Are old people more brand loyal?
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Are old people more brand loyal?

My friend Benjamin Cawthray at Kantar wondered about this. So he checked Kantar’s panel of ~30,000 UK households across ten category-leading grocery brands.  

One measure of brand loyalty (lord I hate that term) is ‘share of wallet’ (SoW): f’rinstance, what percent of a household’s bottled water purchases go to a single brand, like Evian (the category leader)?

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Does any car brand buck the Law of the Demand Curve?
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Does any car brand buck the Law of the Demand Curve?

Like, can you have a high-priced car that’s also a high-volume car?

It’s one of the oldest truisms in business: if you raise your prices, demand (and thus volume) should go down. It’s the ‘Demand Curve’. Augustin Cournot described it in 1838.

But in these ‘unprecedented times’, does it hold up? Why yes, it holds up remarkably well.

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How hard is it to buck demand curves?
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How hard is it to buck demand curves?

Like, can you have a high-priced product that’s also a high-volume product?

It’s one of the oldest truisms in business: if you raise your prices, demand (and thus volume) should go down. It’s the ‘Demand Curve’. Augustin Cournot described the relationship in 1838 (20 years before the invention of the oil well).

But now that we have zillabits of data, does it hold up? Why yes, it holds up remarkably well.

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