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Key benefits: Improved strategy in the country by concentrating on the most promising segments and client types. Since the study, the customer’s engine and spare parts sales have been increasing annually on average by 40% and 70%, respectively.
Key benefits: Ability to make an informed decision on whether to organize the production of two chemical by-products or to invest in in-house utilization facilities
Key benefits: Project produced insight that was a key input in generating the client’s local marketing strategy and action plan for product launch
Key benefits: Client was able to plan a specific competitive strategy and product portfolio for each market region
Key benefits: Insight to the warehousing market, including competitive situation, which helped in assessing the market’s investment potential
Key benefits: Enhanced ability to assess future growth of certain chemical product areas, and to plan future business through understanding of business cycles in the industry
Key benefits: Better understanding of the future threats and opportunities in the insurance market
Key benefits: Client identified key areas for future investments and focus areas as well as leading key accounts for their product portfolio
Key benefits: Actionable intelligence to support entry into Chinese market, with the ability to devise an effective competitive strategy in the new market
Key benefits: Ability to make informed decision on restructuring supply-chain operations in the region
Key benefits: Growth forecasts and trends affecting growth in
each target market, and distribution models of competing companies.
Key benefits: Ability to undertake a proactive strategy to combat new threats in the home market
Key benefits: Improved understanding of market dynamics as well as identification of attractive M&A targets
Key benefits: Enabled the customer to accurately estimate the attractiveness of the market including the level of competition
Key benefits: Received in-depth analysis to help make a re-entry decision, reposition business to target the most potential industries, and gain more market share from existing and new target markets
Key benefits: Ability to target R&D and sales approaches to relevant segments within the electronics value chain and to formulate business strategy based on segment attractiveness analysis
Key benefits: Roadmap for moving from being a basic supplier to becoming a value-add solution provider by better understanding the size and growth of the wastewater treatment market in Brazil
Key benefits: Ability to make informed investments based on market potential and development estimates in application segments, and to decide on market entry mode based on in-depth information of regulatory issues
Key benefits: Advice on high potential customer industry segments and pointers on market expansion strategies, including tactical sales initiatives and partnerships
Key benefits: Prioritized chemical products and applications industries with greatest long-term opportunities in India and China
Key benefits: Realized greater sales volumes across product segments and saved on distribution costs
Key benefits: Received a rapid and objective evaluation of sustainability of target company’s growth. Gained in-depth understanding of market environment and potential impact on target company. Received strategic pointers on viable growth options and strategies.
Key benefits: Understanding on the target company’s performance and sustainable competitive advantages, coupled with strategic pointers on changes/options for the company to secure medium-term growth, including merging with an established manufacturer
Key benefits: Received an objective evaluation of sustainability of target companies and their businesses leading to improved understanding of market environment and possibilities provided by acquisitions
Key benefits: Rapid benchmarking of most recent assortment selection decisions and marketing parameters of the acquisition target and its local competitors
Key benefits: Received a complete and quarterly updated list of relevant target companies and gained competitive advantage over other PE companies when targeting this attractive segment
Key benefits: Receiving the market due diligence report within only six weeks, enabled the client to react very quickly to an upcoming opportunity
Key benefits: Objective and insightful information about suppliers, service options and price levels
Key benefits: Exclusive details for the negotiation discussions with the target’s management in addition to understanding the background, roles and responsibilities of target persons
Key benefits: Received highly strategic information on a niche market to help revise existing business plans
Key benefits: Ability to make informed investment based on market potential and development estimates , and to formulate business strategy based on attractiveness analysis
Key benefits: Ability to make informed investment decisions based on ROI. Formulate effective sales implementation strategy based on optimal efficiencies and ROI.
Key benefits: Ability to identify competitor behavior and strategies. Ability to develop robust business strategies based on market and competitive insight.
Key benefits: Quantified market value and market share opportunity. Identified new brand positioning and channel strategy taking into account competitors’ activity.
Key benefits: Detailed understanding of each of the home shopping market segments. Ability to kick start expansion initiatives by focusing on the largest and highest potential market segment.
Key benefits: In-depth understanding on the market size, available products and leading Chinese manufacturers. Ability to position a new product to target the highest potential customer and product segments.
Key benefits: Client was able to create a credible value proposition to attract an appropriate tenant mix
Key benefits: Improved extranet design, knowledge sharing and responsiveness. Reduced duplication of information and ad hoc requests. Improved internal customer experiences.
Key benefits: Strategic insight into competitor supply chains, detailing how sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, and related process are organised
Key benefits: Gained clear insight into four new growth markets. New ideas generated for future portfolio growth. Received an evaluation of new investment opportunities.
Key benefits: Based on the assessment the PE invested in part of the company
Key benefits: Key information on potential partners analyzed and selected by a local analyst
Key benefits: Client gained 3rd party opinion of market opportunity, as well as insights on market growth dynamics, customer needs, strengths and weakness relative to competitors, and a series of recommendations pertaining to expansion strategy.
