Trade promotion for consumer goods

Promotions that learn.

The agent-driven trade promotion platform for consumer goods. Conversational by default. Every campaign runs in WhatsApp, Viber and Messenger. Brand-funded, consumer-activated, merchant-reimbursed, self-optimising. Every redemption sharpens the next offer.

10M+
Unique voucher codes redeemed to date
100+
Products promoted across categories
10,000
Retail store universe served
Morinaga
Nestlé
P&G
01 · The problem

Three things are eating your trade promotion ROI.

Every cycle, the same structural problems make your trade spend less productive than the last. None of them get solved by another insights dashboard.

01

The retailer just took the shopper

Loyalty pricing in the UK (Clubcard, Nectar) and retailer-app gating in emerging markets put the consumer relationship in the retailer's hands. The brand funds the deal; the brand doesn't see the shopper.

Loyalty-gated pricing now runs across all of the big four UK supermarkets.
02

The highest-velocity channels are dark

UK convenience & independents. PH sari-sari and modern trade. Both are the channels that move the most product, and both have almost no SKU-level digital activation infrastructure.

UK convenience ≈ £47bn / yr · PH sari-sari ≈ 1.3M outlets
03

Attribution is still a guess

Trade spend flows out as off-invoice, listings, gondola ends, distributor incentives. Performance comes back as Nielsen lag and tradeshow anecdotes. Nothing closes back to the till at the level the brand can act on.

Industry rule of thumb: ~30% of trade spend is unattributed at brand level.
02 · The shift

Every promotion you've ever run produced data. Almost none of it made the next one smarter. NuSpring inverts that.

The old way
Brief an agency. Fund a coupon. Hope for redemption. Wait for Nielsen.
Linear. Manual. Lossy.
The retailer's way
Hand the budget to Tesco / Sainsbury's / Boots. Inherit their consumer view.
Cheap to start. Expensive to own.
NuSpring
Brand-owned, agent-orchestrated promotion that compounds across SKUs, retailers, and campaigns.
Each campaign sharpens the next.
03 · How the loop closes

One stack. Six stages. A closing loop, not a campaign waterfall.

NuSpring runs the full sequence (campaign creation through merchant payment) and turns every touch into a training signal for the agent layer that orchestrates the next round.

The NuSpring loop

Brand funds → Consumer acts → Merchant gets paid → System learns

v1 · execution stack
01

Campaign

Define SKUs, retailers, geography, budget caps, offer types. Live in hours, not weeks.

02

Target

Reach the right shoppers via brand-owned channels, social, CRM, retail apps. No Clubcard required.

03

Activate

Delivered in chat: WhatsApp, Viber, Messenger. Consumer consents to the brand and to NuSpring in the same conversation. Offer composed live by the agent.

04

Redeem

POS validation across multiples, convenience and independents. QR or code, with audit trail.

05

Pay merchant

Brand → merchant reimbursement runs through the platform's wallet layer. No reconciliation gap.

06

Learn

Behaviour, redemption, basket and channel all returned to the agent layer to retune the next campaign.

Sepanta agent layer, running across all six stages
Targeting agent
Picks audiences from first-party + channel signals. Avoids retailer-gated dependencies.
Offer composition agent
Assembles type / value / conditions per shopper segment, within campaign constraints.
Budget & pacing agent
Lives on live redemption data. Throttles or reallocates spend mid-campaign.
Fraud & abuse agent
Flags duplicate redemption, merchant collusion, voucher leakage in real time.
04 · The interface is a conversation

WhatsApp, Viber, Messenger. Not another app. Not another microsite.

The consumer doesn't install anything. They tap a link, open a chat with the brand, and the entire flow (consent, qualification, offer, voucher, redemption support, post-purchase follow-up) happens in messages. It's the channel UK shoppers already use, and it's the only one where consent feels natural rather than legal.

Consent · dual opt-in

The consumer consents to the brand and to NuSpring in the same conversation.

One conversational moment. Two relationships established. Both sides legally clean under UK GDPR and PECR. No modal stack, no fine print, no consent fatigue.

Channel · where shoppers already are

WhatsApp is daily for ~80% of UK adults under 55. Messenger covers a different segment. Viber adds diaspora and EE.

The brand doesn't ask the shopper to switch contexts, install an app, or learn a microsite. The campaign meets them in the inbox they already check.

Mechanic · agent-led, not form-led

The agent asks two questions, picks an offer, issues the voucher, all inside the chat thread.

The same thread handles redemption support, retailer wayfinding, and post-purchase follow-up. The brand keeps an opted-in conversation open for the next campaign.

Compounding · the inbox is the asset

Each consented conversation is a permission to talk again across SKUs, seasons and product launches.

This is what no retailer loyalty scheme gives the brand: a direct, ongoing, opted-in line to the shopper that the brand can use again without paying retailer media rates each time.

Your brandvia NuSpring · WhatsApp Business
WhatsApp
Today, 10:42
Hi 👋 We're running an offer this week. Want me to check if there's something for you?
Yes
Great. Quick check first. Happy to share your offer activity with us and with NuSpring so we can make the next one better?
Yes to both
Perfect. Here's your one-time offer at Tesco, Sainsbury's, or any participating convenience store.
£2.50 OFF · CODE 7H2-9F4-Q1
Redeemed at till · 12:18
Thanks for trying it 🙌. Was that the right one? Tap 1 yes, 2 no.
05 · Two market shapes, one platform

Same loop. Two market shapes it runs in.

