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Global carpet fiber manufacturer needed to better understand where their typical clients usually went for information on carpet and carpet fiber that would influence their purchase decisions

Client description:

Global carpet fiber manufacturer

Challenge: 

Global carpet fiber manufacturer needed to better understand how clients and potential clients informed themselves prior to purchase decisions, in order to better enable their marketing and communications efforts.

Methodologies: 

Extensive secondary research followed by qualitative research that included 14 IDIs and attendance at 2 industry conferences. We used the qualitative research to inform a quantitative survey of 298 respondents to provide more granular research findings.

The result: 

We provided a detailed report with strategic recommendations to aid the client in the development of a marketing campaign that would be much more effective due to the knowledge of where buyers and decision-makers went for information.

Geographic scope

US

Industries involved 

Architecture & Engineering, Healthcare, Real State, Retail

Services applied 

Industry Analysis

Methodologies 

Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research

Practice area

Market Research and Analysis

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