The group's principal activity is to provide merchandising and marketing services throughout the United States and Canada. It operates in two divisions, the merchandising services division and the international division. The merchandising services division provides merchandising services, product demonstrations, product sampling, database marketing, teleservices and marketing research to manufacturers and retailers with product distribution primarily in mass merchandisers, drug chains and grocery stores in the United States. The international division provides merchandising services in Japan, Canada and turkey.