Panther Mountain Companies, LLC is named for a mountain in Western South Carolina.

Mike Spindler started Panther Mountain Companies which specializes in advising the Fast Moving Consumer Goods Industry on building winning products/services, strategies, companies and people.  The company specializes in successfully bringing new technology and services to market.

Spindler, a seasoned executive in the CPG, Online, Retail and Information businesses, works with companies, to design, develop and execute actionable strategies for new or revitalized businesses and products. He brings a well-honed ability to ferret out salient data and emerging market dynamics, as well as, a keen perception of internal organizational and cultural barriers to progress.

The founder has experience in established companies, turn-around, startups, buyouts and rapid growth companies. Expertise includes general management, marketing, sales management, business development, research, product development, operations and finance within companies such as: AC Nielsen, MyWebGrocer, Gladson, and efficient market services, inc.  He works with blue chip companies such as Procter & Gamble, Kroger, Safeway, Kraft, Wakefern, Pepsi, CVS and emerging companies such as DemandTec, Tradavo, Impulse Marketing, MyBrands, Ferveo Technologies and others.

“I have a passion for working on technical, process or organizational solutions to the problems that have longed plagued the CPG marketing and distribution businesses. Panther Mountain is my vehicle for doing the types of things I have worked on with colleagues and clients for many years, but on a more formal basis.

Mike is an accomplished author, speaker and contributor to industry issues such as Out-of-Stocks and Their Solution, The Hierarchy of Merchandising, Merchandising ntributor to Operations Efficiency, Data Cleansing for GDSN and New Product Speed to Market.

In September of 2008 Panther Mountain Companies launched ShelfSnap with some partners from Mike's past at Nielsen and ems. 

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