Kantar introduces Uganda’s first consumer panel tracking households’ FMCG purchase decisions
Kantar, the world’s evidence-based insights and consulting company, has announced the launch of Uganda’s first ever consumer panel, providing detailed shopper data across 30 FMCG categories and all retail channels. The first dataset will be available in September 2024.
This Worldpanel Pulse Panel will provide brands, manufacturers and retailers with a detailed picture of Ugandan households’ FMCG purchase decisions in the food, beverage, dairy, personal care and home care sectors. Data is based on actual purchase behaviour – not what shoppers recall they bought – ensuring that insights are accurate.
Comprising 1,000 households of all ages, sizes and socioeconomic levels, the panel is representative of 73% of Uganda’s 41 million-strong population. It covers large, medium and smaller cities and towns in both urban and semi-urban regions.
The insights will bring local and global clients an understanding of how many households buy their brands – and those of their competitors, which ones, how often, who the buyers are, and what they pay. Collecting shoppers’ psychographics along with demographics uncovers the values, attitudes, interests and lifestyles that shape their behaviour.
The launch of Worldpanel division’s Pulse Panel in Uganda further increases Kantar’s footprint in the high potential East Africa region, where it has been present since 2013 through its continuous panel in Kenya. Kantar offers the widest coverage of any market research company in Africa and the Middle East, and the most complete view of consumers there, with panels also in Ghana, Ethiopia, South Africa, Nigeria, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and UAE. This latest investment in Uganda will be followed by panels in Algeria, Cameroon, Senegal and Tanzania to meet client demand.
Idriss El Ganari, General Manager, Worldpanel division, Kantar, Africa and Middle East, says: “Uganda’s FMCG sector offers significant growth potential, driven by rising incomes, an expanding population and urbanisation. To secure growth and expand their market share, brands, manufacturers and retailers must develop their knowledge of consumers’ needs and behaviours. Worldpanel division’s new Pulse Panel will help them to understand their performance compared with competitors, and uncover opportunities – for instance to boost brand awareness and localise their products, both of which are important in this market.”
