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  • The four crucial missing questions (and answers) in Cat Man about Category Role
    Category Role
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    The four crucial missing questions (and answers) in Cat Man about Category Role

  • Is the most important part of the category strategy team away day the lunch?
    Category Management
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    Objective fact

    Is the most important part of the category strategy team away day the lunch?

  • Growth: The two drivers of traditional Grocery categories
    Category Management
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    Growth: The two drivers of traditional Grocery categories

  • The less discussed kind of “out of stock”
    Category Management
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    The less discussed kind of “out of stock”

  • Shopper Marketing – think of it as a diversion
    Category Management
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    Shopper Marketing – think of it as a diversion

  • 3 reasons why asking for the Key Takeouts may be wrong
    Category Management
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    3 reasons why asking for the Key Takeouts may be wrong

  • Category Management: Become a trusted advisor – 5 tips to succeed
    Category Management

    Category Management: Become a trusted advisor – 5 tips to succeed

  • Organic Fruits & Veggies: how to leverage a premium opportunity
    Category Management
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    Shopper behaviour

    Organic Fruits & Veggies: how to leverage a premium opportunity

  • Burgers and Retailer sell-in decks, what do they have in common?
    Category Management

    Burgers and Retailer sell-in decks, what do they have in common?

  • Category Managers. The kind of people the world needs more of.
    Category Management

    Category Managers. The kind of people the world needs more of.

  • Stop looking for the Killer Insight
    Category Management

    Stop looking for the Killer Insight

  • From Lock-in to Lockdown: Beer Shopping Behaviour during Covid
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    Shopper behaviour

    From Lock-in to Lockdown: Beer Shopping Behaviour during Covid

  • We all cook World Foods on Instagram. But what happens in-store?
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    Shopper behaviour

    We all cook World Foods on Instagram. But what happens in-store?

  • Cut the cr*p and be a better storyteller
    Category Management

    Cut the cr*p and be a better storyteller

  • Do you have real life talks with buyers and brand managers?
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    Do you have real life talks with buyers and brand managers?

  • There are 3 types of category manager. Only one is of real use.
    Category Management

    There are 3 types of category manager. Only one is of real use.

  • What makes Oral Care and Personal Care unique for retailers?
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    What makes Oral Care and Personal Care unique for retailers?

  • As a Category Manager are you the next CEO or stuck for life?
    Category Management

    As a Category Manager are you the next CEO or stuck for life?

  • 5 Shopper Insight Fundamentals that still apply today
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    Shopper behaviour

    5 Shopper Insight Fundamentals that still apply today

  • How to win UK shoppers in different dairy categories
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    Shopper behaviour

    How to win UK shoppers in different dairy categories

  • What Van Halen’s “Jump” teaches us about business
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    What Van Halen’s “Jump” teaches us about business

  • Home Baking shopping trend: capture it by Premium and Innovation
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    Shopper behaviour

    Home Baking shopping trend: capture it by Premium and Innovation

  • Why isn’t sales history alone sufficient to understand shoppers?
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    Why isn’t sales history alone sufficient to understand shoppers?

  • 4 types of benchmarking in market research – and when to use them
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    4 types of benchmarking in market research – and when to use them

  • Post-Covid, supermarket shopping will never be the same again
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    Post-Covid, supermarket shopping will never be the same again

  • The three major profitability challenges of online grocery shopping
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    The three major profitability challenges of online grocery shopping

  • Why is being a category manager like being the painter of an Old Master?
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    Why is being a category manager like being the painter of an Old Master?

  • When is just “good”, good enough in market research?
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    When is just “good”, good enough in market research?

  • What’s the shopping mission type we rarely focus on?
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    What’s the shopping mission type we rarely focus on?

  • I think I found the perfect metaphor for starting a business.
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    I think I found the perfect metaphor for starting a business.

  • The one thing AI will never be able to help us with
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    The one thing AI will never be able to help us with

  • Is this the golden rule of shopper insights?
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    Is this the golden rule of shopper insights?

