Research
& Insights
- Our services:
- Research
- Insights
- Trend Tours

Only by truly understanding our consumers, the cultures they live in and the world your brand operates in, are we able to create work which deeply connects with them.
We do this by carefully curating information from data, workshops and interviews. This allows us to formulate meaningful and innovative insights to support strategic and business decisions, which ultimately gives us the knowledge to meet your business results.
Research
Knowledge through data curatorship
The world is increasingly nuanced and complicated. Through taking a holistic view which combines various forms of qualitative and quantitive research, we’re able to better unlock todays consumer feelings, expectations, attitudes and opinions, validating thought and insight. This allows us to create robust recommendations on brands, theories and products.
These methodologies are delivered by an in-house team that are able to curate bespoke processes to best unlock what lies beneath your business challenges.
Competitor & sector analysis
Analysis of your key competitors allows us to identify key areas for opportunity ensuring you can maintain a relevant offer with longevity.
Creative concept testing
From naming and rebranding to brand assets and values we can test and produce successful concepts for our clients.
Customer feedback
Using survey techniques, we are able to draw rich insight about your customers, which can be translated into key opportunities for your business.
Stakeholder interviews
Talking to the key pillars of your business – your employees, founders, and partners allows us to gain a holistic understanding of your brand and how it works.
Qualitative focus groups
We can help you get to the bottom of consumer thoughts, attitudes and behaviours using qualitative focus groups, workshops or interviews.
Consumer mindset & trends
Delving deep into your consumer’s behaviours, habits, expectations, and attitudes allows us to understand what makes your consumers tick.
Insights
We use a number of secondary research techniques to define key insights per project.
We feel strongly that by understanding customers and their attitudes we can create better and more engaging work.
First of all – to do this – we look inwards. Competitor and sector analysis affords opportunity to look widely at your sector – creating a snapshot view of the landscape to understand where and what our differentiators could be. As part of our competitor analysis, we often define key brand ambitions or aspirations and look out of sector to understand how other brands are achieving this.
Secondly, we look outwards and to the future. Our in-house research team can help you to understand macro trends affecting customers now and in future as well as brands who have started to innovate to meet these expectations.
Customer attitudes
Looking at customer attitudes through a macro lens means our team can carve meaningful conclusions to contextualise the customer.
Out of sector inspiration
We want to make sure you stay ahead of the game, and our in-house research team will help you understand not just your sector- but the world better.
Brand positioning
Defining your space in the market is key to ensuring success. We can help to spot the opportunities which will be integral to your business.
Interest area deep dive
Working in a specific market? We can help you to get to grips with the nuances and innovations of the sector.
Competitor analysis
Analysis of your key competitors allows us to identify key areas for opportunity ensuring you can maintain a relevant offer with longevity.
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Trend tours
Individually designed to help you understand and identify the current retail innovators.


To be the most innovative and intuitive brand and business, you need to have your finger on the pulse of the retail and hospitality world. Our Trend Tours take you straight to a multitude of examples across sectors.
What will you take from a Trend Tour?
- Impactful inspiration and innovation to action within your teams and stores.
- Real-time conversations and creative discussion with our wider team regarding innovation and change to be actioned.
- Staying ahead of your competitors. Discover the latest innovations and trends in offline and online retail that will put us in the shoes of today’s consumer.
- Team building and bonding with peers. Opportunity for senior leadership to spend quality time with their direct team offering guidance, advice and debate.
- A summary of the specific destinations visited and key take-outs from post visit discussions will be collated into a single document and issued for ongoing reference.
Retail
We take you to the most innovative and experiential retail brands who really know their audience and have created purposeful spaces.
Experience
Throughout the duration of the tour every element is carefully considered. From staying at a design hotel to visiting the latest art exhibition. The tour itself will ensure that the team experience the new and exciting.
Hospitality
As well as seeing the best of the retail world, trend tours capture the most pioneering examples of relevant hospitality, bars and restaurants. We can take inspiration from service, interior design and overall approach.
Technology
Our tours take you to the most cutting-edge technology. Seeing first-hand the brands who have created strategies where the online and offline experiences have been seamlessly linked.
Our Trend Tours will take you to the heart of retail innovation
Our bespoke trend tours take you straight to the heart of the world's most interesting and insightful retail and hospitality across key cities such as London, New York, China, Dubai, India and Berlin.