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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.
South Africa is the second-most price sensitive country in the world
South Africa is home to a nation of promotion obsessed shoppers. The increasing price consciousness of consumers has led to a deal seeking behaviour. However, our analysis shows that 67% of promotions don’t break-even. See how you can build your pricing strategy to get the best out of promotions...
Strength in stability: Africa prospects indicator, edition 8
The eighth Nielsen Africa Prospects Report highlights shifting country priorities and sources of potential, with multi-dimensional, comparative indicators covering business, consumer, retail and macro-economic dynamics.
Nielsen leaders forecast major shifts in the Nigerian consumer and retail landscape at industry event
The Nigerian consumer landscape is set for a multitude of shifts. By 2025, 55% of Nigerians will live in cities or towns, and the country will experience a 50% urban growth – the fastest urban growth, globally. In this challenging environment, finding opportunities with the right insights becomes...
Sampling is the Key to Representative Person-Level Measurement
It’s not practical, feasible or necessarily a good idea to try measuring consumer behaviors by engaging with as many people as possible. That’s where sampling comes in.
Battle of the Brands: Consumer Disloyalty is Sweeping the Globe
Only 8% of global consumers say they are committed to the brands they purchase. That’s an alarming stat, and it highlights the challenge brands face as they seek to engage with consumers and retain them.
Quarter By Numbers: Q1 2019
Our first-quarter 2019 report covers 66 countries across five regions. This quarterly series provides a global snapshot of what’s going on in our markets today.
Brands increase trust—and prices—through sustainability
Products that are environmentally friendly and use recycled packaging resonate most strongly with consumers. This is good news for all marketers seeking to connect with sustainability minded consumers.
From Great Panels Come Great Insights
At Nielsen, we believe that our panels make our company stand out. We devote a great deal of time and resources to ensuring that our panels produce high-quality data. By combining big data with smaller data sets from carefully chosen and measured households, we believe that we provide a higher...
Consumer Disloyalty is the New Normal
A whopping 46% of consumers tell us they are more likely to try new brands than they were five years ago; a clear signal to a trend we should expect to intensify. Yet we see few signs that adjustments have been made to marketing initiatives or innovation pipelines to match these numbers.
Women Wield The Bulk Of South African Spending Power
The purchasing power of South Africa’s 18-million female consumers is undeniable given that 71% of them are responsible for grocery shopping, while 60% are the primary purchaser within South African households making them a force to be reckoned with, in the local retail sector.
Combating the Long Tail with Data Science
You don't have to look far to see rapidly growing or already mature 'disruptors' in retail and manufacturing, but the long tail of market disruption goes way beyond that in today's age of consumer disloyalty.
Women’s Football 2019
Fan interest and commercial investments in women’s football, or soccer, are growing leading into the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. According to Nielsen Sports, 40% of the people in countries with a team competing in this year’s tournament are interested in women’s football.