Tackling the toughest business challenges CPG faces today

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

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Helping retail banks and financial services companies for over 15 years.

Since 1989, some of the world’s largest CPG companies have been looking to MMA as an essential marketing and media advisor. Some of the first clients at MMA were leading CPG brands with multiple brand portfolios, products, and promoted product groups. Today, MMA has evolved to include services that help address the tough business issues that CPG companies face, including marketing/media mix optimization, price and promotion and forecasting.

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As a Solution for CPG Business Intelligence

Whether the product vertical is in snacks, cereals, foods, detergents, shampoos, cosmetics, toiletries, consumer healthcare or beverages, MMA has the solutions to answer the tough business questions. Typical marketing challenges in CPG include price and promotion, marketing/media planning and ROI, brand health and forecasting. MMA is able to model CPG brands at any response level, including brand, product, or promoted product group and at any geographic level in order to appropriately tackle the challenges CPG marketers face.

Tackling the Tough Business Questions with Consumer Goods Analytics

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What is the optimal marketing budget and mix of activities to sales and profit by market and by channel?

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What is the specific ROI of marketing investments and campaigns?

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What are the effects and/or synergies between traditional and digital media?

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How can I target consumer segments with the right media? Everyday price? Promotional tactics?

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How can I identify price gaps and thresholds?

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How are recent consumer attitudes impacting my marketing and pricing strategies? How can I get the most recent insights into consumer attitudes and loyalties embedded into my analytics?

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What is the best balance between long term and short term activities, such brand building advertising, customer loyalty programs and promotions?

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What is the impact of in-store activities?

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How can I link predictive analytics to my everyday business processes to get more value from them?

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How can companies manage marketing performance on a continuous, forward-looking basis?

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What is the ROI opportunity for operational improvements such as pricing, assortment and distribution?

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How will environmental, competitive and economic factors impact sales?

Client Successes

Improve Business Performance through Marketing ROI Optimization

“Unified Marketing Measurement is a critical capability within the automotive industry for OEMs to capture the complex and diverse array of business drivers, including marketing, incentives, operations, economic, competition and consumer, to enable accurate measurement of incremental sales across our portfolio brands. This solution provides predictive actions that we can implement, track, and validate against true business impact.”

Jon Francis | Chief Data & Analytics Officer, General Motors

Measured Marketing Effectiveness in a Holistic, Accurate and Globally Manner

Marketing is rightly being held more accountable for true business outcomes across both the short and long term, and that involves connecting multiple complex and siloed datasets for truly holistic analytics. Doing so has allowed us to budget more effectively, forecast future outcomes and track true marketing effectiveness in order to optimize our investment choices across markets, campaign types and channels.

Andy Pilkington |  Global Head of Planning, Media & Analytics, Volvo

Accelerated Profitable Brand Growth at McCormick

Ipsos-MMA consistently delivers robust measurement that enables us to build better media plans that drive higher ROIs, expand measurement in critical areas such as retail media and other emerging tactics, and has provided the support needed to increase media investment and drive business results.

Ramesh Moorthy | Global Strategic Growth Management, Senior Director, McCormick

Empowered Cross-functional Teams to Optimize Commercial Investments

By connecting diverse data and analytics to provide a common foundation for insights, we are empowering cross-functional teams to optimize commercial investments in a synergistic manner, predict future outcomes and continuously track, validate and recalibrate plans using faster, more accurate and more holistic analytic results reflecting the latest consumer, market and business dynamics.

Arvind Balasundaram | Executive Director, Commercial Insights & Analytics, Regeneron

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