Australians Lead In Loyalty Program Memberships In Global Survey
Aimia's Global Loyalty Lens Report identifies a golden moment for marketers around the world, as consumers share data more openly with companies, allowing you to build upon your customer engagement strategies. We explore the Australian trends within this release.
- (1888PressRelease) March 16, 2016 - Australian membership of supermarket loyalty programs is the second highest in a global survey of 11 countries, according to research from Aimia Inc. (TSX:AIM), a data-driven marketing and loyalty analytics company.
Seventy-three percent of Italians participate in a supermarket loyalty program closely followed by the U.K. and Australia both with 72 percent of the population. Australians top the nations surveyed in their airline loyalty membership with 39% compared to 11% in the U.K., 23% in the U.S. and 10% in Germany.
"Our global research confirms that Australia is a mature market when it comes to loyalty programs," said Paul Smitton, Managing Director, Australia and N.Z., Aimia. "With such high levels of participation, businesses must use these loyalty programs to build meaningful relationships with their customers and deliver personalized communications and offers based on the information that their customers have shared with them."
Other findings from Aimia's Global Loyalty Lens research include:
• 87% of Australians are members of at least one loyalty program compared to the global average of 85%.
• The most popular sectors for loyalty membership in Australia after supermarkets and airlines are: department stores (30%); pharmacies (24%); and credit cards (22%)
• Eighty percent of Australians are willing to share personal information such as their email address, name (78%) and nationality (73%) with brands. Australians are less comfortable sharing web history (20%).
Smitton, who recently spoke on a panel at the Retail Leaders Forum in Sydney, moved to Aimia from Qantas, where he held the post of Executive Manager, Customer Engagement and Loyalty Solutions. With more than 25 years of experience in loyalty marketing, Paul has held a variety of positions across the globe including tenures in London, Zurich, Hong Kong, New Delhi and Auckland. Additionally he has an impressive track record of driving growth in new and competitive markets.
"As businesses try to maintain relevance with their most valued customers, loyalty management has moved from being a marketing tool to a key part of the relationship between retailers and their customers. Aimia provides its clients with new and innovative ways to create this personalized customer experience, and I am very excited to help them achieve this goal," Smitton said.
ABOUT THE RESEARCH
The 2015 Global Loyalty Lens study surveyed more than 20,000 consumers across 11 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States. While allowances were made for those markets where the samples were not nationally representative (India, Brazil, United Arab Emirates) due to demographic bias in internet penetration, care was taken to ensure the samples in all countries were comparable to previous years so that year-over-year comparisons could be made accurately.
Read more on the global loyalty market, coupon usage and softening attitudes toward digital wallets on our website: http://www.aimia.com/en/ANZ/home.html
ABOUT AIMIA
Aimia Inc. (TSX:AIM) is a data-driven marketing and loyalty analytics company. We provide our clients with the customer insights they need to make smarter business decisions and build relevant, rewarding and long-term one-to-one relationships, evolving the value exchange to the mutual benefit of both our clients and consumers.
Aimia partners with groups of companies (coalitions) and individual companies to help generate, collect and analyze customer data and build actionable insights.
We do this through our own coalition loyalty programs such as Aeroplan in Canada and Nectar in the UK, and through provision of loyalty strategy, program development, implementation and management services underpinned by leading products and technology platforms such as the Aimia Loyalty Platform and Smart Button, and through our analytics and insights business, including Intelligent Shopper Solutions.
In other markets, we own stakes in loyalty programs, such as Club Premier in Mexico, Air Miles Middle East and Think Big, a partnership with Air Asia and Tune Group. Our clients are diverse, and we have industry-leading expertise in the fast-moving consumer goods, retail, financial services, and travel and airline industries globally to deliver against their unique needs.
For a full list of our partnerships and investments, and more information about Aimia, visit http://www.aimia.com/en/ANZ/home.html
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