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We provide expert services in four key areas.


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Strategy

Uncover growth opportunities with insights, tools, and assessments. Prioritize customers and invest for success.

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Planning

Gain insights, forecasts, and trends to inform strategy and develop skills for winning partnerships.

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Execution

Engage with our experts for success through innovation audits, workshops, and retail immersion sessions. 

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Skill builders

Immerse your teams and refresh their skills – from retailer economics to story-telling training.


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Applied Financials & Growth Forecasting 

  • Strategy: Mapping new growth (markets, channels) and quantifying whitespace expansion.
  • Planning: Tailored growth projections using macroeconomic data and insights from channels, shoppers, and categories.
  • Execution: Third-party budgeting guidance to achieve strategic growth goals and plan objectives.
  • Skill builders: ‘Retailer Economics’: 101 & 201 level modular tutorials.

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Top-to-Top Prep & Joint Business Planning (JBP) Jumpstart 

  • Strategy: Landscape assessment, understanding impacts from channel blurring, tracking key macro drivers that will impact long- and short-term plans (and KPIs).
  • Planning: Elevating JBP (joint business planning) for key retailers - Walmart, Target, Kroger, Carrefour, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Costco Global, more.
  • Execution: Adapting plans to needs of new distribution models - e.g., Q-commerce, online to offline (O2O), buy online, pickup in store (BOPIS).
  • Skill builders: ‘Mastering Omnichannel Retail’ tutorials – e.g., Walking the Store, Optimizing the Digital Shelf. Elevating supplier/ retailer partnerships.

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Applied shopper insights and category management support

  • Strategy: Understanding core consumer/shopper change drivers impacting product portfolios; applying shopper cohort data to improve retailer marketing.
  • Planning: Channel planning support, esp. Value Discounters, Dollar Stores, Convenience, eCommerce. Aligning store execution with the online experience. Leveraging apps to drive shopper and employee engagement.
  • Execution: Review trade spend alignment with retailer-partnership strategy. Improve seasonal, holiday programming. Flexing the plan due to macroeconomic shifts, emerging shopper expectations.
  • Skill builders: ‘Retail immersion for new hires’ or ‘Retail immersion for brand marketers’ – addressing digital shelf changes; technology changes in store and online, mastering CRM/loyalty marketing, more.
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Restaurant and Foodservice: Innovation, partnerships and performance

  • Strategy: Tracking the restaurant industry post-pandemic. Finding growth across six business model reinventions. Increasing brand affinity across formats. Tracking innovation – across product, service, and format evolution.
  • Planning: Assessing the impact of emerging food and beverage trends – growth mapping. Assessing key opportunities for restaurant guests and brand development (strat-plan inputs).
  • Execution: Market reviews, success factors, scorecards for joint plans/measurement.
  • Skill builders: ‘Food Service’ modular tutorials.

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Big data and technology deployment: What to know and how to grow

  • Strategy: Tracking applied-technology advancements – global supply chain, blockchain payments, data-security innovation, ‘predictive models for uncertain times'. 
  • Planning: Understanding loyalty program/CRM system evolution. Optimizing Retail media network (RMN) spend. Maximizing profitability and investments – e.g., digital watermarking, packaging innovation.
  • Execution: Applying best practices to execution tracking (balanced scorecards, multi-dimensional KPIs for in-stock tracking, logistics support).
  • Skill builders: Modular tutorials or cross-functional team training sessions–leveraging Kantar best practices, technology specialists.
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Other hot topics we can bring to life

Data Science, AI and Generative AI, Automation

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Retailer strategy and performance

  • 2024 key customer planning priorities
  • The future of the digital shelf
  • The US omnishopper: Now and next

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With 250+ years of collective retail experience, our experts use reliable data and analysis to
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