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Market research group Kadence International has announced that Aman Makkar, who has led its India business for twenty years, will be stepping down from the CEO role at the end of this month. More
Decision intelligence firm Morning Consult has appointed Matthew Hammon as Chief Growth Officer, leading the development of an AI-native marketing, communications and growth function. More
Global consumer intelligence group NIQ has launched a new feature called Survey Groups, within its NIQ Discover platform. The upgrade promises users more insight into the reasons behind changes in their markets. More
Retail data and customer loyalty pioneer dunnhumby is getting a new Chief Executive: Jamie Samaha will take over from 20th July, succeeding Josh Bottomley, who has decided to step down. More
In St. Louis, USA, research firm Povaddo has launched the Povaddo Panel Omnibus promising clients an efficient, cost-effective way to access insights from public policy professionals across the US and Europe. More
Insights, design and strategy group Material has appointed Ranjan Kalia as CFO, as the firm looks to scale its global capabilities and increase investment in AI. More
Ohio-based Prosper Insights & Analytics has launched an automated version of its Prosper Model Factory, built on Amazon SageMaker and promising to dramatically simplify and accelerate predictive model development. More
Borderless Access has appointed James Ingram as SVP Business Development, with a remit to advance the company's first party data and customer access sales strategy across consumer, B2B, healthcare and specialist audience segments. More
Verian, previously known as Kantar Public, has promoted Lithuania CEO Haroldas Brozaitis to the new role of Chief AI and Transformation Officer; hired Gareth Schnehage as CFO; and given new roles in the UK to Craig Watkins, Ben Humberstone and Ed Dunn. More
Global consumer intelligence firm NIQ has announced revenue of $1,072.7 million for the first quarter, a reported increase of 11.1% increase, with organic growth of 5.1% at constant currency. Adjusted EBITDA rose 19.1% to $224.8 million. More
Albertsons Media Collective, a division of the US grocery chain, has this week launched a 'Lifetime Value' (LTV) measurement framework, to help advertisers assess the long-term value of retail media campaigns. More
Nashville, TN-based Optura, which helps healthcare clients measure and optimise the ROI of their AI investments, has announced $17.5 million in Series A funding, with which to continue its own investment in expanding AI capabilities, platform teams and LLM partnerships. More
Healthcare payer intelligence specialist Anomaly has secured $17 million in new funding, doubling its total raised to date. More
MD Tom Johnson has been promoted to CEO at UK-based trend tracker and insight agency Trajectory, after more than sixteen years at the company. More
Giulia Tagliaferri has joined the Public Affairs of Ipsos in the UK, as Head of Behavioural Science. She joins from innovation charity Nesta, where she spent more than seven years in the Behavioural Insights Team, latterly as Head of Quant and then Head of Evaluation. More
NIQ has announced and expanded partnership between its Brandbank unit and product discovery and sourcing platform RangeMe. The new deal enhances the platform's verified product data, helping retail buyers 'identify innovation' with greater speed and clarity. More
Inlightened, a tech-enabled platform giving access to a vetted network of healthcare professionals, has appointed Rob Ramirez as Head of Strategy. The firm is based in Boston, US. More
Ipsos has promoted Lisa Gudding to Chief Growth Officer, U.S. A Board member of the Insights Association, she is promoted from President, Strategic Growth. More
Global consumer intelligence group NIQ has launched Precision Solutions, a solution aiming to help brands and retailers make more precise and localized decisions. Initially the service is available in the US, and the company says it will 'evaluate' this before rolling out elsewhere. More
Walmart Data Ventures, the retail giant's insights and analytics division, is launching Scintilla Media Data Feed, a new API allowing advertisers to securely share Walmart first-party operational and retail data through scalable API access with their agency and tech partners. More
London-based independent social and market research agency IFF Research has announced 22 promotions, including Alex Pearson, Catherine O'Driscoll, Clare Palmer and Helen Greevy to Research Director level. More
Former Nielsen Australia MD Monique Perry is the new CEO of consumer advocacy group Choice, six months after she and her husband were dismissed from the ratings giant. More
In Rochester, NY, healthcare insights firm KJT has announced the appointment of Jason Solack as Senior Vice President of Operations, leading the group's operations strategy and execution. More
Frankfurt, Germany-based risk intelligence specialist QuoIntelligence GmbH has closed a EUR 7.3 million Series A financing round. Funds will be used for European market expansion, product development and team growth. More
