Where are you on your innovation journey?

The Catalyx 4-pillars to innovation progress

Are you looking to come up with some new product development, launch some new packaging or can’t understand why your product is struggling against the competition?

No matter where you are on your journey, we can help through our 4-pillars to innovation progress

Where are you on your innovation journey?

Are you looking to come up with some new product development, launch some new packaging or can’t understand why your product is struggling against the competition?

No matter where you are on your journey, we can help through our 4-pillars to innovation progress

The Catalyx 4-pillars to innovation progress

1

Discover Audiences, Occasions, Tensions and Needs

Discover strategic choices for category and innovation opportunities to drive brand growth. Unlock unmet needs and demand space opportunities.

  • Segment audiences by attitudes, needs or occasions
  • Surface tensions and unmet needs
  • Make demand spaces actionable
  • Snapshot of human context, usage or buying behaviour
2

Define Innovation Platform and Jobs to be Done

Build a ‘recipe card’ for innovation and associated communications, by creating innovation & brand platforms derived from consumer-driven ‘guard rails’ that will fuel productive solution ideation.

  • Innovation platform & ‘recipe card’ for success
  • Identify “Recipe Card” for comms success
3

Developing and Optimising your work in progress

Optimize your creative brand assets by taking early-stage ideas and optimising them with your consumers to evolve to best-in-class winners. We can rank and improve your winning concepts and assess through behavioural testing how well they perform against the competition.

  • Ideation grounded in strategy and insight
  • Determine prioritisation of brand assets, claims & attributes
  • Concept test, learn & improve
  • Turn struggling concepts into winning concepts
  • Simulate category buying mission – find incrementality
4

Maximising your in-market performance

Maximize your in-market potential by auditing your product or mapping path to purchase journey so you can identify the levers to pull and barriers to overcome to achieve growth in-market.

  • Maximise mental & physical performance
  • Understand & maximise the shopper journey

“Our Marketing team only want to work with Catalyx as their reporting is so actionable”

HOW WE’VE HELPED CONSUMER GOODS BRAND GROW

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Hot Beverages

The result

We were able to give our clients the confidence to completely re-launch the packaging for their whole range. This relaunch was executed in every market that our client sold in.

Read moreEvolve and Elevate

Spreads & Sweeteners

The result

A leading natural honey brand launched a nationwide advertising campaign shaped by consumer insight. Catalyx’s recommendations enabled the team to sharpen their messaging strategy and bring clarity to their creative direction, resulting in one of their most successful and enduring campaigns, still in use across the UK today.

Read moreScreen & Enhance

Grocery

The result

Our partnership with a leading UK food manufacturer helped them establish a repeatable model for innovation success. True to our philosophy of learn, not just test, we identified common consumer appeal factors across concept tests using meta-analysis, accelerating their ability to develop and launch winning innovations with greater precision and impact.

Read morePartnership Programme, Screen & Optimise, Category Context - Developing & Optimising Work in Progress

Grocery

The result

We provided strategic direction across 24 projects, covering 17 brands in 13 markets for a leading global snacking company. Our work helped the business maximise consumer appeal and performance across its existing product portfolio, giving teams the insight and clarity needed to unlock brand growth.

Read morePartnership Programme - maximising appeal & performance in market

Ready to Drink (RTD)

The result

Catalyx delivered the strategic direction needed for a successful U.S. launch of a new organic ready-to-drink cold brew range. The product line, designed around key consumer needs, gained strong traction — particularly among younger American coffee drinkers — and significantly enhanced the brand’s presence in the competitive ready-to-drink coffee segment.

Read moreUnmet needs / demand space & path to purchase optimiser

INTIMATE PRODUCTS

The result

The client developed a new gifting proposition within their intimate wellness range and saw a 10% increase in content conversion as a result of the work. The outputs continue to support both short- and long-term commercial planning across multiple product categories.

Read moreDemand spaces

BABY FOOD

What we did

Using our award-winning qual at quant scale research approach, we gathered over 50,000 pieces of consumer data to reveal both functional drivers and emotional motivations. Our strategists turned this into a clear, story-led understanding of the “why” behind behaviour, enabling the client to confidently move forward with a differentiated and commercially successful product range.

Read moreUnmet needs & brand positioning