Key benefits: Client gained 3rd party opinion on the attractiveness of the target, its current standing in the marketplace relative to competitors, and its growth potential. Client decided to not pursue the investment in the target company directly as a result of these findings.
Key benefits: Customer gained hard statistical facts on imports, exports, and transportation regarding their key markets
Key benefits: Customer gained a comprehensive understanding on a selected chemical compound market in India, and learned the key success factors for gaining significant market share on the Indian market
Key benefits: Thorough understanding on SMC materials usage in automotive applications, their manufacturing processes, and key players in the field
Key benefits: Insight into recent shifts in strategies derived by probing local language papers and other media
Key benefits: Identification of key players and their strengths and weaknesses coupled with a comparison of markets in terms of consolidation and development of each market
Key benefits: Enabled the customer to base decisions on how to approach the target markets on statistical facts
Key benefits: Comprehensive view on the industry players, both from the perspective of suitable acquisition candidates and key competitive threats
Key benefits: Gained insight into bancassurance opportunities and understood the capability and suitability of insurance companies as bancassurance partners
Key benefits: Client received a very detailed breakdown of costs in a form that they then used for tactical planning purposes
Key benefits: The client was able to make informed decisions on marketing and merchant acquisition strategy, based on the information and analysis we provided
Key benefits: Quantified market opportunity for US investment products and defined long and short-term strategy to achieve greater market share of the online trading business
Key benefits: Quantification of market opportunities enabled the client to focus its resources on the highest potential equipment segments and end-user segments, and set appropriate pricing
Key benefits: Client successfully entered and became one of the top players in the selected East Asia markets and is capturing market share from existing competitors
Key benefits: Gained a detailed understanding of the competitor's production capabilities, volumes and sales strategy, supported by documented evidence allowing the customer to fine-tune its own marketing strategy taking into account the likely competitive entry into key markets around the globe
Key benefits: Understanding the potential to increase profitability through a new channel concept and the market segments which held greatest opportunities led to a clear channel development strategy, including selection of target segments, marketing mix and retail outlet infrastructure.
Key benefits: The client learnt how to maximize its product strengths and minimize its product weaknesses against local competitors which led to achieving greater competitiveness and sales success
Key benefits: Updated sales strategy based on validated information on market dynamics, and investment target recommendations regarding expanding the client’s business into a new area of logistics and warehousing services
Key benefits: Based on identifying the real decision makers and their key reasons to selecting cargo ports in and out of China priority actions to maximize the use of certain Chinese ports were decided
Key benefits: Quantified market opportunities by segments combined with practical advice on reaching the market potential and creating a competitive strategy
Key benefits: The client gained a better understanding of rheumatoid arthritis patients
Key benefits: Enabled market share increase by quantifying the size of greatest opportunity customer and channel segments
Key benefits: The client gained a better understanding of the elastic bandages costs at major hospitals
Key benefits: Clients received a comprehensive understanding of their strengths and weaknesses against other programmers and thus were able to improve relationships with pay-TV operator partners throughout the region
Key benefits: Client was able to gauge the target segment TV advertising market, understand market dynamics and estimate its future market share in addition to receiving a clear road-map to develop a new advertising business model and improve its revenue and market awareness across Asia-Pacific
Key benefits: Analysis enabled the client to prioritize market segment opportunities, plan the introduction of existing products in new markets, and focus on selected companies as potential partners
Key benefits: The client received a strategic roadmap specifying segments to expand into over an eight-year timeframe and was able to reposition and focus market communications on topics and issues of most interest to potential exhibitors and visitors
Key benefits: An objective competitive analysis of the target company and its main peers in the region gave sufficient insight to make the decision to acquire the target company and increased understanding of customer needs and attitudes
Key benefits: Based on an assessment of the relative merits of potential acquisition targets using both quantitative and qualitative measures of suitability and performance five companies were selected for an acquisition approach as part of the client’s Asian expansion program
Key benefits: Our client gained a comprehensive understanding of the target company and its profit engines, as well as advice on formulating a competitive strategy in the China market. The client was also able to make an informed decision on a possible acquisition of the target company.
Key benefits: Based on findings and recommendations presented, client’s management decided to start a strategic alliance with the partner introduced by GIA.
