Acorn
POWERFUL GEODEMOGRAPHICS, CUSTOMER INSIGHT AND RESOURCE TARGETING.

Acorn provides a detailed understanding of the consumer characteristics of people and places across the South Africa, allowing you to define and deliver appropriate targeting strategies across all consumer facing sectors. Whether you are trying to understand your existing customers, identify profitable prospects or allocate resources effectively, Acorn can provide insight to help you do just that.
Acorn is a geodemographic segmentation of the South Africa’s population. It segments households, postcodes and neighbourhoods into 6 categories, 18 groups and 62 types. By analysing significant social factors and population behaviour, it provides precise information and an in-depth understanding of different types of people.
Acorn can be used across all channels from traditional direct marketing to digital advertising. The rise in the use of digital technologies, omni-channel commerce and the increase in economic pressures are reflected in the lifestyles, behaviours and socio-demographic descriptions in the User Guides.
Recognising the demographics and lifestyle attributes of the people who interact with your organisation and thereby creating appropriate messaging through the right channels at the right location is paramount to any successful engagement strategy.


Resources
User Guides
Knowledge Guides
Our Clients
The Benefits
- Fully rebuilt and updated annually with the latest and newly available data
- Revolutionary methodology ensuring an up to date model with consistently improving accuracy and usability
- Data independent
- New data sources can be incorporated without compromising the solution
- No single data source is more important than any other
- Over 1.1 billion data inputs
- Sensitive naming of segments
- Available for multi-channel campaigning
Knowledge

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Applications
- Gain insight into customers and prospects
- Deliver intelligence on local populations
- Improve proposition development
- Target campaigns more effectively
- Optimise branch or retail networks
- Assess local demand for products and services
- Provide knowledge and mitigate risk for expansion planning
- Benchmark your customers against the underlying population
- Target online display and social media advertising
Case Study
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Successful market strategy for major leisure attractions
Further Information
For further information on Acorn and how it can help you understand and target customers and service users please visit the dedicated Acorn website or call one of our data specialists.