The structural problem in consumer goods promotion is the same everywhere. The local friction, the channel mix and the regulatory frame change market by market. The United Kingdom and the Philippines are two very different shapes of the same problem. The platform is one stack.

United Kingdom

Where the retailer just took the shopper.

Loyalty pricing has shifted promotional power from the brand to the retailer. NuSpring is the brand-side answer: direct to the consumer, owned by the brand, distributed across our own UK surface.

Market shape
Concentrated. Big-four grocers + Boots + a £47bn convenience & independent sector with almost no SKU-level digital activation.
Wedge
Brand-funded activation that doesn't go through the Clubcard / Nectar layer. The brand keeps the shopper, the data, and the opt-in.
Channels
WhatsApp · Viber · MessengerWhatsApp daily for ~80% of UK adults under 55.
Distribution
Our own UK social & content surface. Agency partner network. Curated micro-influencer roster. Every brand campaign rides on all three.
In market
Active across grocery, convenience and independents. Multi-brand portfolio in flight.
Philippines

Where the digital activation layer doesn't exist yet.

The same fragmented retail structure that every Southeast Asian consumer goods brand struggles with, solved with the agentic layer built in from day one, not bolted on later. Run directly by NuSpring.

Market shape
Fragmented. ~1.3M sari-sari outlets plus modern trade (SM, Robinsons, Puregold, 7-Eleven, Ministop). High-velocity, low-infrastructure.
Wedge
The DVD / voucher playbook that's already proven across the region, but agentic and brand-owned end-to-end. The smart layer is the differentiator, not an add-on.
Channels
Messenger · Viber · WhatsAppMessenger and Viber are the consumer messaging defaults in PH.
Distribution
NuSpring direct. We operate the activation layer ourselves: brand relationships, creators, agency tie-ins built in-market.
In market
Active across modern and traditional trade. Multi-brand consumer goods campaigns running.

One platform across market shapes. The stack (agent layer, conversational activation, redemption, merchant reimbursement, learning loop) is identical wherever it runs. What changes is the local friction the loop removes, the channel mix it sits in, and the regulatory frame it operates under.

06 · Compliance

Designed inside the rules of both markets.

UK and PH promotion sit inside very different regulatory frames. NuSpring is built inside both, so legal isn't the team redesigning your campaign at the last step.

United Kingdom

UK promotion regulation, designed-in.

HFSS shapes what you can promote in food & drink. UK GDPR & PECR shape how you can reach the shopper. CAP & ASA shape what you can say.

HFSS
Per-shopper targeting inside opt-in messaging channels: the lane HFSS leaves open. Auditable targeting logic per campaign.
UK GDPR · PECR
Plain-language dual consent (brand + NuSpring) captured in conversation. In-channel withdrawal, audit trail per consumer.
ASA · CAP
Eligibility, expiry, redemption terms shown inline at consent. Full message history retained per campaign.
Philippines

PH promotion regulation, designed-in.

The Data Privacy Act (NPC) shapes how you handle shopper data. DTI promo rules shape what you can run. FDA-PH shapes how health products can be activated.

NPC · DPA 2012
Lawful basis captured per shopper in conversation, with right-to-withdraw exercised in the same channel. NPC-aligned data handling and retention.
DTI promos
Promo permit triggers, T&C disclosure and redemption rules built into the campaign workflow. Per-campaign documentation surfaced for filing.
FDA-PH
For OTC, supplements and health categories: claim handling stays inside FDA-PH approved messaging. Category-specific guardrails on the offer agent.
07 · What you actually get to measure

Trade marketing dashboards that map to outcomes, not activity.

Cost per redemption
£
Per SKU, per channel, per shopper segment.
Incremental sell-out
%
Vs. matched control set across stores.
Promo ROI
x
£ in / £ out, including merchant reimbursement.
Channel attribution
Source channel to till. Closed loop.
08 · Working with NuSpring

One platform. Five steps from brief to till. Closed loop, end to end.

A standard engagement that takes a brand from campaign brief to merchant reimbursement and back into the agent layer, typically inside a quarter.

01

Brief

Category, SKUs, retailers, geography, budget and outcome targets. We translate into a live campaign on the platform within days.

02

Channels

Acquisition via brand-owned digital, targeted social, and retail-app placement. Activation runs entirely in messaging (WhatsApp, Viber, Messenger) with dual consumer consent to the brand and to NuSpring. No retailer loyalty gate. No app install.

03

Mechanics

Vouchers, cashback, switching offers, bundles, composed dynamically per shopper segment by the offer agent. Merchant reimbursement runs through the platform wallet.

04

Measurement

Matched control sets across stores. Live reporting on incremental sell-out, redemption rates, channel ROI, and unit economics, visible from day one.

05

Compound

Each campaign feeds the agent layer. Targeting, offer composition, and pacing get sharper across SKUs, retailers and seasons. You build a learning asset, not a series of campaigns.

Take the next step

The retailer doesn't have to own the shopper. Run the loop on your terms.

NuSpring is a Goodfolio venture, built on Sepanta. Active with consumer goods brand partners across grocery, convenience, modern and traditional trade.

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