We aim to help shift Japan's course towards a brighter future -- economically, as a society and as individuals -- by illuminating the true cost of gender inequality. To tackle the issue Unilever has partnered with Ipsos to conduct quantitative research to try and identify the issues that Japanese women deem most relevant to themselves and seek support for. This understanding is felt to be key to providing meaningful support to women, as well as enabling brands to connect with consumers with messaging that resonates.
Typically, consumer flavour testing is conducted using a structured questionnaire. In general, Asian consumers tend to be relatively reserved and polite in their responses in some countries. We therefore collaborated in a neuro-physiological study making use of EEG, heart rate, and skin conductance, to evaluate consumers' flavour preferences more objectively for flavour development. The study was conducted among female consumers in Jakarta and physiological measurement has helped to reveal the underlying emotional responses of the consumers for two of the most preferred test flavours. This research demonstrates that we can further sensitively measure how different flavours elicit different emotions, providing further insights on how to optimise flavours to maximise consumer preference.
The general objective of this study is to analyze shopper's behaviour during their purchase intention processes at the retail outlet for the hair care category, specifically shampoo, and provide ELVIVEs brand with relevant information to work on their marketing strategy. A sample composed of 40 female participants within one supermarket store was analyzed and the eye-tracking method was used to analyze their visual attention to different visual stimuli at a retail outlet. The results indicate that the more visual attention the consumer has to a specific shampoo brand, the greater their intention to purchase will be. Likewise, the more the consumer looks at the price of a shampoo brand, the greater their intention to purchase will be. However, not enough evidence has been found to affirm that the more visual attention paid by the consumer to the advertising of a specific shampoo at the retail outlet, the greater their intention to purchase will be.
This paper describes how we developed a framework from cultural insight to help our marketers and our creative agencies avoid stereotypes and represent gender more progressively in our brand communications. The paper will also explain how we delivered this insight differently into the business and some of the impact to date.
This paper focuses on women's representation in advertising from a business measurement perspective and how it can impact advertising performance. Most importantly, it invites the industry to join efforts, creating solutions to make advertising more inclusive, giving voice to groups that today are being selected silences and inspiring society with a diverse view of humanity, improving therefore these groups' presence and the way they are portrayed in advertising.
In the case of the present study, introducing an intercultural way of working unveiled pre-existing dynamics that reproduced the dichotomy of us versus them, notably within gender roles. For this reason, and recognising our own feminine perspective on this business case, we chose to bring gender as one of the characteristics that, within the work that was performed at Vitamix, explain the changes that an intercultural approach brought ti the glocalizing process of the company.
Gender inequality is a global issue, and of particular concern in Cambodia, but by how much? And how are gender dynamics changing, if at all, among younger cohorts? This study investigates the current state of gender dynamics in Cambodia, especially topical given the country's current transformation from a low to middle income society. How will Cambodia progress as a nation when half its population is not empowered? There is a need to reshape traditional gender roles if Cambodia would like to harness the power and impact of its total population. The results offer both specific and broad implications for how Cambodia as a country can leverage the findings, as well as how other countries can apply the learnings, especially as it relates to the growing influence and power of the Internet.