Consumer research
& strategy
New York

When the answer matters

Labrador is a consumer research and strategy firm for the decisions that define businesses. Collaborative. Rigorous. Always with a point of view.

A repositioning. A new market. A move the board is watching. The moments where clarity is not optional.

Who we work with
Kraft HeinzPepsiCoColgate-PalmoliveTyson Foods LexusRitz-CarltonRalph LaurenPUMA NFLFox SportsWalgreensSuave TUROHipCampYellow Wood Partners
Services

Research built around a question. Strategy built around an answer.

Not a deck full of findings. An answer.

01

Consumer Research

Qualitative and quantitative research designed around the decisions your business most needs to get right.

02

Innovation and Growth

New market entry, product development and audience expansion. Where fresh opportunity exists, and whether the conditions are right to pursue it.

03

Brand Strategy

Positioning, architecture and proposition work grounded in human truth and market opportunity, and shaped by what the business needs to do next.

Our position

The part most research leaves out.

We reach a conclusion. We tell you what we think it means, and what we would do about it.

Senior attention

Senior people. Start to finish.

Boutique by design. The people who understand your brief are the people who work on it.

We don't hand your work down. We stay in it with you, from the shape of the questions to the clarity of the answers.

Benjamin Allen, Founder
Wieden+Kennedy · Hal Riney · Sterling Brands · FCB
Categories

Four worlds. Different consumer cultures, different stakes.

A

Food & beverage

Brand health, identity and cultural shifts at the speed of consumer goods.

B

Technology & media

Categories where behavior outpaces conventional research.

C

Luxury & lifestyle

Nuanced, culturally attuned, never reductive.

D

Beauty & wellness

Identity, ritual and what consumers are becoming.