Beyond Affordability: Unlocking Enhanced Value Across Industries

June 2025

Consumers no longer assess brands by price alone but by a shifting matrix of priorities – from health and convenience to sustainability and digital experience. As disruptors – including new platforms and non-traditional players – move faster and intensify competition, companies across industries must recalibrate their value strategies to maintain relevance, defend market share, and capture new growth opportunities.

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Key findings

Affordability is only a starting point

While value for money remains top-of-mind, consumers increasingly expect more for less, even as companies face greater uncertainties, rising cost pressures and margin erosion. To succeed, companies must find ways to elevate their value offers - delivering enhanced benefits that resonate with today’s cost-conscious yet discerning consumers.

Hyper-segmentation is key to unlocking growth

What defines “value” varies widely across consumer segments, shaped by multiple dimensions, including income, lifestyle, life stage, consumption occasions, need states, digital savviness and more. Successful companies leverage hyper-segmentation - built on intersecting layers of socioeconomic, demographic, behavioural, psychographic and contextual data - for more precise and relevant product innovation, service design and pricing strategy.

Value is a holistic ecosystem

Companies need to reimagine value as a holistic ecosystem - going beyond price and product to deliver emotional, functional, financial benefits and more. To do this, they need to build strategic partnerships that enable holistic value delivery. Transparency across operations and supply chains is equally vital to foster authenticity, loyalty and trust.

Focus on unlocking and delivering enhanced value

Winning in today’s fragmented, price-sensitive and uncertain market requires companies to decisively move beyond price competition and focus on unlocking and delivering enhanced value at every touchpoint. This requires deeper consumer insights, investment in innovation and technology, operational efficiencies and the creation of meaningful experiences that build trust and emotional connection.

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Key findings
Affordability remains the highest priority for consumers
Consumers continue to focus on affordability and simultaneously demand enhanced value
Businesses have limited room to raise prices while facing rising costs and uncertainties
The imperative for enhanced value
Value beyond price is essential for growth
Consumers seek a sophisticated mix of competitive pricing and enhanced value
SAIC: Making affordability core via innovation and lean manufacturing
InterContinental Hotels Group: Bundling affordability with tailored experiences
Make affordability core and move beyond it to unlock growth
Peeking into different consumer realities
Hyper-segmentation empowers companies to move beyond one-size-fits-all solutions
Data-driven segmentation in action: Euromonitor’s Consumer Types
Gousto : Focus on technology to target micro-segments
Red Bull: Unlock growth with hyper-segmentation grounded in real-time insights
Turning market fragmentation and complexity into a competitive edge
Holistic value propositions drive consumer choice
Go beyond the price and the product to resonate with consumers and build loyalty
DoorDash x Klarna: Forming a strategic partnership to unlock convenience and loyalty
Sainsbury’s and peers: Navigating authenticity in value delivery
Holistic value as the new frontier beyond affordability
Enhanced value as a growth engine across industries
Beyond affordability: How to win
Evolution of “Beyond Affordability”
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