{"id":12688,"date":"2019-09-04T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T15:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=12688"},"modified":"2019-09-04T11:30:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T15:30:45","slug":"finding-top-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/09\/finding-top-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Top Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CSG CONNECTed is an educational resource designed to empower and guide our customers to get the most out of their online leads portals whether you are in the office, attending trade shows, networking events, conferences, or on the go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/\/ProductAccess.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Log into your account <\/strong><\/a>on your desktop, smart phone or tablet to access top company rankings by sales, number of locations, and more.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Four Ways to Find the Top Companies<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"\/email\/csg_connect_topcompanies2019.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><strong>1. Search by Top Sales<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Select the \u201cSales\u201d search filter and type in the number of \u201cTop Companies\u201d you wish to rank. After you have made your selection, run your search \u201cper company\u201d and view results. You can use the \u201cSort Results\u201d feature to order the list by Total Sales descending (highest first). The \u201cSort Results\u201d method can be used when running all companies together and for Total Units as well.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>2. Fastest Growing Companies<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Select \u201cFastest Growing\u201d from the filter list. This feature gives you the option to choose a percentage range for sales or total unit growth (i.e. a range of 100% to 9999% would capture companies that have more than doubled their previous year\u2019s numbers).<\/p>\n<h4><strong>3. Live Dashboard<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>A quick way to access top companies is with the \u201cCSG Data Dashboard.\u201d This dashboard gives you updated information on the top 25 companies by sales &amp; locations as-well-as the top 5 fastest growing. You can also download complete company profiles using the PDF icon.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>4. Exported Results<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>After you have made all your search selections and run your query, click on the gray \u201cExport\u201d button which is located below the word \u201cDownload\u201d. Once you have opened the spreadsheet in a program like Excel, you can use the use the Sort functionality to rank the worksheet by Total Units, Total\/Industry\/Foodservice Sales, Growth Percentages, or Projected Openings\/Remodelings.*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Some features may only be available in select databases. Exporting is only accessible to PRO, PLUS, and Premier subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/..\/offthechain\/category\/csg-connected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" name=\"product_log_in\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/..\/offthechain\/category\/csg-connected\/\" data-cke-saved-name=\"CSGCONNECTed_archive\"><strong>Check out the other tutorials in our CSG CONNECTed archive<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSG CONNECTed is an educational resource designed to empower and guide our customers to get the most out of their online leads portals whether you are in the office, attending trade shows, networking events, conferences, or on the go. Log into your account on your desktop, smart phone or tablet to access top company rankings&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/09\/finding-top-companies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finding Top Companies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csg-connected","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}