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4<br />
On<br />
the Cover:<br />
<strong>Baby</strong> <strong>Boomer</strong><br />
<strong>Segmentation</strong><br />
contents<br />
4 <strong>Baby</strong> <strong>Boomer</strong> <strong>Segmentation</strong>: Eight is Enough<br />
Given its relative size and influence on U.S. consumer markets,<br />
surprisingly little formal, quantitative segmentation work has been<br />
conducted on <strong>Baby</strong> <strong>Boomer</strong>s. The question remains: how to right-size<br />
the huge <strong>Boomer</strong> cohort? How many segments would capture the<br />
important often subtle nuances that can spell the difference between a<br />
successful new product launch or marketing campaign and a complete<br />
misfire? Turns out, eight segments is enough.<br />
20<br />
Global<br />
Household<br />
Product Sales:<br />
Innovative Items<br />
Clean Up<br />
12<br />
12 Global Household Product Sales:<br />
Innovative Items Clean Up<br />
Analyzing household products on a global scale involves a pretty big<br />
bucket of categories and countries. What’s Hot Around the Globe—<br />
Insights on Growth in Household Products, one in a series of ACNielsen<br />
reports on the fastest-growing products and category drivers, encompasses<br />
66 markets and 29 household product areas.<br />
20 Tune Into Teens: Test Your Teen Aptitude<br />
Teens are a moving target. They were born and raised during a digitized<br />
age where change happens rapidly. Born into the MTV generation where<br />
the rally cry was “I want my MTV”, they have learned that what they want,<br />
they get. In their world, everything is immediate. From instant messaging<br />
to microwave meals, instant gratification is their mantra.<br />
28 Employee Empowerment:<br />
The Key to Capturing Productivity<br />
Ask any successful salesperson, and they’ll tell you that timely, accurate<br />
information represents the best armor they’ve got in the profit wars.<br />
The bulletproof concept resonates with every salesperson who has<br />
ever had to sell-in a new product, argue a price increase or stave off a<br />
competitive threat. To be effective in today’s hyper-charged, customized,<br />
store-level–focused retail environment, salespeople need a virtual arsenal<br />
of presentations capable of being refreshed with current data at the<br />
touch of a button.<br />
34 Gas Price Hikes Put Brakes on Spending<br />
Crude oil prices ignited again this summer, surpassing the $70 a barrel<br />
threshold and pushing prices at the pump to an inflammatory $3+ per<br />
gallon. Factors like market speculation, refinery capacity shortages and<br />
a pronounced decline in spare global oil production converged, leaving<br />
cash-strapped consumers scrambling to adjust budgets and spending<br />
accordingly.<br />
Tune Into Teens: Test<br />
Your Teen Aptitude<br />
34<br />
Gas Price Hikes<br />
Put Brakes on<br />
Spending<br />
28<br />
Employee<br />
Empowerment:<br />
The Key to<br />
Capturing<br />
Productivity<br />
42 Cracking the Retail C.O.D.E.<br />
Winning at retail is enabled by applying a simple, systematic four-step<br />
process that we call “Cracking the Retail C.O.D.E.” The methodology<br />
employs a series of critical steps to optimize brand or product success<br />
in the marketplace. This consumer-centric approach links actions in the<br />
store—where they matter the most—back to the consumers most likely<br />
to purchase your brand.<br />
50 Trendwatch—Walk-In Retail Clinics:<br />
A Healthy Savings Idea<br />
“Would you like some chicken soup with that prescription?” While grocery<br />
stores have always stocked this form of “liquid penicillin”, today they’re<br />
home to the real deal—walk-in clinics staffed by nurse practitioners<br />
licensed to diagnose and treat common conditions such as allergies,<br />
bladder infections, bronchitis, ear infections, the flu, heartburn, muscle<br />
pain, pink eye, minor burns and rashes.