Becoming the partner of choice for global beauty brands 

Challenge

Joining a newly formed Consumer & Market Insights (CMI) team, Project Manager Justine Catala sometimes faced difficulties with the data quality and pricing structures and sought out a better option. That’s what brought her to Attest. 

Justine relies on consumer insight to underpin the product strategy and sales enablement for the Active Beauty division at Givaudan. 

The insights generated create a strong differentiation for Givaudan against their competitors in each of their active markets, allowing them to uphold their status as ‘the partner of choice for their customers.’

If you don’t meet the expectations of the final customers’ needs, then there are plenty of other partner options that they can turn to, especially in the world of cosmetics. To win new business, you have to be on trend. You have to respond to what consumers need and are looking for. So you must know them, through research.

Justine Catala, Consumer & Market Insights at Givaudan

Solution

Market analysis and category research allowed Givaudan to listen to consumers and either gain validation on their current ingredients and claims or unveil new trends to act upon and differentiate against the competition. This in turn provided confidence in Givaudan from their buyers. 

It is widely known that Chinese consumers are drawn to scientific ingredients… One surprising discovery we found among our various studies was that Chinese consumers were the ones claiming to buy the most organic or natural products. This felt more like the French or Brazilian profile, but actually Chinese consumers are buying these a lot.

And the data quality concerns? With three layers of data quality checks and a pricing structure that only charges you per quality response attained, Attest provided them a good solution. 

It is what we were looking for in terms of data quality and we are now more comfortable to ask open-ended questions. It is better because it provides us with more in-depth insights that  we can present to our internal teams and then onto our customers.