CBME South East Asia Industry Seminar: “How to Grow Your Baby Business”
Country in Focus: Malaysia
CBME SEA Industry Seminar, part of the esteemed CBME (Children Baby Maternity Expo) series provides an invaluable opportunity to be inspired, share ideas, and connect with local baby stores, retailers and distributors from Malaysia.
The free-to-attend seminar is open to all children, baby and maternity product retailers, distributors and brand owners who are interested to find out more about the trends and insights of the market to help you with your future business plans and gain the opportunity to speak with top industry professionals.
Time | Session | Speaker |
9.00am – 9.30am | Registration | |
9.30am – 9.45am | Introduction and Speech by President | Mr Gwei Tze Co |
9.45am – 10.00am | Introduction to UBM/ CBME SEA | CBME |
10.00am – 11.00am | Booth Walk Through | |
11.00am – 11.30am | Growing with Baby Steps | Nielsen |
11.35am – 12.05pm | How New Mothers are Changing Their Behaviour & The Importance of Recruitment | Kantar World Panel |
12.10pm – 12.40pm | E-commerce in Malaysia & Mommy’s Digital Behaviour | Kantar TNS |
12.45pm – 1.15pm | The New Connected Consumer | GFK |
Time | Session |
9.00am – 9.30am | Registration |
9.30am – 9.45am | Introduction and Speech by President Speaker: Mr Gwei Tze Co |
9.45am – 10.00am | Introduction to UBM / CBME SEA Company: CBME |
10.00am – 11.00am | Booth Walk Through |
11.00am – 11.30am | Growing with Baby Steps Speaker: Manisha Kinalekar Company: Nielsen Nielsen Malaysia There are few things as precious as a newborn baby, and parents want the very best for their child—from the food they put in their mouths to the diapers they put on their bottoms. And they’re willing to spend for it. As for baby care manufacturers, there’s plenty at stake in the battle for baby bucks and Nielsen’s got the insights this big market needs to know for little consumers. |
11.35am – 12.05pm | How New Mothers are Changing Their Behaviour & The Importance of Recruitment Speaker: James Graham, Insight Director Company: Kantar Worldpanel The seminar session will include insights about the latest topline trends that mothers in Malaysia are showing when purchasing in the Baby Category. The seminar will touch on the actual cash value that recruitment brings into the market. |
12.10pm – 12.40pm | E-commerce in Malaysia and Mommy’s Digital Behaviour Speaker: Paromeeta Mathur Banerjee, Director, Client Service Innovation and Product Development Lead Company: Kantar TNS Malaysia The world is becoming increasingly more connected, giving marketers the opportunity to engage their audiences through more touchpoints, delivering more services and fulfilling more of people’s needs. The diversity of response to connectivity however throws a challenge to traditional segmentations as category attitudes nor cohorts are particularly effective at determining connected behaviours. This session will help you understand to various market segmentations and how to influence them. |
12.45pm – 1.15pm | The New Connected Consumer Speaker: Jillian Tan, Account Manager Company: GFK A new breed of consumers have emerged from a more connected world. The presentation will evolve around the new connected consumer, while giving listeners a glimpse into what to expect in the retail business as a side-effect of this. The session will give insights on the connected consumer index, who is the connected consumer and what has changed in retail? As well, what is the future like for the retail industry, taking into account new advances in mobile and tech. |
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Manisha Kinalekar Director of Retailer Vertical of Nielsen Malaysia With a Masters in Marketing and Research, Manisha has been in the Research industry for more than 10 years. Starting off with the Retail Measurement team in India with Nielsen Mumbai, she has worked with key FMCG and Lubricants clients. Manisha has been in Malaysia for the last 5 years, with Nielsen and Dunnhumby working on Retail & Shopper Research as well as Media Planning for key clients like Nestle, Unilever, P&G, Carlsberg and Danone. She now works with key retailers like DFI, AS Watsons, Tesco and Aeon on trade and category insights. Manisha is a mother of two – an eight year old prince and a three year old princess. She also believes that without data, you are just another person with an opinion. |
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James Graham Insight Director of Kantar Worldpanel James Graham is the Insight Director for Kantar Worldpanel, and have worked in the FMCG industry for more than 10 years both client side and agency side mainly in roles which focuses on shopper-understanding and how shoppers behave. He firmly believes that all excellent marketing and activity that is done have had the shoppers at their heart and have worked in his career to help FMCG companies understand & quantify this. |
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Paromeeta Mathur Banerjee Director, Client Service Innovation and Product Development Lead of Kantar TNS Paro is a Director with TNS Malaysia and leads the Innovation & Product Development business in Malaysia. She has more than 16 years of experience in market research. She has specialized expertise in the FMCG domain, and has worked across a range of leading brands in her career so far, such as Nestle, PepsiCo, Danone, Glaxo SmithKline, Campbell’s and F&N just to name a few. Her extensive research experience ranges across innovation related research such as large scale and strategic usage & attitude studies, segmentation research including white space and opportunities identification, brand & communication research and strives towards delivering invaluable insights targeted at driving growth for business. |
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Jillian Tan Account Manager of GFK Jillian has close to 8 years of experience in working with data, a majority of which was built with GfK. Her experience in market research encompasses fact-based consulting to household appliance giants in Malaysia, helping brands identify strategic drivers of growth and providing insights into consumer’s spending patterns in the Malaysian market. She is passionate about how markets continue to evolve as technology facilitated lifestyles become the norm. |
Seminar Details:
Date: 20 October 2016 (Thursday)
Time: 9am – 1.15pm
Venue: MATRADE Exhibition & Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Cost: Free
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Join us to find out more about the trends and insights of the market to help you with your future business plans and gain the opportunity to speak face-to-face with top industry professionals.