  • We’re all about getting “so what” from data but we can’t get AI to do much to help us!
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    We’re all about getting “so what” from data but we can’t get AI to do much to help us!

  • The power of “autopilot” – how do shoppers really cope with grocery shopping?
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    The power of “autopilot” – how do shoppers really cope with grocery shopping?

  • If we marketers helped get the world into this mess, can we help fix it?
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    If we marketers helped get the world into this mess, can we help fix it?

  • Category Role. Time to update the old classics?
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    Category Role. Time to update the old classics?

  • 80/20: Today’s Insights Reality
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    80/20: Today’s Insights Reality

  • Data Meetings. They usually don’t work well – but what’s the alternative?
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    Data Meetings. They usually don’t work well – but what’s the alternative?

  • “Shopper” is for Cat Man people, not marketers, right?
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    “Shopper” is for Cat Man people, not marketers, right?

  • Think business like a sports coach
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    Think business like a sports coach

  • The Five Guys story – simple learnings for shopper marketers
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    The Five Guys story – simple learnings for shopper marketers

  • What did 300+ USA retail buyers say made for a best practice supplier?
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    What did 300+ USA retail buyers say made for a best practice supplier?

  • Why is objective, quantitative shopper data in proposals and plans so important?
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    Why is objective, quantitative shopper data in proposals and plans so important?

  • 10 things that annoy me in data discussions
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    10 things that annoy me in data discussions

  • Thinking Outside In – the only way to talk to retailers
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    Thinking Outside In – the only way to talk to retailers

  • Three take outs from the “Shopper Brain” Conference, Amsterdam
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    Three take outs from the “Shopper Brain” Conference, Amsterdam

  • Shopper Insights shouldn’t be controlled only by the big guys
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    Shopper Insights shouldn’t be controlled only by the big guys

  • Cheaper and better – the new paradigm of innovation today
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    Cheaper and better – the new paradigm of innovation today

  • Jason Smith interviewed by TMRE TV
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    Jason Smith interviewed by TMRE TV

  • What exactly is Shopper Research for?
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    What exactly is Shopper Research for?

  • The death of the high street. It’s the age-old matter of “traffic” versus “spend”
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    The death of the high street. It’s the age-old matter of “traffic” versus “spend”

  • Balance between simplicity and depth in PowerPoint slides
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    Balance between simplicity and depth in PowerPoint slides

  • What is AI and what does it mean for market research?
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    What is AI and what does it mean for market research?

  • Do we really talk the same language as our customers?
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    Do we really talk the same language as our customers?

  • Infographic: Is online driving even greater shopper promotional buying?
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    Infographic: Is online driving even greater shopper promotional buying?

  • Infographic: How do shoppers behave at Discounters (Aldi)?
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    Infographic: How do shoppers behave at Discounters (Aldi)?

  • BCGs 6th Annual Study of growth leaders in CPG reinforces why we created Shopper Intelligence.
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    BCGs 6th Annual Study of growth leaders in CPG reinforces why we created Shopper Intelligence.

  • Global brands. Local execution. How do smaller companies win?
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    Global brands. Local execution. How do smaller companies win?

  • Has online grocery just scratched the surface of “thinking shopper”?
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    Has online grocery just scratched the surface of “thinking shopper”?

  • “We can’t afford to do category management anymore!”
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    “We can’t afford to do category management anymore!”

  • The nearest thing to a dead cert – how to win the category management battle in 2018
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    The nearest thing to a dead cert – how to win the category management battle in 2018

  • Understanding the true costs and return of shopper research
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    Understanding the true costs and return of shopper research

  • As an industry how do we assess the true value of gondola ends?
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    As an industry how do we assess the true value of gondola ends?

  • The hidden costs and waste of shopper research
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    The hidden costs and waste of shopper research

  • What does “improving shopper satisfaction” actually mean for us?
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    What does “improving shopper satisfaction” actually mean for us?

