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About the Company

Accelerated Chart Movement formed in 1986 to provide retail telemarketing services to sales, promotion and marketing departments of major recording companies. The initial focus of the organization's service was to provide weekly reports detailing stock information relating to single sales.

The company's services have included instituting national retail promotional campaigns canvassing Top 40, Jazz, Urban, Album Rock and Music Video formats. The PowerPak division provides a complete merchandising fulfillment center offering full-scale mail facilities for "point-of-purchase" programs.  ACM's projects have included such musical artists as Mariah Carey, Michael Bolton, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Tears for Fears, U2, as well as such noted jazz acts as Branford Marsalis, The Rippington's, Diane Schuur and George Benson.

In 1996, ACM launched a nationwide network of 10,000 field reps to promote, merchandise and perform inventory audits for entertainment companies.  We were nominated "Best Small Related Products & Services" in 2000 and 2001 by NARM.

President, Rip Pelley

A graduate of the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Rip Pelley's career in the marketing of entertainment products spans three decades. During a nine year tenure with Elektra/Asylum Records, he served as Director of Artist Development as well as, Director, Promotion Field Operations. His responsibilities included tour marketing and radio promotion campaigns for such recording artists as The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Queen, The Cars, Traffic, Carly Simon, Jackson Browne and Joni Mitchell.

Throughout the early eighties, he formed a marketing company that provided entertainment and media sponsorship programs for Fortune 500 companies. He designed programs for clients Anheuser-Busch and Toto, Bausch & Lomb and Don Henley, Kodak, and Nabisco Brands with Rod Stewart. Additionally, he mounted broadcast campaigns for such films as Purple Rain, Under the Cherry Moon, Every Which Way But Loose, Urban Cowboy, FM and Cobra.  In 1986, Rip co-founded Accelerated Chart Movement.  

He is currently a member of the National Association of Record Merchandisers (NARM), the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), as well as an ongoing supporter of the T. J. Martell Foundation, MusiCares and City of Hope.

 

The Inventory/Merchandising Program

Accelerated Chart Movement core service provides field merchandising "reps" that offer a depth of marketing extraordinary to the entertainment industry. ACM offers the ability to canvass over 230 markets with a field staff of over 10,000 representatives!

These seasoned veterans have performed statistical data research, quality control analysis and employee evaluation programs for dozens of major corporations and national retail establishments throughout the United States.

ACM's on-site representatives can be available to you on an "as needed basis" for:

  • INVENTORY CHECKS
  • COMPLIANCE INSPECTIONS
  • WALL AND WINDOW DISPLAYS
  • COUNTER AND END-CAP DISPLAYS
  • VENUE MERCHANDISING AND SALES
  • FLYER & COUPON DISTRIBUTION
  • CRISIS MANAGEMENT
  • CONSUMER INTERCEPTS

ACM also provides a complete fulfillment center to drop-ship materials to each representative or retail account.  Our basic program includes a processed computer analysis compiling the information you require from each account in a concise single report. 

Locations

ACM's mobile staff can service all types of music outlets to gain the widest possible exposure to your products and merchandising materials, as well as providing inventory analysis. Of course, traditional music stores and mass merchandisers are our specialization, but as non-traditional outlets become increasingly significant, our representatives are ready to go!

Consider the following opportunities:

MALL STORES

FREE STANDING OUTLETS

MASS MERCHANDISERS

DEPARTMENT STORES

MOVIE THEATERS

COFFEE CAFES

COLLEGE CAMPUS & BOOKSTORES

CONCERT VENUES

NON-TRADITIONAL RETAIL OUTLETS

 

Selected Recent Clients

CURB RECORDS

EMI MUSIC DISTRIBUTION

HOLLYWOOD RECORDS

ISLAND RECORDS

RED DISTRIBUTION

RCA RECORDS

RCA LABEL GROUP (NASHVILLE)

UNIVERSAL MUSIC DISTRIBUTION

UNIVERSAL MUSIC ENTERPRISES

WARNER/ELEKTRA/ATLANTIC CORP.

WARNER STRATEGIC MARKETING




 

 


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