BrandSpark International

How We Work With Brands

Four connected research practices, one rigorous foundation. Brand health tracking, concept and product testing, brand trust research, and strategic consulting — across CPG, high-involvement product categories, services, and powersports.

What We Deliver

Each engagement is custom-built. The list below is the menu we draw from — most programs combine elements across two or three of these practices, with brand trust context woven through where it sharpens the read.

Brand Health Tracking

  • Longitudinal brand equity trackers
  • Awareness, consideration, preference, and NPS
  • Segmented tracking by customer cohort
  • Campaign pre, mid, and post measurement
  • Competitive benchmarking over time
  • Trust metrics integrated alongside standard equity measures

Concept and Product Testing

  • Package design evaluation
  • New product concept testing
  • Communication optimization and claims testing
  • Price sensitivity via PSM, Van Westendorp, and conjoint
  • Innovation pipeline prioritization
  • Positioning territory identification

Brand Trust Research

  • Trust Share measurement, unaided and category-level
  • Trust Resilience assessment
  • Trust Driver analysis, ranked by Trust Share and Resilience impact
  • Hierarchy of Trust™ positioning audit
  • Competitive trust landscape mapping
  • Trust quadrant positioning: Dominant, Fortified, Vulnerable, or Precarious

Strategic Research and Consulting

  • Foundational category understanding
  • Segmentation studies
  • Market opportunity sizing
  • Shopper and path-to-purchase research
  • Dealer and B2B research
  • Strategic consulting and advisory
  • Board-ready synthesis and recommendations

Where We Have Depth

Decades of category norms across the sectors we know best. Continuous measurement gives clients a benchmark no ad-hoc study can match.

CPG

Food and beverage, household care, personal care, health and beauty. Long-term tracking norms across hundreds of categories and a continuous read on innovation activity through the BNPA program.

Services

Financial services, telecom, retail, hospitality, e-commerce. Trust-led research that maps how service brands earn and lose credibility against scaled and specialist competitors.

Powersports and Durables

Marine, ATV, fishing, outdoor, and major appliances. Categories where heritage, dealer networks, and resilience matter as much as broad share.

High-Involvement Categories

Premium consumer goods, durables, and considered-purchase categories. Heritage, reputation, and trust drive selection more than promotion.

Have a Research Need in Mind?

Tell us what you are trying to learn. We will walk through the data we already have for your category and what a custom program to fill the gaps would look like.

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