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Retail intelligence for category and insight teams

Full-category pack, pricing, and promotion insights. The market context and evidence behind every category and pricing conversation, internally and with retailers.
Today
Category strategy gets built on a partial, delayed view of the market.
  • A competitor moves on price and the retailer notices before you do, putting your position as a trusted advisor at risk.
  • A retailer challenges your category range as a whole, and you have no data showing how their range compares to other retailers, or evidence to back up your recommendation.
  • Category share slips, and by the time the quarterly review lands, the data behind it is three months old, too late to explain what happened or change course.
With Brand Nudge
Build category strategy that holds up when retailers push back.
  • Track competitor price and promotion moves daily, so every JBP starts with a confident, current view of the category.
  • The range review shows exactly how each retailer is positioned, whether their range skews premium or value, so you can push back on a category challenge with evidence, and compare it year on year.
  • The quarterly review is built on this week's data, so the numbers hold up when they're questioned.
Pricing and promotion intelligence

The range, promotional and NPD evidence behind every category conversation.

Range positioning, category whitespace, promotional trends and NPD tracking, built around how Category teams actually work.

Explore the pricing and promotion platform
Price trend and price ladder view
Pricing intelligence Price architecture and range positioning

Compare where your range sits on the price ladder, retailer by retailer.

Price positioning for your brand and every competitor, mapped by price point, pack size and format, across every retailer you track. Bring hard numbers into a range review or a category challenge.

Category whitespace and price point mapping
Whitespace Category gaps, mapped across every retailer

Spot a category gap before a competitor fills it.

Price points and pack formats mapped across the category and every retailer, so a structural gap, a price point or format nobody's serving, is visible before a competitor moves into it.

Interactive promotional calendar
Promotion intelligence Every promotion. Every retailer. Updated daily.

Every brand's promotions across the category, on one calendar.

Every promotional mechanic, discount depth and duration, mapped across every brand in the category. Compare this year's calendar against last year's to predict what a retailer's likely to run next, and track what else was live when your own promotion ran, ready to layer against your own sales data.

New product launches and delistings tracker
NPD and assortment Launches and delistings, across the category

Never get caught off guard by a competitor's move.

New product launches and delistings tracked across the category, so the picture used in a range review or an assortment conversation is never out of date.

For Category and Insight teams

How Category and Insight teams use Brand Nudge, day to day.

Compare price positioning and range composition, retailer by retailer.

Map the category by price and pack to spot the gaps.

Track every brand's promotions across the category, and predict what a retailer is likely to run next.

Track new launches, delistings and assortment changes across the category, daily.

Map your range on the price ladder

Every SKU positioned on the price ladder, by format and pack size, so the range covers the right price points without gaps or duplication.

Compare range depth by price point

Compare how many SKUs sit at each price point and pack size, yours and every competitor's, so a thin part of the range is as visible as a crowded one.

Track how the range changes over time

Every listing, delisting and price change to your range and competitors', tracked over time, so nothing shifts without you noticing.

Bring price and range data to the review

Price positioning and range composition for your brand and competitors, ready to bring into your next conversation with the retailer.

Map the category by price and pack

Every SKU, every brand, every retailer, grouped by price point, pack size and format, so a missing price point or pack size is easy to spot.

Check the gap across every retailer

The same price point or pack size checked at every retailer you track, so it's clear whether it's missing everywhere or just from one store.

Point to where it's already working

A price point or pack size that's already stocked at another retailer, giving your pitch a working example to point to.

Catch a competitor filling the gap first

A competitor's new launch into a gap you've spotted gets flagged automatically, showing exactly how much time is left to act on it.

Predict what a retailer will run next

Retailers repeat what worked to protect share, so what they ran last year is the strongest guide to what they'll run again, letting you plan trade spend ahead of the cycle.

Track what else was live in the category

Every other brand's promotion running in the category at the same time as your own, the piece you need before layering in your own sales data to explain what actually drove performance.

