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Win at retail: creating effective pricing and promotion strategies – NIQ report

Report

Win at retail: creating effective pricing and promotion strategies – NIQ report


  • In today’s fast-paced markets, the key to success lies in mastering pricing and promotions strategies
  • Read our latest report to uncover how top retailers use data-driven strategies to boost revenue, foster loyalty, and outpace the competition
  • Discover how emerging trends reshape retail strategies and how data-driven insights should refine retailers pricing planning and how to execute promotions with long-term business success

Gain the insights you need to balance profitability with competitive strength

1% improvement in price delivers an 11% improvement in margins – Boost revenue with smarter pricing and promotion strategies

Effective pricing and promotion strategies help combat unpredictable markets, smooth market volatility, and drive revenue. They can improve customer loyalty and satisfaction, and lift brand performance. Retailers must leverage accurate data and actionable insights to drive business growth.   

Retailers of all sizes are moving away from inflexible, rules-based pricing to embrace AI-powered technologies for a more intuitive approach. These advanced tools harness accurate first- and third-party data, drawing on factors like market performance, competitor insights, consumer behavior, supply chain costs, demographics, seasonal events, and even weather forecasts.  

This allows retailers to adapt pricing and promotions strategies in real time, staying competitive in an ever-changing market. 

50% of promotions wouldn’t have happened without the offer. Leverage data to maximize revenue.

The rules of pricing and promotion have evolved—gain deeper insights with our comprehensive report. Download now to explore advanced strategies, actionable data, and best practices that are driving success in this new era of retail. Learn how these methods have delivered impactful results and how they can be applied to your business for better outcomes.  

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The Data-Driven Advantage

A data-led pricing and promotions strategy is the key to retail success. Many retailers struggle to accurately measure the incremental sales and margins generated by both every day and promotional pricing, often focusing solely on absolute sales. Without clear ROI insights, future strategies and decisions are compromised, giving competitors an edge. Our approach helps retailers harness data to optimize pricing and promotions, ensuring strategic decisions are based on measurable outcomes that drive both growth and profitability.  

Put consumer understanding at the center of your pricing strategies. Invest in consumer research and data analysis to gain insights into their needs, preferences, and pain points. Use these insights to tailor your pricing to meet consumer demands.

Michael McLaughlin, President of International Retail, NIQ

NielsenIQ is uniquely positioned to provide retailers with the data they need to make faster, more effective decisions on pricing and promotions to ensure short- and long-term success

Revenue Optimizer

Optimize brand portfolio pricing, pack/price architecture, and promotions

Performance Pricing

Analysis of price point dispersion and the potential impact on sales and profitability

Enriched Events

Analytical models that offer in-depth understanding of a promotion’s event performance

Custom Price and Promotion

High-end trade and price analytics based on disaggregated datasets at the store-week level

Everyday Analytics

Accessible in-flight pricing and promotion analytics to support pricing and promotion decisions

Opportunities

Automated, pre-simulated pricing and promotion recommendations

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Future of pricing and promotion

“Retailers need to maximize their data assets by supplementing them with accurate, reliable third-party sources and expertise that can be integrated together to plot a course through the next phase of retail going beyond the retailer’s own business impact to winning at a total market level”.

Parm Singh, Head of Retail Analytics, NIQ