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About Us

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Consulting firm serving consumer package goods, business to business and venture capital clients in:
- Business Development and Planning
- Sales and Market Forecasting
- Strategic Market Research
Robert Altabet – Sole Proprietor
- Over 20 years senior level business experience including Vice-president, Business Management at Duracell Batteries
  - Market Research
  - Sales and Market Forecasting
  - Strategic Market & Business Development
  - Team Building and Training
- Duracell, RJ Reynolds Foods, FMC Chemicals
- Retired from Duracell in 2002 to form an independent consulting company
Resource relationships with other specialists in finance, manufacturing, R&D and IT for coordination of larger projects
Client base includes:
- Altec Lansing - Sound Systems
  - Altec Lansing is a leading manufacturer and marketer of high quality computer and home entertainment sound systems, and a line of headsets, headphones, and microphones for personal digital media.
- AmPad - American Pad & Paper
  - Ampad manufactures a complete line of writing pads, specialty papers, filing products and envelopes.
- CookPak Self-Heating Technology
  - Air activated, self-heating food packaging technology. Developed for the military flameless ration entree (FRE) program. Call to discuss commercial consumer applications.
- Hines Horticulture
  - Hines Horticultural is a supplier of live plants at your local garden center
- Geneva Watch Group
  - Geneva Watch Group is the leading designer, manufacturer and retailer of high-quality brand watches, such as Kenneth Cole, BCBG, Tommy Bahama, Freestyle, and other brands.
- IronPlanet
  - IronPlanet is the premier online auctioneer of used heavy equipment. Their guaranteed inspection reports for every piece of equipment takes the guess work out of buying used equipment and eliminates the need to travel.
- Kodak Polychrome Graphics (KPG) - Graphics Communications
  - Kodak Polychrome Graphics (KPG) is a part of Eastman Kodak's Graphic Communications Group. KPG provides one of the broadest portfolios of digital, conventional and business solutions available in the graphic arts industry today.
- Portable Power Conference
  - The PORTABLE POWER Conference, owned and managed by TIAXX LLC, is the leading international event dedicated to the critical technology and market issues of power management and power sources for wireless communications, mobile computing, and digital A/V devices.
- RBC Technologies - Innovative Battery Solutions
  - RBC Technologies (RBC) is an independent technology development company delivering innovative solutions to a variety of applications in portable energy systems.
- Sara Lee Household & Body Care
  - Sara Lee Corporation markets branded household and body care products in nearly 200 countries, focusing primarily on four categories: body care, air care, shoe care and insecticides. Sara Lee is the number-one company in the European Bath and Shower market with Badedas, Duschdas, Monsavon, Radox and Sanex; a leading international producer of air fresheners with Ambi Pur, the world’s number-one shoe care marketer with Kiwi, and a leading marketer of branded insecticides in Europe and Asia with Catch, Goodknight, Ridsect and Vapona.
- UJA M.A.P. Program
  - Professional services by volunteers through UJA-Federation's Management Assistance Program (MAP). Areas include: advertising, architecture, computers, engineering, facilities management, finance, graphic arts, human resources, marketing, new media, public relations, strategic planning, and more.
- UltraCell Corporation - High Power Micro Fuel Cells
  - UltraCell’s fuel cell technology is a high power density fuel cell system for portable electronics applications. The UltraCell system differs from most other micro fuel cells systems with its use of a revolutionary micro reformer, which generates hydrogen from highly concentrated methanol. This reformed methanol system yields twice the power density of competitive direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) systems.