Tawfeer for Business

Every UAE promo, measured — not just browsed.

Tawfeer reads every retail leaflet in the UAE and turns each offer into a structured record: brand, price, discount, page position and the exact printed area it occupies. This page explains what that data can tell a business — the same KPIs the promo-intelligence industry works with, read straight off the leaflet pages.

See the KPIs Grounded in research →
Live archive
235,364
priced ad blocks, individually measured
48 retail banners 1,272 leaflets 22 months
Who it serves

Who uses this kind of data

Leaflet monitoring is an established industry — Numerator and NielsenIQ run it in the US and Europe. Here is who works with this kind of data, and what they use it for.

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FMCG trade marketing

Proof of performance: did the retailer actually run the feature you paid trade funds for — on the page, at the size and depth agreed? Plus competitor promo tracking across all 48 banners at once.

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Retail category teams

Competitive intelligence: what rival banners feature this week, how deep they cut, and which categories they put on the cover. A shared measuring stick for leaflet-participation negotiations.

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Pricing & revenue teams

Discount-depth benchmarking against the whole market: where your promoted prices sit, which mechanics competitors favour, and how depth trends by category over time.

The metrics

Industry-standard KPIs, from block-level data

Every metric below is computed from individually measured ad blocks — every single offer on every page. The formulas are the same ones the established monitoring firms use.

Share of Voice

Available
your brand: 3 all offers: 9 SOV = 33%

Out of all the offers printed this week, how many are yours? The headline number of promo tracking, per retailer, category and week.

SOV = brand blocks / all blocks x 100
also called share of leaflet

Share of printed space

Available98% measured
your block its exact printed size, vs the whole page space = 25%

Not all features are equal: a quarter-page hero beats a thumbnail. We measure each block's printed area, so voice can be weighted by the space it actually bought.

sum of brand block area / flyer area
how the big monitoring firms weight it

Depth of discount

Available
-25% was 12.00 9.00 the printed "was" the promo price depth = 25% off

How deep the market cuts, by category and banner. Shoppers respond between roughly 10% and 30% off — we show who cuts inside that window and who wastes margin beyond it.

depth = (was - now) / was x 100
from the printed was/now prices

Promo pressure

Available
leaflet issues per retailer, per week 2W1 3W2 1W3 4W4 pressure rising

How hard each retailer is pushing: leaflet issues and featured offers per week, and how that pressure shifts around Ramadan, DSF and back-to-school.

blocks / banner / week; issues / period
how hard each retailer pushes promotions

Front-page share

Available
★ cover inside the cover slot = seen first, pulls traffic who wins it?

The cover is the best slot in the leaflet — it pulls shoppers in. Which brands and categories win it, at which banners, how often.

cover blocks / brand blocks x 100
who wins the cover spot

Price-signal profile

Available
SALE was 11.00 8.99 sale badge price anchor 9-ending all captured

Prices ending in .99, "was/now" anchors and SALE badges nudge shoppers on their own, regardless of the real discount. We profile how each banner plays these cues.

endings; anchors; badge incidence
how prices are made to look attractive

Share of printed space — your category, sample week

Illustrative output · area-weighted, one banner set
Your brand
31%
Competitor 1
24%
Competitor 2
18%
Competitor 3
12%
Others
15%
Sample rendering — figures illustrative, not a published measurement.

Depth of discount — distribution by banner

Illustrative output · share of blocks by depth band
< 10% off
22%
10–20% off
34%
20–30% off
27%
30–50% off
13%
> 50% off
4%
Consumer response saturates above ~20–30% depth — deeper cuts mostly spend margin.
Method

From printed page to measured block

01 · COLLECT

Every leaflet, every week

All UAE retail catalogues are captured as published — 48 banners, continuously since late 2024.

02 · READ

Block-level extraction

Each page is decomposed into ad blocks: product, brand, price, was-price, mechanic, badges — in English and Arabic.

03 · MEASURE

Commercial space

Every block carries its exact printed rectangle — the area and page position that weighted KPIs are built on.

04 · DELIVER

KPIs over time

The blocks roll up into brand, category and banner views by week — the KPIs explained above.

Grounded in research

Why leaflet data is worth measuring

  • Leaflets move volume: when a Dutch retailer stopped delivering unsolicited flyers, its sales fell — a natural experiment across real stores, not a survey Guyt, van Lin & Keller, Marketing Science 2025 (open access). Category studies put the lift high: featuring olive oil in a Spanish supermarket flyer roughly doubled its weekly sales Boto-García & Álvarez 2020.
  • In the Gulf it is the main event: ClicFlyer put 55% of GCC modern-trade sales on leaflet promotions, and McKinsey 40–45% of sales in the UAE and Saudi Arabia as promotion-driven.
  • Not every discount works: shoppers mentally discount the discount — a cut has to clear a threshold before intentions move at all, and going deeper past it buys progressively less. Knowing where your market sits protects the margin you give away Gupta & Cooper, Journal of Consumer Research 1992.
  • Share of voice is counted in ad blocks: the industry's published formula is one brand's ad blocks over all competing ad blocks — which is why we detect every block on every page and record its exact size, rather than counting offers Numerator Promotions Intel.
  • What we don't claim: leaflet data shows what was promoted, where and how deep. It does not measure store traffic or sales — and we never pretend it does.
  • Want the details? Every KPI on this page follows a published definition from the research above.

Next: a demo report

We are preparing a worked example — share of voice, share of space and depth benchmarks for one category across UAE banners, built from this archive, so you can see every KPI on real data.

Demo reportcoming soon
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