Ipsos has unveiled a new 'vision' for qualitative research, combining AI and human inputs and delivered via three modules within its qual division Ipsos UU: Dynamic Digital Twin Communities; AI-Powered Moderation; and the EDGE Framework, which investigates extreme and unusual behaviour. More
London-based Humankind Research, which specialises in research for positive social impact, has launched a new participant recruitment service called HumanFIND, focused on 'bringing underrepresented voices into qualitative research.' More
Ipsos has reported first quarter revenue of EUR 554.9 million, down 2.4% from a year earlier and representing organic decline of 1.4%. Despite this, it has confirmed its targets for growth in 2026 as a whole, with a number of positives including a strong order book and recoveries in key sectors. More
In the US, healthcare intelligence company Konovo has partnered with life sciences strategy consulting firm Litmys, promising to help clients make 'earlier, smarter and more commercially informed' decisions on R&D investment and clinical development. More
In Austin, Texas, b2b research recruiter Emporia Research has announced a collaboration with healthcare market data and analytics firm Definitive Healthcare, enhancing its targeting capabilities in the sector. More
Online narrative and threat monitoring specialist PeakMetrics has closed a $6 million Series A round of funding, with which to further development its product and drive expansion. More
San Francisco-based AfterQuery has completed a $30 million Series A fundraising round, valuing it at $300 million. The firm taps a network of nearly 100,000 experts from a range of professions, encoding their knowledge into a dataset for use by its customers, which include all the major AI labs. More
US-based market research consultancy Smarty Pants has launched GENspiration, a series of free live focus group sessions promising attendees better understanding of consumers in a different generation each month, beginning with Baby Boomers on 14th April. More
Former Amazon HR and AI leader Hélène Bouffard has joined Circana as Chief People Officer. More
Packaging intelligence and point of purchase specialist Behaviorally has opened a technology hub in Manila, to be known as myB Hive. The firm says the new office is purpose-built as a strategic hub for the development and operations of its recently launched myBehaviorally platform. More
NIQ is promising clients monthly visibility into packaging performance across materials, formats and pack configurations with the launch of Packaging Strategic Planner Global Solution (SPG). More
US life sciences research software company PetaSight Inc. has acquired Babbage Insight Two Inc., which develops technology for business insight generation and signal validation. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. More
Pharma data giant IQVIA has unveiled a unified agentic AI platform, IQVIA.ai, promising to 'transform' how life sciences organizations operate, innovate and make both clinical and commercial decisions. More
Marcoms group Stagwell, owner of the Harris Poll and Harris X brands, has this week reported annual revenue up 2% to $2,909 million, for the full year 2025; and adjusted EBITDA of $422 million, up 1%. More
Productivity Bargain, a company aiming to help client firms tackle performance and burnout challenges, has appointed Ed Steiner as a Consultant. He rejoins his former Kantar colleague Anne Rayner, who is the company's founder. More
Life sciences marketing agency ramarketing has completed the acquisition of North Carolina-based ISR Market Research, which provides syndicated and custom MR for the pharmaceutical outsourcing market. More
In the US, professional body The Insights Association has warned that proposed changes to the 2026 Census Test, one of the key studies preparing for the country's decennial Census in 2030, risks massive inaccuracies which will make it 'a huge waste of resources.' More
Applied behavioral science agency BEESY has made three new appointments: Jeremy Winget as Senior AI Engineer, Victoria Saba as Senior Behavioral Science Associate, and Abigail Pais as Operations Associate. More
Retail and consumer intelligence provider Circana has unveiled Complete Why, an analytics solution based on POS data and giving CPG manufacturers rapid insights into the true drivers of sales performance. More
London-based See Research has a new sister company in shopper and NPD specialist Ink Research, following the acquisition of the latter by See's owner Holan Consulting. The buy brings together qual and quant expertise and teams, although both brands will be retained. More
London-based opinion and market research firm Thinks Insight & Strategy has been acquired by Montreal, Canada-based holding and management company Avenir Global. More
In Ghent, Belgium, EyeSee has launched a predictive pack screening solution called PackSee.AI, promising users the ability to move faster, test more options and reduce risk before full validation. The tool delivers predictive insights in around 48 hours. More
