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25%

25% -- profit increase from retention increase for Businesses increasing customer retention rates by 5% (1990)

1990  · Bain & Company

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25%
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Data Vintage
1990
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Businesses increasing customer retention rates by 5%
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Bain & Company Primary Tier C
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Bain & Company · Original study ↗

Source reports a range: increasing customer retention rates by 5% increases profits by 25% to 95%; midpoint (60%) extracted. Attributed in the article to Bain & Company research (Reichheld retention studies, commonly dated to 1990 HBR/Bain publications through 2001). Blog post itself is undated vendor content.

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Businesses increasing customer retention rates by 5%: 25% profit increase from retention increase. Source: Bain & Company (1990). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/bain-customer-retention-5pct-profit-increase
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