Research fuels online gifting growth for a global FMCG: An e-commerce case study
Escalent’s approach delivered with a clear story, data-driven insights, and identifiable opportunities to action.
Escalent’s approach delivered with a clear story, data-driven insights, and identifiable opportunities to action.
Online gifting is booming. The ecommerce division of a global FMCG company wanted in, but first, they needed to assess the opportunity and build an investment case. They required a data-driven, go-to-market strategy to get the green light.
Given this was an emerging channel for the client, they faced several challenges: understanding channel behaviors, sizing the market, identifying priority markets, and tracking trends in online gifting, to name a few.
We leveraged a multi-methodology approach that included ecommerce analytics, market insights, and a multi-market survey. This included:
The mixed methodology approach delivered on all counts. The research:
Actionable insights from this study now inform go-to-market strategy for each country, new product and packaging, and plans for DTC sites. For the ecommerce team, it led to a fast green light for online gifting growth.
Across categories, we’ve seen new strategies and applications for online gifting emerging in the last year. While shoppers are beginning to return to brick-and-mortar retail as more people are vaccinated, and COVID protocols begin to lift, there’s strong evidence to suggest that online gifting is here to stay. So let Escalent help you win the online gifting game.
Along with solid investments returns, institutional investors are also seeking practical and insightful market perspectives. Cogent Syndicated's annual review of the US institutional market reveals the undercurrent of unmet needs among institutional investors offers a unique opportunity for wealth management firms to demonstrate their capabilities.
A new report from Cogent Syndicated reveals that Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are widely popular video streaming sites among financial advisors, with more than two-thirds of financial advisors subscribing to each platform.
A new report from Cogent Syndicated finds that while growth has stalled for advisor's use of model portfolios, SMA allocations are forecasted to grow significantly over the next two years.
