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Cornish Mutual have used PFA for various research projects over the years, including this project to quantify the market for their home insurance product...
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Cornish Mutual is a mutual organisation, meaning its customers, known as Members, own the company and are very much at the heart of everything it does.
The management team wanted to:
Although Cornish Mutual only operates in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset it competes with national insurers and needed to put these views in context nationally to assess overall market awareness and perceptions of home insurance generally.
PFA suggested a robust quantitative methodology consisting of three different surveys amongst over 1,500 people. Three different groups were surveyed; current Members to analyse the existing product attributes and better understand factors in the buying decision; a control survey of non-customers in the same rural geographical area and a national audience to quantify the wider market opportunity.
Cornish Mutual used the findings to inform the redevelopment of its home insurance product and feed into future marketing strategy.
It enabled Cornish Mutual to understand the, at times quite stark, differences between their existing Membership and potential new homeowners and the challenges they would face communicating to new target markets.
