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71 current Singaporean jobs including:
Senior Director / Managing Director, Singapore and China, £75–120,000 - (posted Feb 10 2012)
Qual SRE – Strategic Multi-Country Research, Singapore, $SG 3,000-4,500 x 13 months - (posted Feb 10 2012)
Qual RE / SRE - Strategic Multi-Country Research, Singapore, $SG 3,500-4,500 x 13 months - (posted Feb 10 2012)
Senior Client Director, Singapore; or Shanghai, China, c.$US 130,000 - (posted Feb 10 2012)
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Latest research news for Singapore:
Three New Asian Offices for Mintel
Market intelligence company Mintel has today announced the opening of three offices in the Asia Pacific region. Already open for business, the three are located in Mumbai, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. - (Jan 16 2012)
 Omniture’s Chua Joins Digital Agency XM
Former Omniture exec Lawrence Chua has joined WPP digital marketing agency XM Asia Pacific as Analytics Director in its strategy practice. He will be based in Singapore. - (Jan 16 2012)
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Country Profile
The Republic of Singapore is an island city-state located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. At 710.2 km2 (274.2 sq mi) it is the smallest nation in Southeast Asia but comfortably the largest of the world's three remaining sovereign city-states. In 1819 the British East India Company, led by Sir Stamford Raffles, established a trading post on the island, which was used as a port along the spice route. Singapore became one of the most important commercial and military centres of the British Empire, and the hub of British power in Southeast Asia. Singapore joined the United Nations and the British Commonwealth in 1965.
Since independence, Singapore's standard of living has risen dramatically. Foreign direct investment and a state-led drive to industrialisation have created a modern economy focused on industry, education and urban planning. Singapore is the 4th wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP (PPP) per capita.
Baring the blame You can be pulled up for any of 40,000 offences in Singapore. Among the things that can get you in to trouble are dropping litter, leaving still water lying about in your home or workplace, and failing to lock your bicycle when not in use. All of these misdemeanours have, however, been eclipsed by one Nick Leeson who managed to bring about the collapse of Barings Bank while making increasingly bad trades on Singapore's exchange, the SIMEX.
Research Industry
MR Association: Market Research Society Singapore
Chamber of Commerce: sicc.com
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The Market Research Industry in Singapore - Overview (from Esomar's Global Market Research Report, 2009) |
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Singapore's MR industry is ranked 41st in the world by market size, with a $USD 72m (or $USD 15.37 per capita) turnover in 2008. Ad spend in the same year was $USD 1,306m ($USD 279.78 per capita), making MR 5.5% of ad spend.
60% of Singapore's market research business comes from domestic and 40% from international clients. 25% of spending comes from b2b research, while 65% is consumer focused. 74% of research carried out is Quantitative, 20% Qualitative and 6% 'other'.
Source: ESOMAR
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Trade and Industry in Singapore - Overview |
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The main industries in Singapore are electronics, chemicals, financial services, oil drilling equipment, petroleum refining, rubber processing and rubber products, processed food and beverages, ship repair, offshore platform construction, life sciences and entrepot trade (source: the CIA World Factbook).
Wikipedia notes that Singapore has a highly developed market-based economy, which historically revolves around extended entrepôt trade. Along with Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, Singapore is one of the Four Asian Tigers.
The economy depends heavily on exports and refining imported goods. The manufacturing industry is well-diversified into electronics, petroleum refining, chemicals, mechanical engineering and biomedical sciences manufacturing. Singapore has one of the busiest ports in the world. Singapore is the world's fourth largest foreign exchange trading centre after London, New York City and Tokyo.
Singapore has been rated as the most business-friendly economy in the world, and has thousands of foreign expatriates working in multi-national corporations.
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Views from Singapore
- from researchers based in the country.
Want to do research across Asia? Jump ship to Singapore, where many global firms set up their hubs because they know they can attract employees and their families from all over the world, who want to live and work in Asia, but still want the comforts of the West. Not to mention that it is much easier to fly to China, India or Japan than from New York City! As a "hub" for many multi-national companies it is also a haven for doing research across Asia.
Asha Choksi, Sr VP, Research and Operations, Harris Interactive Asia.
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If you are a researcher in Singapore, in whatever capacity, then we would love to hear from you!
email me: laurence@mrweb.com
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