Online Community: A Hub for Innovation and Connection with Convenience Store Shoppers

Online Community: A Hub for Innovation and Connection with Convenience Store Shoppers

overview To remain ahead of the innovation game, consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies must remain well-informed about the changing interactions between shoppers and various retail channels. Our client was focused on convenience stores and came to us for a research solution to help them build strong relationships with convenience store operators/owners. The goal was to…

Identifying Beverage Shoppers’ Pain Points and Delighters

Identifying Beverage Shoppers’ Pain Points and Delighters

overview To successfully meet business objectives, it’s imperative that brands have a thorough understanding of their customers, including differences among segments. Brands must understand what consumers want, how they use products, and how they shop. Additionally, they must be able to anticipate pain points that potentially drive shoppers away throughout the shopping journey and develop…

Finding the Perfect Brand Story with Qualitative Concept Testing

Finding the Perfect Brand Story with Qualitative Concept Testing

overview An established food manufacturer was looking to contemporize its strategic brand story to reach a new generation of shoppers, while also appealing to their current core consumers. C+R developed a two-phase qualitative research program to identify which of two concepts under consideration would most help the client modernize their brand story while also resonating…

Using LiveHive to Develop and Optimize Positioning

Using LiveHive to Develop and Optimize Positioning

overview What happens when a brand is innovating products that are so forward-thinking, they can’t even be produced with technology currently available? This was the challenge our client, a large beverage manufacturer, approached C+R for help with solving. They were developing an innovative and forward-thinking beverage product and needed to understand if the idea resonated…

Getting Quick Insights on Consumers’ Perceptions of Nutrients

Getting Quick Insights on Consumers’ Perceptions of Nutrients

overview Our client, a large food producer, has historically focused on acquiring insights about specific categories that they operate in, with lower priority on understanding broad, over-arching issues that cut across many different categories such as health and wellness. With this in mind, our client approached us to “test the waters” using C+R’s Sentiment Surveys….

Can a Major Food Brand Make In-Roads Among Multicultural Consumers?

Can a Major Food Brand Make In-Roads Among Multicultural Consumers?

overview In recent years, multicultural consumers have helped brands increase their sales. Many of these gains have come about due to companies’ efforts at outreach and a clear demonstration of how their products can enrich multicultural consumers’ lives. However, we know that not all multicultural consumers are alike. There are major differences between Asian, Hispanic,…

Mapping the Shopper Journey to Optimize Merchandising Strategies

Mapping the Shopper Journey to Optimize Merchandising Strategies

overview Looking to innovate, a major food manufacturer needed to identify unmet needs and associated opportunities in the frozen snacks and appetizers category. They looked to C+R for help. OUR APPROACH A Mixed Methods Approach C+R used a combination of online qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the client’s research questions and pinpoint key findings….