[Webinar Recap] How Mars Petcare Bridged Data Gaps to Drive Product Performance

How Review Data Can Transform Your Product Strategy

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Investment to Drive Innovation in Product Data Insights and Enhance Value for Retail and CPG Customers

NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Harmonya, the AI-powered platform for product data enrichment, insights, and attribution serving CPG brands and retailers, today announced a strategic investment from dunnhumby ventures and its existing investors, Bright Pixel Capital and Team8. This investment reflects a shared commitment to advancing AI-driven solutions and enhancing value for the retail and consumer packaged goods ecosystem. This influx of capital will accelerate Harmonya's 2025 product roadmap, enabling new use cases and faster time-to-value for both brands and retailers.

"Key retail decision makers need to view products and their attributes from the consumer's perspective."

The investment and broader collaboration aim to accelerate Harmonya's growth and innovation while enhancing dunnhumby's suite of advanced data and AI propositions. Harmonya and dunnhumby plan to leverage their combined expertise to address critical market challenges, deliver actionable insights, and create opportunities for their customers to drive sustainable growth.

"We are honored to partner with dunnhumby. Their strategic investment represents a powerful vote of confidence in our vision and technology," said Cem Kent, Co-Founder and CEO of Harmonya. "Together, we will help the world's largest CPG and retail companies solve their toughest data challenges and achieve new levels of success."

"To thrive in today's dynamic market, key retail decision makers need to view products and their attributes from the consumer's perspective. We are thrilled to support Harmonya's brilliant team and AI-powered approach to making product information meaningful by solving this critical product attribute inconsistency problem," said Leo Nagdas, Head of dunnhumby ventures. "We look forward to collaborating on our mission to transform often inconsistent, disparate, and complex product data sets into meaningful and actionable strategic assets that deliver rapid efficiencies and value across organizations."

About Harmonya
Harmonya is redefining how CPG brands and retailers approach product data. Our AI-powered solutions for product data enrichment, insights, and attribution transform static product information into actionable intelligence, helping businesses navigate today's data-driven economy with speed and confidence.

By combining cutting-edge AI technology with a deep understanding of CPG and retail, Harmonya enables Fortune 500 companies, including six of the top 10 global CPG brands, discover trends, improve decision-making, and achieve measurable growth.

With over 20 million products, hundreds of categories, and more than $500 billion in tracked annual sales, Harmonya offers the industry's most comprehensive enriched data coverage. Our team of experts spans offices in New York and Tel Aviv, dedicated to driving innovation for iconic brands like Coca-Cola, Unilever, PepsiCo, Nestlé, and Mars Petcare. Learn more at www.harmonya.com.

About dunnhumby ventures:

dunnhumby ventures is dunnhumby's strategic venture capital and ecosystem-led innovation arm with a mandate to partner and invest in early-stage retail technology start-ups that embrace data and artificial intelligence for innovation along the customer's path to purchase. Backed by dunnhumby -the global customer data science leader- dunnhumby ventures seeks to foster industry collaboration via the Retail Innovation Network, its exclusive ecosystem of senior retail innovation leaders, and seeks to align with founders at an early stage to supercharge their ability to take innovation to market by tapping into dunnhumby's retail industry expertise, data science assets, and global retailer and supplier partner network. Its focus areas include artificial intelligence (AI), data capture and enrichment, retail media, loyalty and customer engagement, category management, supply chain, and commerce.

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[Webinar Recap] How Mars Petcare Bridged Data Gaps to Drive Product Performance

How Review Data Can Transform Your Product Strategy

Brands have to get closer to their shoppers. Period. In our latest webinar, we explored how AI-driven insights from customer review data can better inform category management strategy, revealing trends and gaps that traditional methods overlook.

Highlights from the Webinar (Watch the Recording Here!)

During the session, Michael Mackezyk from Mars Petcare, and Gina Carbone from Harmonya explored:

  1. The Power of Consumer Reviews: We dug into how review data is a goldmine of insights. It’s like having an unfiltered conversation with your customers, revealing what they love and where they’re left wanting more in your product lineup.
  2. Competitive Analysis with Real Consumer Feedback: We showed how diving into review data across different brands can shine a light on what sets you apart—or what might be holding you back. It’s all about finding those strengths and weaknesses to give you that edge over the competition.
  3. Closing Data Gaps for Better Decision-Making: We walked through how contextual AI can help spot trends and gaps in your product assortment. It's not just about filling data gaps; it's about making smarter, data-driven decisions for your category strategy.

Data Gap Case Study: Mars Petcare's Success Story

The core piece from the webinar was our discussion of how we helped Mars Petcare solve a huge gap in their market understanding. They had a big challenge on their hands: sales data gaps with online retailers. Nearly 20% of their products were missing Retailer IDs, making it tough to get a clear picture of their sales trends.

S‍o, our AI-powered enrichment got to work, matching over 2,000 missing items by linking retailer IDs with UPCs. This fix didn’t just fill in the gaps—it boosted Mars Petcare's market coverage, revealing an extra $1.7 billion in annual sales visibility.

This story really shows how enriched product data can drive smarter, data-backed decisions. It’s more than just plugging holes—it’s about gaining a competitive edge with a clearer, more complete view of the market.

Key Takeaways

  1. AI-Driven Analysis: Using AI to dig into consumer reviews gives you real, actionable insights, so you can quickly adjust to what your customers actually want.
  2. Data-Enriched Product Segmentation: With enriched attributes, you get more precise segmentation that highlights what really matters to your consumers.
  3. Informed Decisions: These insights help you fine-tune your marketing and product strategies, giving you a stronger edge in the market.

Missed the Live Webinar? Watch the Recording!

Couldn’t make it to the live session? No worries—we've got you! The full recording is ready whenever you are. Just click the link below to dive in and see how consumer review data can power up your product strategy.

👉 Watch the Webinar Recording Now

Whether you’re looking to enhance your product data management, uncover new market opportunities, or simply stay ahead of consumer trends, this webinar is packed with practical insights to help you get there.

Next Steps

For everyone who joined us, thanks for being part of the conversation! We hope the session sparked some fresh ideas and new ways to use our insights for growth. Got questions or want to chat about how Harmonya's AI-powered platform can help your business? We're here—reach out anytime at info@harmonya.com.

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