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What are large CPG brands doing to differentiate their consumer intelligence so they can innovate more effectively?

Are you still waiting until products show up on the shelf to understand the market and take action? ‘Chief Forecaster’, Stephan Gans, from PepsiCo explains how that was the industry norm until recently.

Stop asking questions and start getting answers

Lipstick out, moisturiser in Back in August, the famous ‘lipstick index’, a phrase coined by Leonard Lauder signifying the resilience of cosmetics during times of economic turmoil due to consumers turning to makeup as an affordable indulgence, was substituted by the ‘moisturising index’.

Black Swan’s new Covid Classifier explained The pitfalls of analysing consumer behaviour in a pandemic

Break the COVID research paralysis and get your 2021+ innovation pipeline back on track. Covid-19: A perfect storm for Insight and Innovation teams We Brits tend to be rather good at weather metaphors. In the early days of Covid-19, we likened the confusion, uncertainty and sense of darkness that many of us were feeling to being caught in a storm.