Melville, N.Y., April 30, 2026–During their 100 year anniversary celebration, Associated Wholesale Grocers presented their inaugural Vendor Partner of the Year award to BRdata at the 2026 AWG Innovation Showcase. Following this announcement, The Shelby Report published a featured spotlight on BRdata’s acceptance of the First Vendor Partner Of Year For Services & Solutions award and covered the history of BRdata’s 17-year long partnership with AWG. BRdata was awarded this accolade in recognition of their exceptional performance in price and cost competitveness, quality of goods and service, innovation and continuous improvement, and partnership and relationship management. John Abbene, BRdata President, received this inaugural award on behalf of BRdata and dedicated it to “everyone on the BRdata team who worked on and supported this project.”
About BRdata
BRdata is a company that grocery retailers and wholesalers know and trust and is a leading provider of enterprise software solutions for grocers for over 45 years.
Have a real-time conversion with your data with the BRdata Ada AI assistant. Use AI to gain fast, efficient insights into sales, profits, inventory, purchases, shrink, baskets, nationwide trends, consumer behavior, and emerging opportunities. Decision-makers can ask a limitless number of questions and receive answers in seconds. Explore practical applications in use by thousands of grocers, including automating invoice reconciliation, optimizing ordering, and building intelligent dashboards that enable smarter, data-driven decisions.
Applications include master data management, price optimization, perpetual inventory, single-pass and computer-generated ordering, loyalty rewards, receiving, shrink capture, ad planning and deal tracking, vendor portal, merchandising, loss-prevention, seamless fresh item scale management, production planning, markdowns, FSMA 204, and WMS. BRdata supports over 10,000 stores and over 1.5 million consumers, across 2,500+ customers.
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