In Chicago, consumer intelligence provider NIQ has announced the launch of 'Early Market Read', a new US market intelligence product giving data on weekly sales performance as little as two days after the week's close. More
New York-based insights and behavioral science consultancy Integro, a specialist in the healthcare sector, has promoted Kristie Boland to Partner. More
US-based healthcare intelligence company Konovo has appointed former Oracle, Kantar and Sermo exec Jessica Santos as Chief Compliance & Privacy Officer. More
US-based point of purchase insights specialist Behaviorally has launched Studio B, a new pack design intelligence solution combining consulting expertise, Generative Design and Predictive AI, to help accelerate and optimize the creation of packaging. More
Global consumer intelligence company NIQ has announced revenue of $4.2 billion for the full year 2025, representing organic, constant currency revenue growth of 5.7%. Adjusted EBITDA rose 23.8% to $916.5 million. More
Accenture Ventures, the consulting giant's investment arm, has given its backing to Profitmind, an agentic AI decision intelligence platform built for retail teams, as part of a $9m seed round. The funds will fuel global scaling of the platform, recruitment and further extension of platform capabilities. More
US-based ad platform Infillion, the company that bought MediaMath in 2023, has announced the acquisition of veteran purchase intelligence company Catalina. Financial terms were not disclosed. More
Following last week's addition of OpinionWay as its representative in France, the Worldwide Independent Network of Market Research (WIN) has added SWG as member in Italy. More
In the UK, Potentia Insight has appointed former GfK and Savanta employee Ben Hunt as Sales Director. More
In London, research and analytics firm Phronesis Partners has appointed Massimiliano Sarracino as EMEA Sales Director, supporting its expansion across the region. More
In the UK, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has given more details of its ongoing program to focus in on essential, high quality economic and social statistics for the country's decision-makers - also described as a 'drive to put quality over quantity.' More
Data collection and MR consulting firm High Beam Global (HBG) has appointed former Dynata exec James Weatherbed as Director of Business Development and Account Management. More
In Rochester, NY, healthcare insights firm KJT has announced the integration of its Sparq Intelligence solutions into the KJT brand, bringing AI-supported qualitative and predictive capabilities directly into its core solutions. More
Kantar has appointed Sam Rihani as Managing Director of its business in Sweden, based in Stockholm and effective immediately. More
Manchester, UK-based MR operations support specialist Omnisis has enhanced its data collection capabilities with an upgrade to its PackSpin survey question type. The tool now allows participants to move, zoom in, and annotate 3D shapes and packaging. More
In Chicago, consumer data giant Circana has appointed new Board members: Brian Cornell, Executive Chair of Target Corp.; Lauren Cooks Levitan, ROOT co-founder and Lead Independent Director at e.l.f. Beauty; and Rohit Prasad, former Head of Artificial General Intelligence at Amazon. More
Predictive audience intelligence company Wiland has launched RetailSignals, the latest in its MarketSignals family of solutions, promising retailers help in tapping real-world consumer spending data to fuel acquisition, retention and growth. More
In Raleigh, NC, USA, L&E Research has announced the appointment of longtime Procter & Gamble employee Andrea Swinicki as Research Design Engineer. More
YouGov has launched an AI-powered qual tool called BrandIndex Voices, which collects and analyses consumer conversations on a quant scale to reveal why brand perceptions change. More
Manchester, UK-based pharma insights firm Beyond Blue has hired Kristina DiPietrantonio as Head of its Strategy division, working to bridge the gap between insight and real world execution. More
In the US, healthcare intelligence company Konovo has announced the acquisition of Rare Patient Voice (RPV), which recruits patients with rare, chronic and complex conditions for participation in market and UX research, as well as clinical trials. More
In the US, biopharma-focused behavioral-science research and tech firm BEESY has received a minority investment from Denali Growth Partners (DGP), allowing it to continue investing in product innovation, and accelerate its growth across new geographies and therapeutic areas. More
US-based Sago Health has rebranded as TriVoca Health, reflecting 'a continued commitment to helping healthcare companies hear from patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals' - three voices. Sago sold the division six months ago. More
Birmingham, UK-based social research agency M.E.L Research has strengthened its evaluation capability and face-to-face fieldwork delivery with the appointments of Dr Bianca Bailey Wilson as Head of Evaluation and Amanda Brightman as Field Team Manager. More
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