Raley's Launches Groundbreaking Mobile App Program to Assist Wine Shoppers

West Sacramento, CA (PRWEB) November 17, 2011

Hello Vino, Inc. today announced a partnership with Raley's Family of Fine Stores to provide a free mobile app to assist shoppers with selecting the perfect wine for their needs amongst the hundreds of bottles available at retail.

Hello Vino, a free mobile app available for both iPhone and Android devices, recommends the perfect type of wine for a meal, specific occasion, or by personal taste preference. The app features will be customized to Raley's 124 retail locations throughout northern California and Nevada, which also include Bel Air and Nob Hill Foods stores.

Wine brand recommendations provided by the app will be customized to reflect each individual stores inventory, utilizing the mobile device's location-based services. Additional app features allow shoppers to save and rate wines for future reference and return shopping trips.

Raley's is the first retailer to offer digital coupons through the Hello Vino app, delivering offers to shoppers' mobile devices for easy redemption at checkout. In addition, image recognition technology in the iPhone app will allow shoppers to snap a picture of a wine label to instantly receive tasting notes, food pairings, and ratings from both professional critics and consumers.

"We are very excited to be working with Raley's as the first retail chain to launch this ground-breaking mobile app program for their wine shoppers," remarks Jim McNamee, Co-Founder of Hello Vino. "A feature-rich smartphone app is the perfect vehicle to deliver a personal and well-informed wine shopping experience."

Raley's partnership with the wine industry's leading mobile app provides their shoppers with an educational resource on their smartphones, delivers coupons for redemption in nearby stores, and leverages benefits like helpful message reminders within the app.

"At Raley's, were always looking for innovative ways to provide our customers with an easier and better shopping experience in our stores," said Joe Lima, Raley's Senior Business Manager for Wine, Beer and Spirits. "The Hello Vino app will be an incredibly useful resource for our customers to easily find the right wine based on their particular varietal preferences, price points and food pairings, while also offering instant savings in our stores."

About Raley's

Raley's is a privately owned supermarket chain with headquarters in West Sacramento, CA. The company is comprised of four chains - Raley's, Bel Air Markets, Nob Hill Foods and Food Source - located in Northern California and Nevada. For media requests, please call (916) 373-6043 or (916) 600-1081.

About Hello Vino, Inc.

Hello Vino delivers wine recommendations to mobile phones, assisting consumers with the perfect bottle of wine for a meal, occasion, or according to taste preferences. The service is available on any smartphone through free iPhone and Android apps, as well as mobile web sites for BlackBerry and Windows Phones. More information, including video demonstrations and features, are available at HelloVino.com

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Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) Forum 2010 to Include Groundbreaking Research Presentations

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) September 30, 2010

The Center for Research in Security Prices(CRSP), at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago Booth), is pleased to announce the final program line-up for the upcoming CRSP Forum 2010. David Barclay, Chief Operating Officer of CRSP, says, We are delighted to not only celebrate the 50-year anniversary of CRSP this year, but to also host one of the most anticipated events in financial research. Since our founding in 1960, CRSPs research-quality data has helped drive advancements in the body of knowledge for finance and economics. We are very fortunate to have such an esteemed group of academicians, practitioners and policy makers who are recognized thought leaders participate in our program. The combination of real-time industry analysis and presentations on cutting-edge research makes for a very information-rich event.

Asset class performance will be one of the key topics at CRSP Forum 2010 on Thursday and Friday, November 4th and 5th at the Gleacher Gleacher in Chicago. Program highlights include Thursdays opening speakers from Chicago Booth, John C. Heaton, Joseph L. Gidwitz Professor of Finance, and Lubos Pastor, Charles P. McQuaid Professor of Finance. Professors Heaton and Pastor will present an early look at the research behind CRSPs new index series. In the afternoon session, Kenneth J. Heinz, CFA and President of Hedge Fund Research, Inc., will present the latest data and analysis on hedge fund performance. Sam Stovall, Chief Investment Strategist for S&P Equity Research Group, will then discuss whether diversification failed investors in the latest crash based on research of 40 years of asset price history.

On Friday, November 5, Mark R. Kiesel, Managing Director for PIMCO, will discuss his latest research on credit market opportunities. Suzanne L. Duncan, Financial Markets Industry Leader for the IBM Institute for Business Value, will follow and share the findings of her landmark research which looks at the future of investment management.

In addition to the keynotes, CRSP Forum 2010 will include an interactive panel session on November 4. The panel discussion will address how research is identified for publication and for investment strategy and will be led by moderator Jason Zweig, personal finance and investing columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He will be joined by Gregory J. Gordon, President and CEO Social Science Research Network (SSRN); Daniel Giamouridis, Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting and Finance at the Athens University of Economics and Business; and Rodney N. Sullivan, CFA and Head of Publications and Editor of the Financial Analysts Journal for CFA Institute.

The core of the Forum program includes nearly 60 presentations of scholarly research covering a wide range of financial, economic and corporate governance issues, from a distinguished group of academicians, corporate and government researchers. CRSP Forum 2010 provides an invaluable opportunity for leaders across disciplines to convene and share the latest thinking on practice, theory, and policy in finance and economics.

Full program registration fees are $ 250 for academic and government attendees and $ 350 for commercial attendees. For more information, or to register for the Forum please visit: http://www.crsp.uchicago.edu/forum/index.html, or call the Forum Hotline at 312-263-6400 (ext 3). For press and industry analyst registration inquiries, please contact Diane Treuthart.

About The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)

The Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and has been an integral part of the academic and commercial world of financial and economic research since 1960. CRSPs portfolio of stock, research indexes, mutual fund, treasury, and REIT market databases is relied on by over 400 leading academic institutions in 29 countries. It is also widely used in the commercial and government sectors.

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