7 Secret insights about Pet Parents
Pet Owners: Secret Insights of pet parents in India Sherlock AI embarks on a cute mission this time. It identifies people who have pets in Mumbai & Pune and understands
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Five FMCG Companies Leveraging The Power of AI
The Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry is always looking at maintaining profitability in a market which is very competitive when it comes to pricing. The industry moved to digital media, not as a result of innovation but in a bid to survive. Their next course is the use of Artificial Intelligence as AI steps in to help the marketers of these goods evaluate the supply chain and to find areas wherein costs can be further reduced and it also also help in enhancing productivity.
Hindustan Unilever
HUL seeks to get details like who visited the grocery store over the last three months and what product they may buy on their next visit using AI software Jarvis. Spread across 600,000 villages and 10 million outlets, general trade will continue to remain big in the next 10 years, HUL said in a presentation on its website on 6 June where it outlined Project Maxima, which is focused on precision marketing at scale. Under this project, HUL has achieved targeted marketing within a range of 100m of a grocery shop. The company can geofence this for distributed marketing and offering. The Indian arm of Unilever Plc will use predictive analytics, cloud technology, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence to achieve this.
AI Palette
World’s first AI platform for FMCG Product Innovation, AI Palette creates product concepts which are in tandem with the personality of the brand and also its current product portfolio. This is achieved by gathering insights from digital conversations and clubbing them with company data to address the unfulfilled needs of consumers.
Marico Ltd
Marico is banking on automation, AI and ML to grow not only its own business but also that of its distributors. Automation has helped their distributors reduce the inventory days from around 4-5 to just a day.They have also been able to lower the sales staff strength to 20 and no longer feel the need for having data entry operators. Marico also uses AI to seek patterns and predict behaviours. Moreover, their exclusive launches with e-commerce portals enable the “predictive and prescriptive analytics” task by using the real-time insights provided by online companies
Nestle
Nestle has been on the top of its AI game, especially with the introduction of a new tool called ‘Cookie Coach’, a virtual bot launched by Nestle USA which answers queries about their Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe. Ruth, the AI-powered coach is in fact a multimodal virtual assistant using autonomous animation.
Colgate-Palmolive
The Colgate Smart Electric Toothbrush E1 is equipped with Artificial Intelligence and pairs with Apple’s ResearchKit to crowdsource toothbrushing data for better and faster innovation, according to the company. This brush has been designed with the help of dentists, and contains real-time sensors and AI algorithms to detect the effectiveness of brushing in 16 zones of the human mouth.
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7 mind-boggling insights from Consumer Electronics Store footfalls
What is the brand which comes to people's mind when they think about purchasing consumer electronics- is it Reliance Digital Retail Ltd.? Has Xiaomi Technology finally positioned itself as a premium brand? What is common between multi-brand electronic retailers and the people who visit them? What is consumer mindset of someone who wants to purchase consumer electronics and what other places these people go to and what are their brand affinities like?
Sherlock AI (powered by Infinite Analytics) looks into all the people who visited consumer electronics stores in the month of October and connects the dots. Take a 3 minute journey and understand consumer mindset of electronics buyers analytically!
Gold: Dhanteras Dhamaka leading to 125% footfall surge
Did you know that jewelry stores’ visitation went up by 125% during the Dhanteras weekend? Sherlock AI analyzed all consumers who visited jewelry stores pan-India and revealed that though typical weekend footfall surges in Jewelry shops is around 16%, the Dhanteras weekend contributed to a whopping 125% surge! WHOA!
Indians have always preferred gold as an asset class and an investment vehicle. With Dhanteras being among the most auspicious occasions to buy gold, Indians did indeed flock to the ‘market’ to buy gold.
