Mars Inc. is a multi-billion-dollar global company that owns over 50 brands across petcare, snacking, food & nutrition.
Before finding Knit, Cassie Jackson, Regional Manager of Insights at Mars Wrigley, often had to jump between several vendors to get deep qual and quant insights for decision-makers.
After going live with Knit, Cassie was able to get qual and quant insights in a single study. Projects that used to take her team 4-6 weeks now wrapped in a matter of days.
“For us to be able to get that level of quality at the speed we did with Knit has been huge.”
Mars Wrigley owns a diverse set of products across dozens of categories. It’s the manufacturer behind America’s most beloved brands, from M&Ms and LifeSavers to Starburst and Skittles.
Cassie Jackson, Regional Manager of Insights at Mars Wrigley, spearheads research and insights for its confectionary brands.
Before discovering Knit, getting qualitative and quantitative insights required multiple surveys – often across different vendors, which takes extra time and resources.
“We would do a quant piece with one vendor and a qual piece with another vendor,” Cassie said. “Then, we’d have to parse through the data ourselves.”
In 2023, Mars Wrigley started searching for a new market research platform to help drive some efficiencies.
“We wanted a single source of truth to work off of,” said Cassie.
When she found Knit, Cassie knew the platform’s ability to run qual and quant in a single study would be a game changer. She also appreciated that the Knit platform expedited and automated research end-to-end, from survey generation through reporting.
“Having everything bundled was the solution we had been looking for.”
A big part of Cassie’s role is presenting findings to stakeholders across the organization. Since switching to Knit, she hasn’t had to spend time sifting through the data herself searching for a story, or trying to bring definition to disparate insights.
Instead, Knit’s AI autogenerates reports that integrate qual and quant insights into a cohesive narrative.
“Knit gives us that clear, concise story and brings in the voice of the consumer.”
Since going live with Knit, the organization has run well over a dozen research projects. Recently, Cassie and her team completed a project assessing consumer perceptions of seasonal shapes for chocolate and the role of fruity confections in key seasons (like Easter, Christmas/holidays).
To get a better understanding of consumer perceptions around seasonal shapes for confections, Mars Wrigley asked respondents to:
Mars Wrigley had a complete analysis report in their inbox within a week. This was a significant shift for the insights team.
“If we had run them through a different partner who was full-service, it would have likely taken a month to six weeks,” said Cassie. “We’re always looking to be as agile as possible.”
“For us to be able to get that level of quality at such a speed has been huge,” she added.
For Cassie, Knit didn’t just save her team time. It gave her the bandwidth to execute significantly more research per month and per quarter, so the organization can demystify consumer behavior and make business decisions with confidence.
“We work with a lot of DIY platforms,” said Cassie. “There are pros and cons. But we often find ourselves knee-deep in those results and digging through verbatims and videos ourselves.”
Now, Cassie can trust Knit’s AI – along with her dedicated Knit researcher – will surface the most impactful insights for her.
“With Knit, we could do our job more efficiently and get to those key learnings and insights a lot quicker than we might’ve been able to on other platforms,” she added. “Being able to ask the AI to look into findings for us or generate another slide automatically – the time savings is huge compared to other platforms we use.”
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Make the decision to innovate in the seasonal shapes category
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