If you're a Category Manager are you the next CEO or stuck for life? “Let’s be realistic, if you stay in Category then the best you can hope for is heading up the Category Team. After that if you want to go up, you’ll have to get out.” You might not have been told
About the author: Bill Bean is Vice President of Insights and Research at Shopper Intelligence USA. He is a nationally recognized American senior marketing executive with expertise in marketing analytics, shopper insights and innovative tech solutions in shopper research. Shopper Insights as a discipline has gone through a few definitions,
Dairy is a versatile department. Categories that sit side by side play very different roles for shoppers and for retailers. By comparing categories, we better inform our category management strategies. Using the latest shopper insights from Shopper Intelligence UK's recent survey (June-September 2020) here we shall focus on two categories within Dairy: Yoghurts vs.
Van Halen. Jump. Great Song. One of the greatest. But what does it teach us about business? More than you’d think! Let me explain. Bear with me (by the way it helps to listen along for full value for money). At the get go, it’s like a start-up company. It has to punch through
Home Baking - a new trend with need for innovation After the sudden rise of cooking at home resulting from the initial lockdown measures, consumers are returning to old habits and we see this trend returning to pre-lockdown levels. However, the opportunity still exists for brands and retailers to retain trialists of the home
If you read the marketing tomes coming from the likes of Nielsen, IRI, Kantar, 84.51, Dunnhumby etc, you would imagine that historic sales patterns can answer pretty much any category or retail strategy requirement. There are many providers of sales analytics. An entire Industry. An Industry with a common dominant assumption, an assumption that
Benchmarking is much more than just comparing your own performance to your competitors. In market research it is used in a variety of creative ways, in different study types. We all know the classical situation. When you look at your Net Promoter Score of let’s say 58% – and you ask: should I be
I hear a lot of chat about how the current virus situation will change everything. Surely a worldwide life-changing phenomenon like this will see the world fundamentally altered, and retail will be at the leading edge of that? I doubt it. There is a real danger of disappearing down over-reaction rabbit holes. To balance the
There is endless discussion about the growth of online grocery shopping. The virus pandemic is going to give it a kick start as well, even after the short term motivations end. But simply persuading shoppers to do something unfamiliar that makes their life “easier” isn’t really the main challenge. The bigger problem to solve is
I watched a fascinating documentary the other day. It was all about why certain paintings were judged as being “masterpieces” while others painted at the same time over a very similar standard (by any objective measure) remained relatively unknown. Painting A became worth $50m, Painting B $200k at best. The conclusions of the 1-hour program
