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Retail

Plan-it has extensive experience in retail, including the toy category and consumer electronics (in addition to food/beverage and fashion noted in specific categories). In helping develop new toy/game concepts, we’ve worked with child, teen and parent audiences to drive optimal product development. In consumer electronics, we’ve done extensive work in understanding and optimizing the shopping experience and developing relevant products for our clients. Techniques have included product usage workshops & exploratory groups, ideation sessions, in-store shop-alongs and ethnographic assessment, among others.
  • Posted in: Brand Positioning & Development, Brand Tracking/Monitoring, Fashion, Retail, Tracking Communications

    Nautica

    Challenge: Nautica was interested in updating and modernizing the Nautica brand. Objective: Plan-it partnered with Nautica to determine the overall effectiveness in the marketplace of a new branding effort, designed to reinvigorate the brand. Solution: To track brand attitudes over time, Plan-it conducted a two-phase study; a pre-wave prior to advertising ...

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  • Posted in: Communication, Creative Development, Fashion, Retail

    Wrangler

    Challenge: The Wrangler brand was trying to evolve and reposition itself in the marketplace, beyond its “cowboy” heritage. Objective: Evaluate new creative developed by Toth in terms of its relevance, credibility, the perceived image of the Wrangler brand, as well as understand the relevance of key spokespeople, Brett Favre and Dale Earnhardt. ...

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  • Posted in: Communication, Fashion, International, Retail

    Timberland

    Challenge: Within an environment of somewhat varied brand perceptions across the culturally-diverse European market, Timberland wanted to determine which of two distinct brand campaigns most effectively communicated the brand’s core values and connected to the target audience in the European market. One campaign was developed for Europe and the other was ...

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