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Together we make better products

SensoryInsight is the sensory research division of InsightAsia Research Group

Our sensory services cover the entire ‘sensory research space’ – from product understanding through descriptive analysis and discrimination tests to consumer understanding through acceptance and preference tests. Advanced data analysis techniques are used to combine product and consumer data – enabling us to perform “drivers of liking” analysis and predictive modeling – thus providing valuable information to our clients helping them to create better products.

Each of our sensory research projects is carefully designed to provide our clients with actionable information to address specific business challenges.

The “Sensory Research Space”

Given our experience, specialization and on the ground market presence in key Asian markets, SensoryInsight is a one-stop sensory research house for all Market Evaluation, New Product Development, Product Optimization and Quality Control research needs in Asia.

Our sensory work encompasses the full spectrum of qualitative and quantitative research techniques, managed and undertaken by a team of experienced research professionals – across the Asian region.



Our Approach to Sensory Consumer Insights

We treat each research project as unique and hence tailor our recommendation to fully address the specific business issues at hand.

When it comes, for example, to product development or product optimization, a combined approach is used – trained sensory expert panel for product profiling (quantitative descriptive analysis) and consumers for product liking information – providing us a rich source of data for targeted product optimization!

We are looking beyond the mere techniques, above all we are looking at the best solution to answer business issues to allow clients to introduce products to the market that are truly liked by consumers.

 

Our Sensory Consumer Research Experiences

The SensoryInsight research team has comprehensive experiences working with sensory expert and consumer panels (e.g. set up, recruitment, training, maintenance and evaluation), using a wide array for sensory research methods such as quantitative descriptive analysis (QDA), discrimination tests (e.g. triangle test, duo-trio test, nAFC test), product-concept tests, as well as preference and acceptance tests.

Our advanced data analysis work covers all sorts of multivariate data analysis techniques, including Drivers of Liking Analysis, Preference Mapping, and Predictive Modeling (Reverse Engineering).

We have worked across various product categories, amongst others Juices & Fruit Drinks, Breakfast & Snack Food, Milk & Dairy Products, Alcoholic Beverages, Herbs & Spices, Baked Goods, Confectionery Products, Meat Products and Fresh Products.

The SensoryInsight research team is regularly attending sensory research events (e.g. SPISE Symposium in Vietnam and the Pangborn Symposium in the US) to stay in touch with latest trends and developments in the sensory world.

Key Services & Capabilities

Our key signature sensory research tools are:

  Product Profiler

Designed to provide detailed product “fingerprints” - allowing for an excellent understanding how products are perceived by consumers. Results give precise information about specific product characteristics and their respective intensity, as it shows on which attributes products are alike and on which they are different. This is a vital step for a complete understanding of a product category.

 Product Optimizer

The Product Optimizer is our signature research tool for the entire product development and product optimization process. The tool combines product profiles analyzed by a sensory expert panel with consumer liking data to identify drivers of product liking and to establish an optimal product profile to maximize product liking by a given consumer segment.

 SensoryConjoint

This is the cutting-edge sensory research tool – combining intrinsic and extrinsic product features - to extract vital consumer insights for your marketing strategy. It allows us to measure and explain consumer decision-making by variability of products (taste, smell, feel), concepts, packaging, emotions, benefits and marketing scenarios to ensure market success.

 Product Quality Monitor

The Product Quality Monitor is SensoyInsight’s Retail Quality Audit and serves as a proactive and objective way to measure product quality and consumer satisfaction. The tool provides vital information on regular intervals, as consumers will evaluate various products either at the POP (point of purchase) or POU (point of use).

 Sensory Seminars and In-house training

We also conduct sensory evaluation seminars to provide interested delegates from the food and non-food industry with valuable insights into sensory fundamentals as well as new trends. In addition, we offer in-house sensory training at client venues.

Sensory Research Team & Contact Information

Please feel free to email us. We would be delighted to discuss your sensory consumer insight research needs with you.

  Dr Dieter Walz --  dieter@insightasia.com

  Dr Alma de Leon --  alma@insightasia.com

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