spar is a supplier of merchandising and marketing services throughout the us and internationally us services division the company's us services division provides nationwide merchandising and other marketing services primarily on behalf of consumer product manufacturers and retailers at mass merchandisers, electronics store chains, drug store chains and grocery stores. merchandising services primarily consist of scheduled dedicated routed services and special projects provided at the store level for a specific retailer or single or multiple manufacturers. these services may include activities such as ensuring that client products authorized for distribution are in stock and on the shelf, adding new products that are approved for distribution but not presently on the shelf, setting category shelves in accordance with approved store schematics, ensuring that shelf tags are in place, checking for the overall salability of products and setting new and promotional items and placing and/o