What makes Döhler Sensory & Consumer Science the right choice for your market success:
With Döhler Multi-Sensory Excellence, we offer the food and beverage industry a unique integrated research approach for long-term product success. We are the specialist with comprehensive expertise and years of experience in all categories of the beverage sector.
Sensory Science
Expert panels for objective perception and measurement of all sensory dimensions
- More than 450 sensory science experts, including a large number of applications developers
- Direct transfer of necessary product optimisations as specific changes to recipes, as we speak the language of our developers
- Sensory profiles of more than 600 products from 20 product categories
Consumer Science
Analysis of consumer acceptance and emotions before, during and after product tastings
- Worldwide network of fielding partners for consumer studies with your local target group
- Experience from sensory studies with more than 20,000 consumers and results from more than 1,300 products
- Use of scientifically-validated test methods for sensory consumer research
The specialist for sensory science and consumer research in the entire world of food and beverages.
Döhler Sensory & Consumer Science is your independent partner for consumer tests and sensory science services with particular expertise in the beverage sector. Because we are part of the DöhlerGroup, you always benefit from the unique wealth of experience of a provider with more than 15,000 food and beverage applications on the market.
As a member of the BVM (Berufsverband Deutscher Markt- und Sozialforscher, the German Professional Association for Market and Social Research), DGSens (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sensorik, German Society for Sensory Science), ESOMAR (European Society for Opinion and Market Research) and the DIN Standards Committee Sensory Science, we work in compliance with the latest standards and possess comprehensive resources of our own.
An essential factor in the sustainable market success of food and beverages is sensory science, meaning descriptive, sensory testing of products by trained expert panels.
Sensory & Consumer Science has access to more than 100 sensory science experts, including a large number of experienced application developers. They check all sensory dimensions of your products: appearance, odour, taste, mouthfeel and sound. The results are brought together in strictly objective and purely descriptive profiles. This allows us to clearly characterise and distinguish your test products.
Döhler Sensory Science offers methods for foods and beverages with widely varied tasks:
- Innovation development
- Recipe optimisation
- Cost-saving projects
- Sensory market screenings (taste landscapes)
- QS monitoring
- Shelf life tests
Methodology of Döhler Sensory Science:
- Difference tests
- Consensus profile in accordance with DIN 10967-2
- Conventional profile in accordance with DIN 10967-1
- Time intensity method
- TDS (Temporal Dominance of Sensations)
Resources of Döhler Sensory Science:
- Instant access to product-specific panels in a wide range of food and beverage categories
- Performance of tests under standardised conditions in specific, air-conditioned sensory booths
- Computer-aided data collection and processing with specially-developed sensory software
- Detailed statistical data analysis
With your brand and the positioning, packaging and colour of your product, you trigger very specific expectations in consumers. Döhler Consumer Science supports you in fulfilling these expectations with a harmonious multi-sensory product experience. After all, the ideal fit leads to long-term product success, a high purchase rate and loyal consumers.
We analyse consumer acceptance and emotions before, during and after product tasting. This way, you receive reliable and realistic information on how your products are assessed and perceived in comparison with benchmark products on the market. In our recommendations for targeted product optimisation, you benefit from our experience in sensory studies with more than 20,000 consumers and over 1,300 products.
Döhler Consumer Science supports you in the following projects:
- New product launch
- Innovation development
- Line extensions
- Market screening
- Product optimisation
Methodology & resources of Consumer Science:
- Combined product and concept tests
- Product and packaging tests
- Drinkability tests
- Online studies
- Home use tests
