Catalina Introduces Investment Planner

Catalina, the personalized digital media company, is offering Catalina Investment Planner, a marketing planning application that company officials say allows CPG brands and retailers to identify their profitable growth potential by leveraging insights from 260 millions shopper IDs and 16 billion shopper transactions.

Calling it an industry first, Catalina U.S.A. president Todd Morris says the Investment Planner is part of the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based company’s ROI Value Creation Initiative. It is a highly visual, proprietary iPad application that gives marketers, brand managers and executive decision makers the ability to quickly visualize opportunities for efficient growth. The application is designed to guide the creation of campaigns and strategic plans based on estimated end-of-campaign metrics and sales results.

Catalina officials say the Investment Planner addresses a critical need in the CPG industry for improved marketing efficiency. The application integrates insights into the purchasing behavior of shoppers with a historical database of Catalina campaigns and results. It allows Catalina to work with clients to design smarter, more efficient campaigns and review investment scenarios in real-time for meeting business objectives at the best possible ROI.

Using the Investment Planner, Catalina can collaborate with clients to test and modify campaign parameters, such as program objectives, targeted buyer audiences, type and scope of campaign, coupon values, investment levels and more. As it makes billions of calculations in the background, the application shows how various decisions could impact product trial, loyalty and volume, return on investment, and total incremental dollar sales.

“While others are talking about impressions, Catalina is partnering with its brand and retail partners to power outcomes,” says Morris. “Our new Investment Planner takes the guesswork out of campaign design and planning.  We can now show with unparalleled certainty the impact on growth of different campaign scenarios in terms of dollars and cents and return on investment.

“This new application is another example of how Catalina is innovating to help revolutionize marketing performance for our industry and our clients.”