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INTRODUCING GROUNDED THINKING

A shopper led approach to helping brands & retailers understand the issues and role of instore today.

Grounded's unique blend of shopper research and retail operational experience helps brands develop, validate and guide programmes to activation in store.

Grounded's proprietary approach to research helps identify real world connections between brand, retail and shopper. Building shopper led retail strategies that inform design development, execution and validation. Ensuring nothing is Lost in Translation.

MORE THAN JUST A RESEARCH COMPANY

Grounded bring together metrics and analysis to establish the real commercial value behind in store initiatives and programmes.

Grounded's combination of research and strategy builds commercial justification to today's sophisticated multi channel market and shopper behaviour. Bringing context to investment decisions for utilising retail as an effective marketing medium.

"Grounded has been a valuable partner assisting us in unlocking our retail potential & deepen our retailer relationships.

Their insight led to great improvements in Shoppers' experiences."

"We've worked with Grounded for a few years and the journey this far has been so exciting, I've always found their approach to be fresh, focused and flexible to our needs.

Together, we've generated many deep customer insights that have helped us make better commercial decisions and drive business success.

I'd recommend their expertise in 'Shopper', as well as their ability to understand a business/industry and establish the most appropriate methods to meet customer briefs.

I'm continually excited by their ideas and use of leading technology to produce new insights.

They have an engaging appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, and they've become a valued part of my insights team."

"Our company needed deep understanding and assurance for our Brand on a new Global Point Of Purchase concept.

Grounded delivered a thorough Shopper understanding, evaluation & recommendations, through a range of methodologies that enabled optimised execution for roll out.

Not only did they answer the challenges, they helped to identify significant opportunities for future improvement.

The team at Grounded are of great help to me and I look forward to working with them again in the future."

"I had little experience of shopper insights agencies prior to Grounded……. but they have delivered findings beyond my expectations, providing outstanding understanding of our shoppers.

Their experience in retail has improved our processes & thinking of how we approach and continue to improve the Customer Experience.

They are consistently bringing new methods, ideas and appropriate challenges to us to help keep us on our 'A' game.

The new levels of performance we're achieving as a result speak for themselves."

"We have worked with Grounded successfully for several years and we really appreciate the experience they deliver with Eye Tracking in Retail Evaluation.

Their rigorous approach is first class - certainly better than anyone else with whom we have worked!

We appreciate how they have also added great value in working closely using a range of data, reports, operating documents and insights to optimise the rigour of Eye Tracking's contribution.

My team and I always look forward to engaging with Grounded's latest initiative.

Their approach to Shopper research is refreshing and dynamic. I have no hesitation in stating their 'Market Leader' position in the field of Retail Insight."

"We believed certain categories were often confusing for Shoppers which led to poor purchase levels.

This hypothesis proved to be true by Grounded who provided actionable insight.

Using various researching techniques and capturing video of  the Shoppers behaviours helped our engagement with the retailers, allowing them to see the challenge and the scale of the missed opportunity.

The improvements made delivered extraordinary category increases whilst improving our trading relationships."

UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF DISPLAY INSTORE

Issue Definition | Shopper Journey | Activation

Increased product competition in the diy sector had impacted the diy market leaders. This lack of differentiation was being reflected with sales at the point of purchase.

Grounded developed a shopper led programme to identify in store perceptions of brands and current marketing and communication. Grounded provided metrics and insight to define a new criteria for point of purchase and instore communication; providing the framework for briefing design agencies and assessing development. This has resulted in market leading execution for the client's european, middle east and african regional roll-out.

NEW SHOPPER MISSIONS

Shopper Journey | Trends | Shopper Validation

Current display programmes were not fulfilling shopper missions for a food brands product range. Grounded developed a shopper insight programme to measure and evaluate shopper missions and needstates across the product range, display and retail channels.

Grounded identified patterns and differences across the various product ranges, generating criteria for revised display formats.

Grounded provided continued assessment by validating the new approach through an in-store 'test and learn' initiative before investing in roll out.

BUILDING BRAND & RETAIL PARTNERSHIPS

Retail Assessment | Test Programmes | Retail Scoping

A leading drinks brand needed to understand the potential opportunity of a display programme with a major retailer.

Grounded developed research criteria and an instore audit to assess the potential fit, real world viability and compliance. The results helped understand the return on investment and the full impact of the initiative before commiting. Grounded's insights identified additional marketing opportunities furthering the brand & retailer partnership.

RELATING TO BRAND & PRODUCTS IN STORE

Shopper Journey | Retail Assessment | Partnerships

As part of a multi channel review of communication, grounded was asked to bring a clear perspective of shopper perceptions and instore experience of consumer technology.

Grounded developed an insights programme across key retail partners to ascertain ideal shopper journey's, their associated needs, wants and expectations. Patterns and requirements were compared with todays retail reality and competitor approaches to develop innovative shopper led solutions to category management. This approach has led to dialogue with relevant retail partners for increased investment and shared opportunity.

GLOBAL AUDIT FOR RETAIL DISPLAY PROGRAMMES

Strategy Definition | Retail Scoping | Activation

Part of building it's brand communication, a sports technology brand wanted to assess the viability of implementing a single retail marketing approach for all it's channels and international markets.

Grounded formulated and executed a retail audit across eight key countries. Evaluating and measuring retail requirements to identify patterns, gaps and opportunities for multi market delivery. Formulated on fact based information from shoppers and retailers, grounded created a narrative  for a complete re-design of their displays that will underpin their new retail programme.