Prove the real impact on category sales

Layer promotional overlap against your own volumetric data, like EPOS or Circana, to measure whether it grew the category or cannibalised it.

Flag clashes before they cost the category

Evidence for how promotions across the category interact, so a clash between two brands' offers can be flagged and avoided before it costs the category revenue.

Flag new launches daily

Every new SKU from every brand in the category, flagged the day it lands.

Catch delistings early

A product dropped from a retailer's range gets flagged as soon as it happens.

Keep the category picture up to date

Range changes across every retailer tracked automatically, so a range review or gap analysis is always built on the category as it is today.

React while there's still time to

A competitor's new launch or delisting reaches you the day it happens, so you can respond, or move into the gap they've left, while the next listing decision is still open.

Answer the range review questions before they're asked.

A retailer will ask where your range sits on price, how it compares to competitors, and what's changed since the last review. Walking in with the answer already prepared changes the conversation.

  • Price positioning, by SKU. Exactly where every product sits on the price ladder, yours and competitors'.
  • Range compared, retailer by retailer. How your assortment differs from one retailer to the next.
  • Every change tracked. A new listing, a delisting or a price move, visible as it happens.

Spot a category gap before a competitor does.

A missing price point, pack size or format is easy to miss from inside your own range. Mapping the whole category makes it visible, and checking it against every retailer you track shows whether it's a genuine gap or already filled somewhere else.

  • For the retailer. Incremental category sales, filling a gap instead of just moving share between existing SKUs.
  • For you. A growth recommendation to bring to the table.
  • For the business. A validated gap to brief into NPD, ahead of the competition.

Flag a clash before it costs the category.

A promotion that overlaps with a competitor's can cancel it out, while well-spaced activity tends to compound. Flagging that pattern, backed by evidence of what actually happened last time, is what earns trust as an impartial category partner.

  • Retailer patterns forecast. Plan trade spend around what a retailer has repeated year on year.
  • Cross-brand overlap tracked. Every promotion live in the category at the same time as your own.
  • Layered with volumetric. Prove whether an overlap grew the category or cannibalised it, using your own EPOS or Circana data.

Never get caught off guard by a competitor's move.

A competitor launches, or gets delisted, and if the retailer brings it up before you do, that's a credibility problem in the room. Every new product and every delisting across the category reaches your team the moment it happens.

  • New launches, day one. Every new SKU from every brand, before it becomes news in a retailer meeting.
  • Delistings, caught immediately. A gap opens the moment a product drops, giving you a head start on it.
  • Nothing slips through. Every retailer, every brand, covered, so a competitor move never reaches you secondhand.

Range review, whitespace, promotion trends and assortment changes all come from the same category view, so the case you build for one retailer holds up everywhere else too.

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Onboard with Brand Nudge
From live walkthrough to daily insight
Experience the platform with insight from your category, define your scope, then go live in weeks, with specialists supporting you every day.
Step 01
Live platform walkthrough
We show you the platform using real insight from your own category, retailers and competitors. Try it out before any commitment.
Your data Your retailers Your challenges, answered
Step 02
Select your scope
Choose the markets, retailers and competitor sets you want to track.
Markets Retailers Competitors Custom groups
Step 03
Onboard and access insights
Average onboarding is two to three weeks. From day one your dashboards are ready, with hands-on support from FMCG specialists for ongoing training.
2-3 week onboarding Daily support In-person training
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In-house data science
Every data point is checked by our own in-house team
An in-house data science team runs continuous quality control, catching errors and duplication before they reach your dashboard. When a retailer changes its site or an EAN changes unexpectedly, we fix it directly, ourselves.
Continuous quality control Error and duplicate detection Owned and run in-house Faster fixes when retailers change
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See it for your category. Your retailers.
Your competitors.

A 30-minute walkthrough on your brands, your retailers, your market. Live insight in the Brand Nudge platform, no generic sales deck.

Confidently shape retail assortment and promotional plans with reliable retail data
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