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80% -- new product failure rate for CPG industry (2021)

2021  · Harvard Business School

80% of the estimated 30,000 new products launched annually fail.

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80%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2021
Entity
CPG industry
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Source Trust
60
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Independence
30
Methodology
35
Freshness
95
Harvard Business School Primary Tier C
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Confidence: 47/100 Vintage: 2021 Channel: Common Crawl
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How CPG Marketing Can Use Content to Create Lasting Product Demand
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CPG industry: 80% new product failure rate. Source: Harvard Business School (2021). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/cpg-new-product-failure-rate
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