"Throw the boring and always the same ideas into the wastepaper basket".

Creatives sometimes cultivate their prejudices against market research, which supposedly sets them limits and "shoots down" the best ideas. In the New Business Podcast, Thomas Hoch (Head of NeedScope & Brand Strategy at Bonsai) and Walter Freese (Director Business Development at Interrogare) thoroughly dispel this prejudice and talk about how market research can support creatives.

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CSR expert Jan Borcherding comes to Bonsai

Planning & Analysis reports on another new addition to Bonsai. Jan Borcherding joins the Strategy Team as Head of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). The CR expert comes from Kantar, where he advised and supported well-known clients on the topic of corporate reputation management for years.

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BiFi: significant increase in sales through radio spots

BiFi and RMS wanted to know: What is the impact of a brand-building radio spot - without any price discount or promotion? One result from the Bonsai test market NRW: sales of BiFi Roll increased by 16 per cent as a result of the campaign. The increase in sales was particularly high at petrol stations, the location of one of the tested spots.

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Vitalising Beauty Shopping - Bonsai at the Cosmetics Association VKE

How sustainable will the sustainability trend affect the beauty industry? What innovative possibilities can retailers use to offer cosmetics customers new shopping experiences? Why do beauty products need purpose and how important is self-care? At Bonsai@VKE-Campus, cosmetics companies were given new impulses - by Jasmin Pampuch (Bonsai) and Marco Burkhardtsmayer (MuSe).

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"Bonsai Research acquires NeedScope"

Under this title, marktforschung.de reports that we have acquired the German licence for NeedScope from Kantar: "With the licence, part of the Brand Strategy team from Kantar will also switch to Bonsai on 1 April 2021: Thomas Hoch, Manuel Otte and Joachim Odendahl." Unilever, Mondeléz, Samsung and Google, among others, work with the emotion measurement tool.

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Qualitative research as a morsel provider - from sushi to insights

"Why qualitative research in particular is struggling so much in the context of other disciplines despite Covid-19 - and why a look at UX helps to understand what is currently lacking. Maybe at least." This topic is commented on by Bonsai CEO Jens Krüger in his column on marktforschung.de.

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How the cosmetics industry can benefit from social trends

Bonsai is a new supporting member of the VKE cosmetics association, where Jens Krüger was already active as an advisory board member. In a current expert article, the Bonsai-CEO deals with the question of how companies in the beauty segment can successfully react to megatrends such as individualisation, sustainability and ethical consumption.

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Media professional Michael Voß moves to Bonsai

Bonsai expands media and advertising impact research..: Michael Voß started work today at the market research specialist Bonsai . As a Client Partner, he strengthens the Media & Analytics division. Michael Voß was previously at Kantar, where as Associate Director Media Research he managed projects for media marketers in particular.

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Bonsai takes on experienced researchers from Kantar

Sabine Hedwig Mohr writes in planning&analysis about the new developments at Bonsai: "Customer Experience and the Bonsai Lab are being strengthened. Further acquisitions are announced". marktforschung.de reports on Bonsai: "The most advanced so far is the further development of the Customer Experience/Mystery Research division."

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Green Week Berlin: Food Start-ups - Reinventing Food Business

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.

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Ethical Consumption Established in the Mainstream - Otto Group Trend Study

Ethical consumption has arrived in the middle of society: For more than two thirds of Germans, ethical criteria play an important role in their purchasing decisions. This is a result of the 5th Trend Study on Ethical Consumption by the Otto Group and the Trend Bureau (market research: Bonsai).

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Sparkassen Innovation Hub: How banks must respond to the change in values

In its new white paper, the Sparkassen Innovation Hub highlights eleven current trends and theses on the changing understanding of values and the resulting opportunities and challenges for savings banks and banks. It is based on the Values Index 2020 and other studies by Trendbüro, Bonsai Research, Kantar and measury.

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Entrance ticket for German trade

How do products from other countries enter the German market? The best way is with a system: that's why Bonsai is now researching successful marketing and pricing strategies for Greek products. How the tool works and how start-ups can use it to minimise market entry risks:

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