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Competition Watch Reports in China for a Travel Retailer

Client profile

Our client is a travel retailer of luxury products with a global network consisting of mover 420 locations extending across 4 continents and 13 countries. Over recent years, despite the pandemic significantly impacting the global travel retail market, the company has demonstrated notable expansions worldwide.

Objective

Aiming to be a definite leader in the market, the client reached out to Daxue Consulting in support of producing 2 ‘Competition Watch’ reports per month for 12 months (24 reports in total: 12 per market), monitoring up to ~5-6 key competitors per market in Mainland China and Hong Kong/Macau.

Research process & methodology

Our reports were focused on the best practices of clients’ key competitors in terms of promotional strategy, and we divided our work into 4 steps:

Step 1: High-level analysis of market insights and news per month

Step 2: Competition Overview

Step 3: Social media performance and consumer sentiment analysis

Step 4: Best practices and actionable recommendations for the client

We started with extensive research of relevant industry news, competitors’ websites, white papers, blogs/forums and e-commerce platforms. We also organized a kick-off meeting with the clients’ consumer insights team to confirm the selected competitors for the review.

Our competition overview was divided into 4 pillars:

  1. Brand-driven promotional activities
  2. Retail-driven activities
  3. Discount-driven activities
  4. Social performance

We used social listening tools to determine social performance, including:

  • followers growth
  • engagement
  • share of voice
  • customer sentiment
  • brand image of key players

This approach helped us better understand competitors’ brand awareness and reputation among consumers.

After the collection of data in previous steps, we compiled strategic directions based on identified best practices to optimize clients’ promotional strategy.

Outcome

Each month we delivered 2 competitor watch reports (a total of 24 reports), including:

  • Executive summary, so that the client could efficiently comprehend the conclusions, highlights of key competitors’ actions, the macro view of the retail market news and top trends of each month
  • In-depth report including case studies of best practices, best campaigns and a calendar view of competitors’ monthly marketing activities
  • Recommendations for strategy optimization