Givaudan is a global leader in fragrance & beauty and taste & wellbeing, providing taste and ingredient innovation across various food and beverage categories.

The Givaudan Marketing and Consumer Insights teams are the vanguard of innovation at Givaudan. By keeping their finger on the pulse of consumer trends, these teams are responsible for identifying the next food & beverage flavors, colors, experiences, and more that consumers will love – and sharing them with their clients and the broader market. Within the scope of their work, the Marketing and Insights teams use consumer insights to answer customer briefs, as well as create market-leading trend reports that influence the wider industry.

To retain their position as thought and innovation leaders committed to providing the best solutions to both their customers and the market, the Marketing and Consumer Insights teams need access to the most up-to-date information possible. In a rapidly changing market, this is made complicated as consumer preferences, tastes, and expectations constantly evolve. How did Givaudan tackle these challenges to successfully answer customer briefs — and provide market thought leadership?

The Challenge

The Givaudan Marketing and Consumer Insights team needed to:

• Spot new flavor trends to include in customer pitches and track the evolution of flavor trends.
• Reach unique insights early that won’t be available on other sources.
• Increase customer project inflow and project wins.

The Solution

Using Tastewise’s platform the team could:

• Actively pitch customers with campaign ideas based on real-time flavor trends, new flavor combinations and relevant consumer motivations.
• Answer customer briefs with a unique perspective, knowledge and inspiring insights while increasing win rates.
• Have a competitive advantage and being first in the market with the right trends.
• Utilize social media insights in every 2nd research project.

The Impact

10X faster time to pitch

The Givaudan Marketing & Consumer Insights team was able to save a significant amount of time on research and reach relevant insights 10 times faster.

3X more briefs answered

The Givaudan Marketing & Consumer Insights team was able to work on over 100 projects with customers over the past year. Every 2nd research project uses social media insights!

Increased project inflow and new wins

Thanks to a unique trend perspective and differentiating insights on consumer needs and emerging ingredients, the Givaudan Marketing & Consumer Insights team increased customer project inflow and delivered new winning solutions — resulting in additional business growth.

The Bottom Line

“We wanted to build perspective on colour trends – what does it mean to consumers in the context of food & bev categories, which colours are more popular in which product category, what are the consumer motivations and what are the ingredients trends linked to colour. Tastewise can track colour trends in social discussions, and this gives us a unique view on the latest insights on colour trends in food & beverages”.

Tatiana Luschen, Consumer Sensory Insights Manager Innovation & Foresight Europe, Taste & Wellbeing

“Tastewise is the only system that actually allows us to gauge where a flavor is in terms of its evolution cycle.”

Martinique Buys, Marketing Director UK & Ireland, Taste & Wellbeing

“Recently I was looking for ‘Diet’ trends — just checking what was happening in this field — and Tastewise gave me a clear answer in 2 clicks, which is much faster than anything else”.

Laurence Minisini, Consumer Market Insights Manager Europe, Taste & Wellbeing