SAMRA Elects New Council

SAMRA, the Southern African Marketing Research Association, welcomed in its Council for 2006/7 at its Annual General Meeting in Johannesburg this month. Markinor's Shirley Benney assumes the role of Chairman while Leonie Vorster is Chair Elect.

Both have played important roles in the association in recent times, with Benney heading up SAMRA Corporate while Vorster has been working on the development of a professional accreditation process. The full membership of the incoming committee is as follows:

• Immediate Past Chair: Schalk van Vuuren
• SAMRA Corporate: Lydia Rolando
• Membership: Mluleki Ncube
• Fieldworkers Forum: Lize Grobler
• Accreditation: Alison Ringer
• Code of Conduct: Maurice Britten
• Training & Education: Hendrik van Vuuren
• SSETA: Jude James
• RUF: Ineke Prinsloo
• Communication: Suzanne Broadley
• Journal: Dion van Zyl
• Yearbook: Maurice Britten
• Convention: Suzanne Broadley
• Cape Town Branch: Beverley Buchanan
• Johannesburg Branch: Trevor Hanekom
• KwaZulu Natal Branch: Peter Highley
• Pretoria Branch: Deon Tustin
• Namibia Branch: Tony Hoft.

Benney, who has been with Markinor for 22 years, leading its IT and data processing teams before becoming MD in 2002, comments: 'Having a strong council will hopefully facilitate SAMRA achieving its goals which include influencing and enforcing research quality, promoting research careers and finalising a relevant Charter for our industry.'

SAMRA is online at www.samra.co.za .

All articles 2006-23 written and edited by Mel Crowther and/or Nick Thomas, 2024- by Nick Thomas, unless otherwise stated.

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