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title: "Market entry research for a health brand in four markets | antedote"
description: "Market sizing and message testing with parents in three markets, and qualitative research with mothers in a fourth, for a health brand planning its entry."
url: "https://antedote.com/explore-our-work/a-health-brands-entry-into-four-markets/"
author: "antedote"
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# Planning a health brand’s entry into four new markets

Each new market commits stock, marketing and management attention. A health brand for parents was weighing four new markets, so we sized three and tested its messages with parents there, and explored with mothers in the fourth how the proposition would need to adapt.

**Client**
Healthcare company

**Industry**
Health and wellness

**Markets**
Four new markets

**Kind of work**
Market entry

**Our role**
Market sizing and message testing in three markets, qualitative research in a fourth

## What happened next

The brand later launched in one of the markets we had researched.

## The question

A health brand for parents was weighing entry into four new markets.

Its team needed to know who to target in each, how to position the range, and how parents would receive the brand’s current messages.

The uncertainty underneath was simple: would enough parents consider the product at all, and would messages written for the home market travel?

## Our approach

We researched the markets in two ways, each suited to what the team needed to know there.

In three markets, we sized the opportunity and tested the brand’s messages with current and expectant parents, who saw the range as a concept in their own language.

In the fourth, qualitative research with mothers explored how the proposition would need to adapt.

A common set of proposition statements ran through both parts, put to parents in the survey and discussed with mothers in the qualitative work, so the two kinds of evidence could be read together.

## What the team came away with

The international expansion team had a sizing of the opportunity in three markets, and an assessment of how the brand’s messages worked with parents in each.

From the fourth market, it had qualitative evidence on how the proposition would need to adapt, so every market could be weighed on evidence suited to it.

Who we heard from

Current and expectant parents in three markets, in a survey; mothers in a fourth, in qualitative research

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**What we do**
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## Considering a new market?

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