Bonsai goes nimble

Flink, one of Europe's leading instant food delivery services, is cooperating with Bonsai Research. Manufacturers can use Bonsai to quickly access the behavioral data of orderers, have surveys conducted, and thus better understand the market for instant grocery delivery services. Bonsai is thus expanding its test market expertise to include quick commerce.

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Elke Loew
Bonsai launches Bonsai Public

Bonsai Research bundles its expertise and innovative research projects with social relevance - for companies, NGOs and other institutions. Bonsai Public shows where and how companies can get involved and position themselves "correctly" in the social context. Jan Borcherding becomes Head of Bonsai Public.

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Elke Loew
How Germany thinks and feels: Freedom is the most important value again after ten years!

Under the title "Values Index Update 2022-2 - Between Freedoms," the first results of the largest social media study on social developments are being published today in advance. People's longing for ease and freedom has grown enormously in permanent crisis mode. The problem: The pursuit of individual freedoms threatens to divide our society. The new Values Index, the largest social media study on social change, shows: Freedom, health and family are the values that people are most concerned about. For the 9th Values Index, almost seven million posts on social media were analyzed with the help of AI after the start of the war in Ukraine.

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Savings are being made on the subject of health: Is inflation becoming a brand killer for pharmacy products?

When it comes to health, savings are made - the new buying behavior of pharmacy customers. Bonsai Health today publishes current figures from Bonsai ApoVote - the representative survey of pharmacists in Germany. Is inflation becoming a brand killer for pharmacy products? According to Bonsai ApoVote, 80 percent of pharmacists say their customers' buying behavior has changed in the face of inflation. 57 percent of pharmacists note: their customers are asking more frequently for cheaper product alternatives. In these cases, manufacturers' advertising investments pay more to the category than to the brand. Bonsai ApoVote shows: 42 percent of pharmacies are selling fewer products overall.

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Elke Loew
"Creativity as a success factor" makes the difference for companies

Creative companies are demonstrably more successful, according to the new study "Success Factor Creativity". The study's central question: What do creative companies do differently from others? "Success Factor Creativity" is the first study in Germany to measure what effect business creativity has on companies in competition. The study is published by the Hirschen Group and Bonsai Research - supported by Wirtschaftsjunioren Deutschland e.V. (WJD).

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Virtual Reality as in Games - Research at the Virtual POS

Bonsai Research and VR INSIGHT are now cooperating to take virtual POS research to a new level. In the virtual supermarket or virtual gas station, users can not only "shop" but really interact - even with the salespeople. 90 percent of participants say they were immersed in the virtual reality of the store and were in 'shopping mode'. Research in virtual spaces in a quality that users are familiar with from the latest games.

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The new Bonsai BrandMap - Brand management without any frills

Bonsai Research is now expanding its portfolio on the topic of brand management. The new research program on the topic of brand starts with the launch of the Bonsai BrandMap in Germany. The BrandMap was developed and validated by Bonsai together with the Scandinavian company Insights Distillery - and is already in use internationally. The new Bonsai BrandMap makes the personality aspect of brands the decisive factor that determines everything the brand says and does. The new Bonsai BrandMap makes brand personalities transparent, understandable and designable. The scientific basis is the five-factor model established in psychology.

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Elke Loew
Bonsai launches Bonsai Health - with Bettina Mertens-Danowski

Bonsai Research brings another proven health expert on board with Bettina Mertens-Danowski. The research specialist - traditionally strong in the health sector with its pharmacy panel, among other things - is combining the activities in the new unit Bonsai Health. An important component of Bonsai Health continues to be access to relevant sales data via the Bonsai partner NOVENTI.

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Enjoy, it's from Europe

Positioning fruit from Europe better because it is more sustainable than imports from Asia or South America is the aim of the two campaigns "Get a Fruit" and "Refresh Your Life", which are funded by the European Union. Within the framework of these campaigns, Bonsai Sales supports agricultural cooperatives in launching their products on the German market. In addition to the campaigns in the trade and listings in test markets, with which consumers are directly addressed, Bonsai also organises B2B events for trade and wholesale - now a tasting with TV and chef Roberto Enßlen as part of the Fruit Logistica industry trade fair.

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The new Values Index: How Germany thinks and feels

Under the title "Values Index Update 2022/1 - Project Confidence", the new evaluation of the largest social media study on social developments is published today. The current values index shows: Health, freedom and family are the values that people are most concerned about. Last year, a total of 18,825,145 social media posts were evaluated with the help of artificial intelligence - more than ever before. However, the "new" values index is also not a study of large numerical orgies: rather, the results are used to interpret the change in values, to detect new trends and to find concrete examples of how companies, politics and society are already changing and will have to change in the future.

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Bonsai brings food start-ups forward

Bonsai now also offers start-ups sales in the food service sector - in gastronomy, communal catering and wholesale. Only one month after the launch of the new unit "Bonsai Sales & Food Services", the first projects for two new customers are already underway. For example, Bonsai will convince restaurateurs and caterers of GASTROtaste's innovative smothie and bowl concept POMOM. And the Zebra Bars and Zebra Ice from the Hanover-based start-up Zonama will bring Bonsai to wholesalers and where the demand for snacks is greatest - for example at petrol stations.

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Customer reviews - Gen Z does not feel taken seriously

Everyone is talking about customer experience (CX). Bonsai In its latest study, Research asked those who are really concerned about the topic: the consumers. One result: Half of Gen Z is annoyed by the many rating requests: Only half of teens and twens still think that companies take their ratings seriously, just as many ignore rating requests more often than before. Overall, customers like to give feedback: 88 percent give reviews when asked to do so after a purchase, service or repair. Relatively many experience requests from online shops (71 per cent), retailers (44 per cent) and telecommunication providers (35 per cent).

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CX expert Martin Siek comes to Bonsai

Bonsai Research continues to expand. This time in the area of Customer Experience (CX), where Martin Siek is joining today as Head of Customer Experience. Martin Siek will lead the CX & Mystery Research division together with Maik Stücken. Martin Siek is a proven CX expert and was previously with von Kantar.

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Elke Loew
Bonsai cooperates with go2market

The Bremen-based market research specialist for consumer and shopper research is now working with go2market to complement its portfolio for product launches and product optimisation in German retail. go2market is a real-life test market with locations in Vienna and, since June 2021, also in Cologne. The members who shop there - 3,000 in Cologne - are representative of the population in Germany.

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