Key benefits: Gained insight on how Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians regulate approval of doctor´s offices, with focus on diabetology and differences in service accounting of diabetologists
Key benefits: Received information regarding viewer numbers of NBA and NFL in Italy and Spain
Key benefits: Received global actual market figures and market forecasts for different areas of the laser industry
Key benefits: Gained insight on the number of cash terminal users in various branches and cities at different times of the day
Key benefits: Received brief company profiles, including names, market shares and turnover development of the most important players at the express logistics market in selected Asian countries
Key benefits: Ability to make informed investment based on market potential and development estimates, and to formulate business strategy based on segment attractiveness analysis
Key benefits: Gained understanding on competitive landscape with regards to competing technologies and vendors in addition to strategic insight on competitive structure and emerging demand sectors
Key benefits: Unique understanding of the current state and outlook of the global P&C insurance market - insight that was a key input in the client’s strategic planning process
Key benefits: Ability to evaluate target companies for possible synergies based on understanding of their latest technological developments and patenting activity
Key benefits: Ability to formulate successful business strategy based on improved understanding of own market positioning, strengths and weaknesses
Key benefits: Client gained unique understanding of market size, distribution channels, competitors, and demand drivers – insight that was a key input in formulating the client’s corporate strategy
Key benefits: Comprehensive understanding of global energy sources and information to help customer create a technology strategy and act as input for research & development
Key benefits: Gained a better understanding of competitors’ flu vaccine products and sales and marketing strategies in China and Korea
Key benefits: Ability to identify most attractive market entry segments and recognize the most attractive customer prospects operating in these segments
Key benefits: Ability to plan post-acquisition business strategy based on comprehensive understanding on the supply chain dynamics and developments
Key benefits: Client was able to rise from 2nd position to 1st in the just less than a year from GIA starting to provide the service
Key benefits: Customer’s sales organization has up-to-date list of all ship-projects available, which enables participating in bidding contests and keeping sales force activity level high
Key benefits: Insights on mobile gaming industry and possible competitive scenarios
Key benefits: Customer got hard facts to base their decision on going forward with the venture
Key benefits:The customer gained a good understanding on the collaboration success between the two companies, with the main focus on operational and R&D strategy
Key benefits:The customer gained an understanding of what was the lead component used in its key competitor’s inhibitor coupled with relevant dosing regimen and dosing range/potency
Key benefits:The research allowed the customer to see the operational differences between large pharmaceuticals companies in Nordic countries and use this information as a benchmark when planning their own operational model for the region
Key benefits: Insight on competitors’ and suppliers’ plans and capabilities regarding the use of micropellet technology in the vaccines industry
Key benefits: The customer gained insights on relevant parties’ opinions and ideas on a planned road construction project. Overview was given of all the opponents and supporters of the project and their arguments. Also planned relevant projects in the area were collected.
Key benefits: The customer both understood the size of the environmental market in South Africa and gained clarity in terms of the future of the environmental market in the region. The customer also better understood its ability to compete in the market.
Key benefits: The customer understood competitors’ key strengths and weaknesses, as well as their opportunities and threats in the market and was able to utilize this insight in strategic planning, with a strong focus on company competitive advantage.
Key benefits: The customer understood competitors’ key strengths and weaknesses, as well as their opportunities and threats in the market and was able to utilize this insight in strategic planning, with a strong focus on company competitive advantage.
Key benefits: The customer’s sales executives gained concrete criteria for segmenting their current and prospective customers. As a result, they were able to plan their future actions for each of the key target companies and industry segments.
Key benefits: The customer gained an understanding of the penetrations of the two technologies in 24 countries and was able to use this information in its strategic product roadmap decisions
Key benefits: The customer gained actionable improvement concepts based on global benchmarking against the best-in-class service providers globally
Key benefits: The customer gained strategic insight to its relative competitiveness, and was able to use it in a strategic planning process and communication of its strategy
Key benefits: Client gained objective insight to existing and new market segments, and some interesting facts about market attractiveness, the Dutch market showing highest spend per capita on sports goods in Europe. Received practical recommendations for business expansion in this growth market.
Key benefits: The analysis allowed the client to focus its resources on customers with the highest return and identify potential partners/ acquisition targets
Key benefits: Recommendations and road-map allowed the client to plan for talent and internal/external resource development, media content prioritization across platforms, brand building, and explore new business opportunities with potential partners
Key benefits: Client is kept continuously up to date on relevant public discussion around themes that are key to their operation. Especial focus is given to weak signals that might give early warnings of new emerging trends and new directions in public opinion.
Key benefits: Client gained an understanding of gaming market opportunities in Japan, Korea and China, and used GIA’s recommendation to develop a new offering and growth strategy for Asia
Key benefits: Siemens utilized the intelligence gained and moved from a JV sales arrangement to direct and started targeting the correct decision-makers at different stages in the sales cycle. They also extended their service offering to include more spares and on-site servicing.
Key benefits: Improved understanding of market dynamics in China and Malaysia by having access to in-depth information only available in local languages
Key benefits: Client gains a monthly overview of raw material pricing developments, coupled with an analysis of possible trends in raw material price fluctuations. Client also gains a monthly macroeconomic overview as well as an analysis of their main competitor and supplier stock price fluctuations.
Key benefits: The Switch, leading supplier of megawatt-class permanent magnet generator and full-power converter packages for wind power and other new energy applications received high-value company and contact data to support their marketing and sales efforts.
Key benefits: Dedicated GIA analyst supported customer’s strategy process by doing secondary research and business analysis in customer premises
Key benefits: Client gains a quarterly overview and analysis of comments on the discussion boards and forums about the company’s financial status and stock price development over the last financial quarter as well as future outlook.
Key benefits: Ability to make an informed decision on investing in a new plant based on understanding the market potential in the region. Ability to choose the most efficient region for a plant based on information on demand distribution, raw materials sources and planned competitors projects