Insights
03 Dec, 2024
How Snacking is Embracing the Product Age
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Create winning products that people buy again and again and again.
‘Good enough’ just isn't good enough.
We're faced with thousands of product choices every single day. We're also becoming more discerning about what products we buy in the first place, and what brands we opt into. In a highly competitive retail landscape, being ‘good enough’ just doesn’t cut it. If you want to properly break through, product experience is your secret weapon - but too often the last 5% that transforms a consumption experience from good to great is missed.
That’s why our product testing and development approaches put both your target consumer and your intended brand promise at their heart. By knowing how and why a proposition resonates with consumers, we can ensure the product execution is perfect.
Impact
We make sure your product experience is memorable, meaningfully distinctive and top of mind the next time they’re thinking of buying.
Alignment
We make sure the product experience fits perfectly against the expectations set by the brand promise. If you’ve succeeded in compelling someone to purchase, don’t let them down with disappointing product execution.
Category Role
We make sure you offer an experience that’s superior to others. If you don’t, the overall proposition will have to work harder to encourage repeat purchase.
Finding a solution that fits.
Proposition alignment? Competitor benchmarking? Product reformulation? Whatever question you need answering, we've the solution to help - including online qualitative and enhanced in-home sensory and consumer testing approaches.
Product Accelerator
Rapid quantitative testing with targeted interviews and mini-groups for depth and clarity around optimization.
Sensory Drivers
Expert and machine learning methods help uncover the influence of sensory characteristics on consumers - both the impact on liking but also the emotional and functional delivery.
Preference Mapping
Consumer segmentation fused with sensory data, for clarity on how to engineer your sensory characteristics to drive higher liking and brand fit.
Conceptual Mapping
Conceptual profiling linked to expert sensory data, to identify how to drive emotional and functional connection through the sensory delivery of a product.
Concept Product Testing
Final validation checks for full proposition alignment and in-market potential, with robust volume forecasts and launch strategy optimization.
Sensory Qual
Create new innovation or understand the emotional, functional or sensorial journey of a product – ensuring product alignment is built-in from the start.
In 2020 we consulted on more global product tests than we did in 2019, despite COVID! We had over 100 clients trusting us to ensure they got the product testing insight they needed, during the toughest of conditions.
MELLISSA MORRIS, RESEARCH MANAGER
Our product people.
You’ll work with Simon Harris, our Director of Product Excellence, as well as our sensory experts, data scientists and dedicated account teams who have many years’ experience across categories and markets.
LUCOZADE
INNOCENT
Weetabix
PRINGLES
Grolsch
Energizing NPD for Lucozade
Suntory Beverage wanted to develop a new product within the natural energy space.
Nut another plant-based milk brand
Innocent wanted to play in the plant milk arena, but in an already crowded category, it had to play a little differently.
Uncovering protein product potential
Weetabix wanted to launch a new high protein product to become the first mainstream UK breakfast cereal delivering against associated functional benefits.
Products that pop, innovation that never stops
Pringles identified an opportunity for a new sub-range of Asian inspired, flavored rice-based snacks that delivered a unique product experience.
Asahi International refresh an old favorite
Asahi partnered with MMR to re-engineer the liquid of a new 4% ABV beer offering to complement their strong existing portfolio, maximize consumer appeal and estimate source of volume.
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