At A Glance
Swiss Sense used Experian Mosaic® segmentation solution to scale customer insights across international markets with a unified segmentation approach. By identifying and targeting high-value segments, the brand aligned teams, improved campaign efficiency, and uncovered new opportunities for growth.Swiss Sense built its growth strategy by establishing a consistent consumer view across every market, using Mosaic’s global and local segmentation to align how they identify and target high-value audiences. Swiss Sense’s mission is to provide exceptional sleep comfort for all. The European retailer analyzed consumer data across its markets to better understand its ideal consumer profile and guide expansion. To achieve this, Swiss Sense used Experian’s Mosaic data, a unified customer segmentation solution that provides a consistent view of consumers, prospects, and markets.
Using Mosaic data, Swiss Sense identified key consumer personas and tailored their communications to match. Partnering with Experian, they created personalized product recommendations, delivering targeted messaging through direct mail, out-of-home advertising, and leafletting campaigns.
What is Mosaic and how does it work?
Experian’s Mosaic is a household-level consumer segmentation system that classifies all households within a country into distinct Groups and Types based on life stage, affluence, behaviors, and lifestyle characteristics. It provides a consistent, data-driven view of consumers and prospects across markets.
For marketers, Mosaic connects insight to activation. It creates a shared understanding of audiences across teams, removes reliance on disconnected datasets, and makes it easier to plan, target, and scale campaigns with confidence.
With Mosaic, brands can:
How did Swiss Sense use Experian’s Mosaic data to drive market-specific growth?
Swiss Sense used Mosaic data across its markets to define high-value consumers segments and apply those insights to guide expansion. This created a repeatable model for identifying where and how to grow.
Swiss Sense focused on expanding its presence by using Mosaic profiles across its markets to identify and understand its highest-value consumers. These insights were then used to shape marketing and media strategies in each region.
Their objectives included:
- Develop regional strategies
- Integrate data-driven insights into their local and international marketing strategy
How did Mosaic support a scalable, data-driven strategy?
Mosaic provided each market with a consistent segmentation framework, giving Swiss Sense a repeatable way to understand and activate audiences across countries. While each country’s Mosaic is built on local data, the underlying methodology remains the same, creating a consistent approach to segmentation in every market.
This meant Swiss Sense didn’t need to rebuild audiences or redefine personas market by market. Instead, they could apply the same way of working with data across regions, ensuring both local relevance and global consistency.
With Mosaic, Swiss Sense benefitted from:
- A standardized segmentation model across regions
- The ability to layer local market nuance with global consistency
- A shared language across marketing, analytics, and media teams
This enabled Swiss Sense to:
- Identify high-value consumer segments in the Netherlands
- Map those segments across new markets
- Prioritize regions and cities with the strongest growth potential
How did Swiss Sense use Mosaic insights to shape marketing and consumer strategy?
Swiss Sense used Mosaic insights to guide messaging, creative, and channel selection. This ensured campaigns reflected real audience behaviors and preferences.
By partnering with Experian, Swiss Sense was able to seamlessly implement a solution tailored to their unique needs. Swiss Sense gained an overview of its customer base while using the more granular Mosaic data in each country to gain the optimal understanding of each region’s consumers.
These insights helped Swiss Sense’s marketing team, allowing them to craft targeted consumer content, suggest relevant imagery, and adopt the right tone of voice. Identifying key Mosaic growth segments further enabled Swiss Sense to focus marketing efforts on regions and cities over-indexing for their ideal consumer types.
This led to the execution of highly targeted offline campaigns, including:
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FAQs
Mosaic is a unified consumer segmentation that classifies households into distinct groups based on life stage, affluence, behaviors, and lifestyle characteristics. It gives businesses a consistent view of their customers and prospects, helping them target the right audiences, align teams, and drive more effective marketing strategies.
Mosaic supports international marketing by enabling brands toidentifyhigh-performing customer segments and apply a consistent approach across markets. Available in 14 countries, Mosaic uses the same segmentationmethodologyin each, while incorporating local data to ensure market-specific relevance.
Yes, Mosaic can be used across different marketing channels as it supports both offline and digital activation, including direct mail, out-of-home, programmatic, and social, helping brands maintain consistent targeting across channels.
Mosiaccan improve targeting byhelping teamsfocusinvestmenton high-valueconsumers.Itprovidesdeeper insight beyond basicdemographics,enablingmore relevant messaging andreducewastedspend.
About Swiss Sense
Founded by the Diks family in 2006, Swiss Sense is a Dutch family-owned retailer specializing in high-quality beds, mattresses, and bedroom accessories. With over 2,000 employees and stores across multiple European countries, Swiss Sense is dedicated to providing exceptional sleep comfort for all. To learn more, please visit www.SwissSense.nl.
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