The Big Four Supermarkets See Green Shoots of Recovery
U.K. supermarkets experienced a tough year in 2019—last year’s Christmas period showed the lowest growth since 2014. But in the last four weeks, it looks like there may just be a light at the end of the tunnel for retailers and manufacturers.
Win the Retail Tech Race by Winning Women’s Trust
If brands want to win the technology race, they need to focus on using technology as an enabler of humanity and use it to build trust and connection in this world. That’s because trust is at the epicenter of the decisions that women—and all consumers—make.
7 Forces Driving the Future of Ireland’s FMCG and Retail Market
This will be a year unlike any other. 2020 will kick off a decade that will witness evolutionary changes in tech-powered consumer engagement, increased wealth fragmentation, leaps in retail personalisation and remarkable shifts in innovation strategies.
The Future Awaits: Tech-Transformed Consumption
In our latest research, we examine the challenges and accelerators affecting how and when consumers around the world will engage with the myriad forms of emerging technologies primed to make their lives easier and more efficient.
Innovating with Digital in Mind
Despite the relative commonness of online shopping today, many brands still have questions about how to best adapt their innovation strategies for the digital age. It should go without saying, but launching a product in a physical environment is not the same as doing so online. Yet as intuitive as...
Why You Must Take the Product Out of the Lab Before Launch
Product innovators and marketers spend an exorbitant amount of time and effort perfecting their products before they bring them to market. So, how do they know when the innovation is ready for launch?
The Smart Shelf: Your Pathway to Winning in Retail
The Smart Shelf whitepaper will allow you to better understand the ingredients of the Smart Shelf and what you need to do to build your first planogram.
Your Competitor Just Innovated: Here’s the Agile Way to a Proper Response
We know a really good idea and a potential threat when we see one, right? We might, but the most common monitoring approach is to keep a close eye on the in-market performance of those innovations. But this wait and see approach relies on in-market performance, which means it has two serious flaws.
Augmented Retail: The New Consumer Reality
Consumers today are increasingly craving immersive, real-life experiences. But they want these experiences without foregoing time or effort. The solution? Augmented and virtual reality technology, coming to a “store” near you.
Brands, It’s Time to Wise Up to Women
Despite the headlines and hashtags, women around the world are fatigued and believe meaningful change is coming too slowly. So how can brands ensure they’re making authentic connections with women?