[November 07, 2018]

New IRI Report Offers a Treatment Plan to Take Advantage of $450 Billion Self-Care Market

Eating organic food, using natural home remedies, taking vitamins and disinfecting homes are just a few ways in which consumers are taking control of their own health and getting a handle on rising health care costs. With 88 percent of Americans actively practicing self-care and 34 percent increasing their self-care activities in the last year, these new purchasing and consumption habits are creating big opportunities for brands and retailers alike. The latest IRI^® Point of View, "Taking Charge: Consumers Grabbing Hold of Their Health and Wellness Drives $450 Billion Opportunity," shares how consumer trends are currently impacting the CPG industry and what retailers and manufacturers need to do to win in this market. To bring much-needed clarity to this very complex environment, IRI is also introducing a newly updated Self-Care Segmentation to help marketers develop personalized products and marketing campaigns.

"Self-care is not one large action or behavior, but a series of small, incremental actions and behaviors that accumulate to result in better health and wellness," said Amruta Gupta, principal and health care leader for the IRI Consumer and Shopper Marketing practice. "To truly maximize the self-care opportunity, brands and retailers must think outside of traditional and narrowly defined categories and redefine their competitive sets to better understand where and how each product fits in their stores and strategy."

Self-care is virtually everywhere; however, different shopper cohorts practice self-care differently. Brands and retailers must understand the dynamics of each and tailor product benefits and marketing programs to engage and activate different shopper groups.

To help brands and retailers increase sales and share of wallet, IRI developed an extensive Self-Care Segmention. Marketers can easily identify and understand the attitudes and behaviors of high-value, high-opportunity shoppers and develop personalized strategies that will influence the path to purchase by addressing such key questions as:

• How is my brand's competitive set changing due to self-care behavior, and what's the best way to protect and grow share?
• What messaging will best resonate with high-potential consumers of my brand, and how can I make real-time adjustments that will enhance sales lift?
• Which self-care segments skew toward my retail banner, and do my shoppers have a propensity for proactive or reactive self-care? How does this compareto my competitors?

• Proactive Naturalists: Motivated by keeping fit and preventing illness
• Active Health Managers: Focused on limiting health care expenses and avoiding doctor visits
• Awakened and Dedicated: Seeking a balanced life and more energy.
• Unconcerned Realists: No distinctive health and wellness motivation - simply taking life as it comes
• Healthy Passives: No motivation to adopt self-care behaviors - healthy and haven't had to deal with anything too serious
• Preventive Moderates: No distinctive self-care motivation; simply want to prevent illness and stay fit and healthy, and are open to vitamins or supplements and prescription medications, as needed
• Advice Seekers: Managing a health condition and seeking constant reassurance from health professionals
• Doctor, Doctor!: Dealing with health conditions, but trying to stay healthy while aging, through medications and guidance from health professionals

Identifying and understanding the attitudes and behaviors of high-value, high-opportunity shoppers is the first step in leveraging the self-care trend to drive growth, Without activation, however, the sales needle will not move. IRI has linked the Self-Care Segmentation to actual purchase behavior mined from a dataset of 350 million shopper loyalty cards to help brands and retailers customize marketing programs for their most valuable consumers.

"Personalization is not just an option here - it's key to survival," added Gupta. "CPG marketers and retailers must understand existing and evolving trends and remain a partner in self-care by offering solutions that meet the current and future needs of their consumers."

For more information on Self-Care, register here for the free IRI webinar, "Winning with Wellness: How Brands and Retailers Can Unlock Healthy Growth," on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018.

About the Report

"Taking Charge: Consumers Grabbing Hold of Their Health and Wellness Drives $450 Billion Opportunity," is a free report available from IRI. To download the report, visit https://www.iriworldwide.com/en-us/Insights/Publications/Self-care-Trends.

About the IRI Partner Ecosystem

IRI fundamentally believes that delivering differentiated growth for clients requires deep, highly integrated partnering with a variety of best-of-breed companies. With this in mind, IRI works closely with a broad range of industry leaders across multiple industries and sectors to create innovative joint solutions, services and access to capabilities to help its clients more effectively collaborate and compete in their various markets and exceed their growth objectives. IRI is committed to its partnership philosophy and continues to actively enhance its open ecosystem of partners through alliances, joint ventures, acquisitions and affiliations. The IRI Partner Ecosystem includes such leading companies as 84.51°, Adobe, The Boston Consulting Group, Clavis Insights, comScore, Data Plus Math, Edison, Experian, GfK, Gigwalk, Google (News - Alert), Ipsos, Jumpshot, Mastercard Advisors, MaxPoint, Omnicom, One Click Retail, Oracle, Pinterest, Research Now/SSI, Simulmedia, SPINS, Univision, Viant, Yieldbot and others.

About IRI

IRI is a leading provider of big data, predictive analytics and forward-looking insights that help CPG, OTC health care organizations, retailers, financial service providers and media companies grow their businesses. A confluence of major external events - a change in consumer buying habits, big data coming into its own, advanced analytics and personalized consumer activation - is leading to a seismic shift in drivers of success in all industries. With the largest repository of purchase, media, social, causal and loyalty data, all integrated into an on-demand, cloud-based technology platform, IRI is empowering the personalization revolution and helping to guide its more than 5,000 clients around the world in their quests to remain relentlessly relevant, capture market share, connect with consumers, collaborate with key constituents and deliver market-leading growth. For more information, visit www.iriworldwide.com.

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