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About Innobrands

Our Philosophy

Innobrands is a specialized consultancy for innovation, shopper marketing, and category growth in the FMCG market.

The company supports brands from the initial idea through to purchase at the point of sale, ensuring that innovations are successfully brought to market. For its clients, Innobrands is a guarantee of better decisions and better results.

Andreas Luppold Founder & CEO

Expert in Purchase Decision Behavior, Innovator, Orchestrator & Sparring Partner

Andreas Luppold has more than 25 years of experience in research and consulting focused on purchase decision behavior in the FMCG market.

He is co-author of the book „33 henomena of Purchase Decisions“

The decision-making mechanisms described in the book form an important foundation for Innobrands’ consulting and analytical models.

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As a sparring partner, Andreas Luppold helps companies to:

  • Better understand shoppers and consumers
  • Refine innovations
  • Make brands and products more successful
  • Support the journey from idea to implementation
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Portrait Andreas Luppold – Gründer und CEO von Innobrands

Our Advisory Board

To further develop our approach, Innobrands is supported by an advisory board that brings together academic expertise and extensive experience from the FMCG industry, research, retail, and technology.

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Prof. Dr. Sebastian Oetzel

Professor of Business Administration, with a special focus on Marketing, at Fulda University of Applied Sciences.

He has supervised experiments and data analytics projects in the grocery retail sector and has extensive experience in designing, conducting, and evaluating both academic and practice-oriented studies.

His research focuses on the application of quantitative methods to optimize marketing decisions, particularly in pricing and promotion strategies, as well as on the analysis of purchasing behavior in retail and the consumer goods industry.

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Jörg Pretzel

More than 30 years of experience across a range of industries, including consumer goods, marketing, and technology.

From 2003 to 2017, he served as Managing Director of GS1 Germany GmbH. In this role, he played a key part in advancing standards and solutions for efficient supply chains, master data management and digitalization in the retail sector.

Today Jörg Pretzel contributes his extensive experience as a member of the advisory board, particularly in strategic issues related to digitalization, connectivity, and operational efficiency.

What Distinguishes Innobrands

  • Expertise in purchase decision behavior and brand development
  • FMCG and retail expertise – many years of experience in consumer goods and retail markets
  • Analysis & Decision Intelligence – combining strategic thinking with pragmatic execution

The Result:

Strategies and innovations that succeed in the market and enable sustainable growth.

Experience with leading brands across various FMCG categories

Kunden-Referenzen

The brands shown are used solely to illustrate Andreas Luppold’s professional experience to date. There is no current business relationship with, or endorsement by, the respective brand owners.

The Mutti Case

The Seven Success Factors Behind Mutti Parma’s Success in Germany:

  • Deep shopper and consumer understanding
  • Continuous innovation
  • Differentiated product quality
  • Continuous communication with consumers / shoppers
  • Ongoing communication with retail partners
  • Strong presence and excellence at the point of sale
  • Development of the entire category
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Mutti's revenue growth from 6 million to 100 million euros in 8 years

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Innobrands supports FMCG companies in successfully guiding innovations to purchase decisions and achieving sustainable growth for both brands and categories.

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