a resource helps them to evaluate hypothesis and educate more effectively.

ALLIED SUPPLIERS

The proprietary prices found on COMTELL allow buyers to contract their long-term and short-term needs, analyze existing deals against history, and evaluate day-to-day market trends. COMTELL offers buyers insight they can trust to follow and analyze supply data with value-added statistics and analytics provided only by Urner Barry’s expert market reporters. Buyers can confidently negotiate transactions, formulate forward pricing structures and gain a better perspective of emerging market trends so they can be more confident in their business decisions.

"It's not just about the data, it's knowing there is a person behind it, available to discuss and answer my questions."

Why do so many Fortune 500 Companies rely on COMTELL?