  • 5 ways your category can lose sales in store
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    5 ways your category can lose sales in store

  • What can we learn about in-store marketing from dating?
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    What can we learn about in-store marketing from dating?

  • Category Managers – would you pay the passenger in front to give you more space?
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    Category Managers – would you pay the passenger in front to give you more space?

  • Why price promotions are the most dangerous of all marketing addictions
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    Why price promotions are the most dangerous of all marketing addictions

  • What’s the shopping mission type we rarely focus on?
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    What’s the shopping mission type we rarely focus on?

  • “System 1 and 2” in shopper research. Let’s not get carried away!
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    “System 1 and 2” in shopper research. Let’s not get carried away!

  • How best to understand online grocery shopping
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    How best to understand online grocery shopping

  • “How Brands Grow”, by Byron Sharp. Some top line implications for Shopper Research.
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    “How Brands Grow”, by Byron Sharp. Some top line implications for Shopper Research.

  • The what and the why. The yin and yang of shopper research.
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    The what and the why. The yin and yang of shopper research.

  • Shopper researchers need more empathy
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    Shopper researchers need more empathy

  • The forces that gave rise to the supermarket will be the same ones that destroy it
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    The forces that gave rise to the supermarket will be the same ones that destroy it

  • “Discounter” – beware the risks of misleading channel names
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    “Discounter” – beware the risks of misleading channel names

  • How do you reduce “wastage” in shopper research?
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    How do you reduce “wastage” in shopper research?

  • What does your retailer want from your shopper research?
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    What does your retailer want from your shopper research?

  • 10 ways to save money on shopper research
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    Shopper behaviour

    10 ways to save money on shopper research

  • So, how exactly do you create a Shopper Insight?
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    So, how exactly do you create a Shopper Insight?

  • New logo – not just decorative; it marks a new philosophy
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    New logo – not just decorative; it marks a new philosophy

  • What exactly is “premium”?
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    What exactly is “premium”?

  • Is Shopper Marketing a Waste of Time?
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    Is Shopper Marketing a Waste of Time?

  • Shopper Research Briefs: Good, Bad and Ugly
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    Shopper Research Briefs: Good, Bad and Ugly

  • 5 things that should worry any category manager about the future of margins as online shopping continues to grow
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    5 things that should worry any category manager about the future of margins as online shopping continues to grow

  • Why we should be proud of small changes in category management
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    Why we should be proud of small changes in category management

  • High-value shoppers
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    High-value shoppers

  • Creating the Perfect Research Charts/Slides
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    Creating the Perfect Research Charts/Slides

  • CMA Partnering Group research identifies gap for improved shopper insights on the “path to loyalty”
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    CMA Partnering Group research identifies gap for improved shopper insights on the “path to loyalty”

  • The future of on line grocery shopping: implications of our new research
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    The future of on line grocery shopping: implications of our new research

  • Ahold CEO endorses our philosophy?
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    Ahold CEO endorses our philosophy?

  • Aldi explore premiumisation in Australia – new pics
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    Aldi explore premiumisation in Australia – new pics

  • Driving insights from Data
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    Driving insights from Data

  • “Bad Range; Good Range” – Optimizing Assortment – a far from black and white matter?
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    “Bad Range; Good Range” – Optimizing Assortment – a far from black and white matter?

  • An insight about insights from Darwin?
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    An insight about insights from Darwin?

  • Are half your Shopper Research recommendations misleading? ….the search for Significance
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    Are half your Shopper Research recommendations misleading? ….the search for Significance

  • Top 10 secrets for more effective Shopper Research
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    Top 10 secrets for more effective Shopper Research

  • A new model for Category “Role” thinking
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    A new model for Category “Role” thinking

  • Research and the Reptilian Brain
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    Research and the Reptilian Brain

  • So what happens when your Brand is out of stock?
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    So what happens when your Brand is out of stock?

  • The tough part of shopper marketing thinking?
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    The tough part of shopper marketing thinking?