Bonsai startet seine neue virtuelle Forschungsplattform für Category Management, Produkt-, Packungs- und Konzepttests. Im Rahmen einer Roadshow (s.u.) zeigen wir gemeinsam mit unserem Kunden Rotkäppchen-Mumm, was die virtuellen Testmärkte von Bonsai und das neue, smarte Angebot Studio@Home wirklich bringen.

Bonsai launches its new virtual research platform for category management, product, packaging and concept tests. The highlight: in cooperation with HGT (Herzog, Glaser, Thelen), we are now combining tests in the studio with Studio@Home. A solution that is not only innovative, but above all efficient. As part of a roadshow (see below), together with our client Rotkäppchen-Mumm, we are demonstrating the real benefits of Bonsai 's virtual test markets and the new, smart offering.

Our test market specialists demonstrated the reality of the virtual test market live at the Succeet 2025 market research fair: For those who missed it, here is the YouTube video we filmed at the fair. Stefan Feldmeier, member of the management team at Bonsai and responsible for the test markets: "I have never seen a virtual store that is so realistic." Really? Really!

Our test market specialists invite you to experience the new reality of the virtual test market live: At the Succeet 2025 market research trade fair in Wiesbaden. On 12.02.2025 from 17:10 to 17:25 on the Succeet Open Stage, Stefan Feldmeier and Immanuel Bücking will show you how the test market works today. And immediately afterwards, you can test our VR yourself - from 17:30 at the FRAG bonsai Happy Hour at the Open Stage.

Bonsai Research has taken over the market research division of its previous cooperation partner VR Insight. With virtual reality-based shopper and store research, Bonsai rounds off the test market portfolio. The VR Insight brand will remain under the Bonsai umbrella. Markenartikel, marktforschung.de and Horizont.de (planung & analyse) report on this.

Bonsai Research and EMSU, the provider of digital campaigns at the point of sale (PoS), are now cooperating. In our new test market, companies can measure the success of their digital campaigns at the PoS. We help companies to understand the actual impact of their media placement in retail - and offer a playground to try things out on a small scale.

This is how innovation research works today: from the first idea to the finished product or service in the market. From the first idea to the finished product or service on the market. Our colleagues take you on our Innovation Journey. Today, Stefan Feldmeier and Prof. Dirk Frank show how to make early potential estimates and new, real and virtual test market formats even for completely new products and categories in the context of growth potential studies.

Flink, one of Europe's leading instant grocery delivery services, is partnering with Bonsai Research. Manufacturers can use Bonsai to quickly access shoppers' behavioral data, have surveys conducted and better understand the market for instant grocery delivery services. The "Markenartikel" reports on this.

Food Harbour Hamburg was opened in the Hanseatic city this week - with a large contingent from politics and business. In the future, next-generation foods will be developed, tested and brought to market in the Food Harbor. Bonsai Research is a partner in the project.

Whether you are a start-up or an established manufacturer - with the Bonsai Professionals Box you will receive expert feedback from the catering industry before the market launch of your new product. Chefs, purchasing managers and managers from the wholesale trade test and evaluate not only taste, preparation and packaging in their establishments. The gastronomy professionals also make suggestions for product improvements and pricing and assess the potential for success.

Our multi-stage study for the fruit and nut bar RAWBITE has been running since October 2021. We reported on the individual steps of the study. Now the final report is available and the makers of RAWBITE have decided how to use the results for the marketing of the bar.

The tests conducted by Bonsai Research for the fruit and nut bar RAWBITE are going into the next round: At our cooperation partner go2market, the bars with the alternative claim are now on the shelves. Part 3 of our series on the RAWBITE study.

The fruit and nut bar RAWBITE is selling very well in the Cologne test supermarket go2market - and is also convincing in terms of appeal and taste. The question of how the bar's claim will affect purchasing behaviour remains exciting. Part 2 of our series on the RAWBITE study.

Our new cooperation with the innovative test supermarket go2market is the topic of "markenartikel" and "marktforschung.de", among others. With RAWBITE, the fruit-nut bar from the Bahlsen Group, the first study has also just started. What we can offer in cooperation with go2market - and how RAWBITE tests with the new tool ...

Yesterday, the fruit and nut bar RAWBITE launched its first trial with Bonsai Research in Cologne's go2market, a test supermarket for product launches, relaunches and optimisations. RAWBITE is the first client to use the new go2market module of the Bonsai Launch Pad - our toolbox for exploring the opportunities of new launches and potential changes to established products. How does this work and what do we do for RAWBITE?

Bonsai Research presents exciting research approaches in four events at Market Research Week: We decode the Path to Purchase anew and present how we intelligently combine qualitative research and metering. We show what companies gain from researching the context that shapes people in all walks of life and why CX is less about the "right" software and more about the effective use of the "right" data.

For the first time in its 95-year history, the International Green Week took place as a purely digital event in Berlin on 21 and 22 January. More than 20,000 users took advantage of the IGW platform. Jens Krüger spoke at the event "Reinventing Food Business" about how large retail companies have to change in order to establish real customer proximity.

In the new CX-Talks podcast, Peter Pirner (i-CEM) talks to Bonsai-CEO Jens Krüger about test markets and mystery shopping. How do test markets work in the age of e-commerce? How can companies use them to optimise product innovations and make market launches easier to plan?

In an interview with planung&analyse, Bonsai CEO Jens Krüger talks about the test markets of the future, the development of Bonsai into a platform for experimental marketing and his plans.