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			<h1 style="margin-top:0px;">EXPLORER delivers penetrating shopper insights & powerful strategies</h1>
        
		
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                    <div class="wp"><h2 style="text-align: left"><em><span style="color: rgb(0,51,102)">EXPLORER</span></em> helps our clients create winning solutions&nbsp;for their brand, the shopper and the retailer</h2>
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<h3><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)"><strong>INSIGHTS</strong></span></h3>
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    <li>Create&nbsp;the&nbsp;building blocks for the development of&nbsp;Shopper Marketing Strategies&nbsp;&amp; Solutions&nbsp;</li>
    <li>Crystallize the best ways to optimize planograms, assortment, merchandising and promotional strategies</li>
    <li>Quantify new products&nbsp;or&nbsp;shopper marketing programming so all stakeholders (Sales, Marketing, Retailer) are confident of their potential</li>
    <li>Validate&nbsp;program execution (shopper likes+dislikes/retailer delivery) to&nbsp;maximize&nbsp;success</li>
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<h3><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)"><strong>STRATEGY</strong></span></h3>
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    <li>Combines insights with&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0,51,102)"><em><strong>EXPLORER'S</strong></em></span> industry expertise (Research, Retail, Sales, Marketing)&nbsp;to create&nbsp;powerful solutions that <strong><em>&quot;work&quot;</em></strong>&nbsp;</li>
    <li>Act as a key strategic Shopper Insight resource to assist&nbsp;clients&nbsp;Shopper Marketing/Category Management efforts</li>
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<h3><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)"><strong>SOLUTIONS</strong></span></h3>
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    <li>Works with agencies to bring shopper insights to life through joint planning/brainstorming</li>
    <li>Provides unbiased assessment on strategy/retail marketing activity using&nbsp;our comprehensive suite of analytic tools and shopper norms</li>
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