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Navigating HFSS Reformulation
February 22, 2021Last summer, whilst most of us were getting to grips with tiers, masks and social distancing, the Government set out its Tackling Obesity Strategy. One of the first announcements was legislation to enforce calorie labelling of out-of-home foods sold in restaurants, cafés, and takeaways with more than 250 employees. Amongst the other proposals...
Bring your Concepts and Packaging to Life
April 23, 2020Bringing your Ideas, Concepts and Packaging to Life With most consumer research now being pivoted online, research that looks at ideas, claims and concepts is, not surprisingly, taking priority. Where the research fits in a client’s innovation process is broad: from an embryonic idea, to a fully branded, final positioning + product range...
Keep your R&D moving forward during Lock Down - Part 2
April 16, 2020Social distancing to control the spread of Covid - 19 changed the face of consumer research almost overnight. Face to face testing of products by consumers in Central Locations became impossible to justify against the safety of researchers and respondents and like all our partner agencies, Sensory Dimensions, quickly postponed much of its planned...
Brexit: How are consumers responding?
January 21, 2019Brexit: How are consumers responding? We are currently in a time of uncertainty, with the Brexit deadline of 29th March 2019 looming ever closer and the government’s strategy undecided. One deal has already been rejected and a no deal result is still a possibility. How are consumers starting to respond to Brexit? Are their choices changing, and...
What Makes a True Implicit Test?
October 29, 2018What makes a true Implicit Test? Eurosense 2018 seems a long time ago now but we had an excellent time and Emily’s paper, Measuring the Emotional Impact of Sweet Snacks, by implicit and explicit methods was extremely well received. It has led to some discussion about what makes a true implicit test. The confusion arises from the increased use...
Plastic, not so fantastic
August 24, 2018In response to the ongoing debate about plastic in the environment we ran an online survey to find out how changing attitudes to packaging are affecting buyer behaviour. Using our consumer database of ~10,000 people across the UK, we found that almost 50% of the consumers surveyed believed that three quarters of their shopping comes in plastic...