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Kantar has announced that Mark Inskip, will take the role of Global CEO of its consulting business The Futures Company, from February. He replaces Will Galgey who is moving to the role of CEO of TNS UK. More
WPP division Kantar Health has acquired Brazilian healthcare research company Evidências, for an undisclosed sum. More
Arthur H. White, co-founder of the research business that became Yankelovich, has died aged 90, in Stamford, Connecticut, from complications following a stroke. More
Strategic insight and innovation consultancy The Futures Company has appointed multicultural strategist and lifestyle trendwatcher Valeria Piaggio as VP of Multicultural Insights for its U.S. Yankelovich Monitor. More
UK based consultancy The Futures Company is opening an office in Shanghai, its second Asia-Pacific location after Singapore - and appointed former Ogilvy & Mather exec Kunal Sinha to lead it. More
WPP, Kantar and TRA have jointly agreed not to go to court over the last outstanding claim in their three-year legal wrangle. A case which began with allegations of stealing trade secrets and deterring potential investors was concluded with the payment of one dollar in nominal damages over breach of contract. More
The Futures Company has re-launched its US Yankelovich MONITOR, adding new content to provide what it describes as the first unified multicultural and general market consumer insight service in the marketplace. More
Kantar Health has launched PINNAKLE, billed as an integrated, holistic brand marketing solution helping pharma companies maximise the success of their brands and tap into 'unrealized brand opportunity'. More
Strategic insight and innovation specialist The Futures Company has strengthened its Asia Pacific team, based in Singapore, moving Radha Patel from the London office to the role of Director of Consulting, and hiring Tara Hirebet as Senior Consultant. More
US District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin has thrown out TRA's patent infringement claims against Kantar for the second time in less than two months. More
UK-based insight and innovation consultancy The Futures Company has opened an office in Singapore, which will act as a hub for clients across Asia Pacific. More
In the US, TRA has asked the judge who threw out the patent infringement part of its claim against Kantar to reconsider, claiming that she had granted its earlier request for an oral argument but then issued last week's summary judgment ruling before it had taken place. More
A US judge has thrown out the patent infringement part of TRA's claim against WPP firms including Kantar, over the companies' abortive merger talks and the subsequent launch of competing product RapidView. However, TRA's claims over breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty continue. More
In the UK, insight and innovation consultancy The Futures Company has promoted Deputy MD Henry Tucker to the role of EMEA Managing Director, replacing Sarah King who is transferring to a new position at Kantar. More
WPP's consumer insight and data arm Kantar has acquired Bangladesh-based full service agency Sirius Marketing & Social Research, which specialises in customised social, media and consumer research. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. More
WPP's insights, information and consultancy group Kantar has combined its digital insights firms Dynamic Logic and Compete, in a bid to help advertisers, agencies and publishers increase marketing effectiveness and drive brand growth. More
WPP insight arm Kantar has filed a request in the US District Court in Manhattan to dismiss patent infringement claims made by media measurement firm TRA before they go to tribunal. More
Kantar companies Dynamic Logic and Compete have teamed up with online media viewability firm Double Verify to launch a tool called Advance, which combines exposure metrics and effectiveness measures in a unified reporting and optimization system. More
Kantar Media has won a multi-year contract to measure subscriber behaviour for Indian Direct to Home (DTH) TV provider Tata Sky. The service, launching later this year, is billed as the first Return Path Data audience research service in India. More
WPP-owned Kantar Health has launched a new solution called 'CancerMPact Future Trends and Insights', which can be used to explore the potential changes in oncology treatment practices in the US, Western Europe and Japan. More
The Cambodian Broadcasting Service has awarded Kantar Media a two year contract to conduct television audience research, which will include recording the viewing habits of more than 500 homes in urban areas such as Phnom Penh, Siem Riep and Battambang. More
Audience measurement specialist Kantar Media has announced a data sharing agreement with 'social TV' analytics company SecondSync. More
Kantar is to integrate youth research unit TRU into another of its subsidiaries, insight and innovation consultancy The Futures Company. More
In the UK, three former leaders of The Futures Company (TFC) - Crawford Hollingworth, Sian Davies and Sarah Davies - have launched a global insight and research consultancy called The Behavioural Architects. The trio are also planning to open a second office in China later this year. More
WPP's global trend research firm The Futures Company has appointed former COI brand and innovation specialist Phil Soanes as a Director in the UK. More
WPP's global trend research firm The Futures Company has re-appointed former Henley Centre employee David Teague as a Director in the UK, leading its 'future-facing' quantitative team. More
WPP-owned global trend research consultancy The Futures Company has appointed former Orange exec Patrick Harris as a Director in its UK operation. More
Kantar-owned global trend research consultancy The Futures Company (TFC) has partnered with sister firm TNS to serve multinational and local clients in India. More
WPP-owned global trend research consultancy The Futures Company (TFC) is relocating Lloyd Burdett to its New York office, where he will take up the position of Head of Consulting in the US. More
The Futures Company has hired two Senior Vice Presidents in the US: Steve Levine as SVP, Future-Facing Research & Consultancy and Christine Baskin as SVP, Research & Consulting. More
WPP-owned global trend research consultancy The Futures Company (TFC) has appointed a new management team following the resignation of its CEO Sian Davies, Executive Chairman Crawford Hollingworth, and Global MD Sarah Davies. More
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