Ipsos Reid » Retail
With the retail spectrum comprising international brand giants and specialty niche players – both coming at consumers through a wide-variety of distribution channels – the industry is hard to pin down. Retail is a constantly evolving, highly fragmented environment.
Understanding and building relationships with consumers, and carving a unique and compelling positioning with a strong and highly differentiated brand, requires exceptional market acumen.
The retail industry experts at Ipsos Reid can help you to:
- Analyze customer or employee satisfaction
- Boost brand image or market positioning
- Develop and assess advertising
- Establish benchmarks and/or track usage and attitudes among target consumers
- Identify market potential for new initiatives
- Segment current and prospective customers
Our retail teams have years of experience with a variety of different sectors and a proven track record of delivering actionable results, including:
- Apparel
- Beauty and cosmetics
- Computer and home electronics
- Convenience stores
- General merchandise, department stores
- Groceries
- Hardware, building supplies
- Liquor, alcoholic beverages
- Movies, home entertainment
- Restaurants (QSR to full service, and specialty food venues)
- Retail property developers
- Sporting goods
Ipsos Reid's retail industry team conducts a wide range of studies designed specifically for the retail sector including:
- Attitude and usage benchmark/tracking
- Brand awareness, image and equity
- Customer satisfaction/loyalty
- Decision tree research
- Ethnography
- Initiative assessment
- Market potential/assessment
- Segmentation
- Site/store evaluation
- Supplier research
- Testing/tracking advertising