Range review

How wide and deep are competitors' ranges?

A buyer meets a range, not a single product. For a company deciding what to add, drop or launch, the useful question is structural: how are competitors' assortments built, which variants and tiers do they carry, and where is a segment covered by few or by none?

Breadth and depthTiers and variantsSegment coverageGaps
The decision question

Where does the assortment have room?

We lay competitors' catalogues on one frame. Breadth counts the product families offered; depth counts the variants within a family; tiers show how entry, mid and premium positions are filled. Naming, specification sheets and catalogues are the main sources, with distributor and marketplace listings used to see which items are actively offered rather than only printed. The output is a range grid with the source for each cell and a short reading of coverage and gaps, labelled as inference.

A gap in a competitor's range may be an opportunity or may be a segment nobody serves for a reason. The review marks the gap and does not decide which.

What the range grid contains

What the range grid contains

Families and variants

Each product family is listed once with the variants that differ in a way a buyer would notice, such as size, material, capacity or configuration.

Tier structure

How a competitor stages entry, standard and premium positions, where those can be told apart from published material.

Active and discontinued items

Items present in a catalogue but absent from current listings are flagged, because a catalogue can stay online after an item is withdrawn.

Customer segments served

Whether a line is presented to household, trade or industrial buyers, as the competitor itself states it.

Limits

Limits

Public range only

Made-to-order items and customer-specific variants are not visible in public material and are recorded as unavailable.

No view on demand

Whether a segment would buy is not established. That is a market question and sits outside this review.

Step by step

A short run through the work

01

Agree the unit of comparison

A family, a use case or a price tier. Without a shared unit, ranges of different sizes cannot be set side by side.

02

Extract from primary documents

Catalogues and spec sheets first, then listings to confirm what is current.

03

Normalise and tag

Similar items are grouped under one label with the original names preserved, and the grouping is shown.

04

Read coverage

The grid is reviewed for thin and crowded cells and the open questions are written down.

The service

Competitor Research

Who it is for
Companies launching or repositioning a product who need to know who they compete with and how those competitors sell
The problem it solves
The competitive set is assumed rather than mapped and positioning decisions rest on guesses
What we need from you
  • product and positioning
  • market or markets
  • known competitors
  • what decision the research supports
How it works
  • scope agreed
  • competitor identification and mapping
  • offer, channel and positioning review
  • map and comparison delivered
What you receive
A competitor map with a profile of each competitor, a comparison of offers, channels and positioning, and a source log
Included
  • competitor identification and mapping
  • offer and range comparison
  • channel and positioning review from public material
  • gaps and open questions
  • method and limitations note
Not included
  • monitoring or scraping systems
  • strategy or market-entry decisions
  • forecasts
  • guaranteeing completeness of the competitor set
Timing
Confirmed when your request is accepted.
What LATYNEX does
  • agree the scope
  • map competitors
  • compare offers, channels and positioning
  • write up with sources
Price
Confirmed when your request is accepted.
Good to know

What this is, and isn't

Research reports what can be established from public and provided sources. It is not a guarantee about a counterparty's future conduct and not legal advice.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Does the review include prices?+

No. Prices are not part of the range review; a price benchmark is a separate research service.

Can you recommend which products to add?+

No. The review shows coverage and gaps. Product decisions remain yours.

How large a range can be reviewed?+

That is agreed at scope, including whether the review is made by family or item by item.

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No obligation. We read your request and reply with a straight answer.

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