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Ipsos has launched a Spanish language omnibus service, the Ipsos Hispanic Express Omnibus, billed as the only Hispanic Omnibus survey to start every week. Each wave consists of 500 interviews completed either in English or Spanish, according to respondents' choice. More
Ipsos North America has concluded the acquisition of media research specialist Monroe Mendelsohn Research (MMR), which it says will further strengthen its global media research team, particularly in the North American market. More
In the US, former TNS MD Amaury de Condé has joined Ipsos as SVP and MD of its Global Product Center; an international role with responsibility for the worldwide Ipsos Marketing Consumer Goods business. More
Ipsos Interactive Services (IIS) has appointed former NPD Senior VP Operations Jean Marie Davis as Vice President – Global Integration, based in the firm's New York office. More
Global group Ipsos has published results for the full year 2006 showing organic growth of 6.5%, above the industry average but below its own high expectations. Revenue increased 19.4% to Euros 857.3m, with the majority of the rise due to acquisitions. More
Two surveys out this week shed light on the world of online music. The technology is new – Ipsos says more and more Americans are trying mobile music downloads – but the content is often golden oldie, with Genesis taking the no.1 spot in Hitwise's UK online search chart. More
Ipsos has announced a successful first nine months of 2006 with organic revenue growth of 8% over the year earlier period, and overall growth of 24.9% to Euros 613.2m. Third quarter growth was slightly slower at 22% (organic 7%). More
Ipsos has announced the opening of offices in Egypt and Iraq, both located in the capital cities and both resulting from acquisitions. The global agency says this 'completes its geographical coverage through the Middle East and North Africa region'. More
Audience measurement partners Ipsos and The Media Audit have this week confirmed that they will start installing encoders for their phone-based measurement system in Houston radio stations in December, and will conduct an 'Expert Witness' test the same month, to help validate the methodology. More
Ipsos has confirmed its revenue for the first half of the year as Euros 407.7m, and announced a 36.2% rise in operating margin to Euros 32.7m and Group net profit up 35.7% to Euros 14.2m. Buoyant predictions are made for the next five years. More
Ipsos has agreed to acquire a minority stake in the Tambor Group, the 3rd largest survey-based research company in the Czech and Slovak markets; increasing to a two thirds holding by 2009. More
Ipsos Insight has announced a new product testing system, 'Product Precision', using tailored test designs to address business issues that arise throughout the product lifecycle. More
Ipsos has announced a number of senior promotions in its growing Western Business Unit in Canada. Promotions include Steve Mossop to President, Market Research Canada West, and Tim Olafson to President, Ipsos Observer. More
Canadian NRG Research Group has opened two new offices in Alberta, to be led by Derek Blair, formerly of Ipsos North America. Other new members of staff include food and drink specialist Greg Turner and consultant Rod Love, an expert on politics and the media. More
US consumer confidence rose in November following a substantial drop over the last few months. Four different confidence indexes - from TNS (for the Conference Board), Ipsos (for the Royal Bank of Canada), BIGResearch, and the University of Michigan - all report similar patterns of recovery. More
Ipsos has announced the opening of a new office in the Seattle area, its sixteenth location in the US. The company has a growing client base in the Pacific Northwest and the new office joins San Francisco, San Ramon, CA, and Vancouver, BC, as the other Ipsos West Coast locations. More
Use of online banking in the US has levelled off according to a new survey from Ipsos Insight. The study suggests that fears about identity theft, along with concerns that companies are selling records to third parties, are stalling growth in the market. More
Ipsos Media is breaking into the US with the launch of a survey to assess the media consumption and spending habits of the country's top business decision-makers. The new study, the USBRS, will use the same methodology as the company's BRS surveys in Europe, Asia, Australia and Japan. More
US consumer confidence fell to the lowest level since October 2003, according to the RBC Consumer Attitudes and Spending by Household (CASH) Index conducted by Ipsos. The decline is thought to be the result of worries about gas prices, job security and terrorism. More
Ipsos has recruited James (Jim) T. Smith as Chairman and CEO of Ipsos in North America. Smith, who joins from US agency Delve where he was Chairman and CEO, will also have a seat on the Ipsos Management Board's Executive Committee. He replaces Simon Kooyman, who is taking a sabbatical. More
Ipsos has appointed Fred Church as VP for the company's growing Health Practice in North America. Church, who has extensive experience of analysing direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising campaigns, will help develop products for the health and pharmaceutical industries. More
In the USA, Ipsos, in conjunction with polling partner The Associated Press, has announced it is adding a new weekly online omnibus polling tool to its twice weekly national telephone omnibus to meet growing demand from its customers for fast, reliable data. Ipsos is the only telephone omnibus provider with two weekday studies, as all other major omnibus providers rely on weekend surveys. More
Ipsos has announced the acquisition of two MR agencies in North America: Descarie & Complices and Shifrin Research Inc, based in Montreal and Manhattan respectively. More
John Carter has joined Ipsos' Consumer Products Division in New York as Vice President, from A&G Research, where he had been a Vice President for the past two years. Ipsos-Insight has also announced three promotions. More
Ipsos has announced the promotion of Mike Weisberger to head up the company's Behavioral Tracking Division as Senior VP, succeeding Lynne Armstrong who leaves to become a partner in specialist MR executive search firm The Somerset Group. More
Ipsos has appointed David Pring as Senior VP and General Manager of its Consumer Products Division in New York. Pring, who joins from Protocol Research Solutions (formerly CLT Research), where he was president, will now be responsible for providing strategic research solutions to East Coast CPG clients. More
Consumers in the US are more realistic about the state of the economy, with a narrow gap between expectations and assessments of the economy, according to Ipsos' National CASH Index Poll. Most are being cautious after a rollercoaster year, reflected in the movement of the Index, but high income investors are beginning to sound more bullish after a good quarter on the markets. More
Ipsos are the fastest growing market research firm in the US for the second year running, with US revenue growth of 14.8 per cent in 2001-2 and a total of 443 per cent between 1997 and 2002, according to the 'Inside Research' newsletter. More
Ipsos has been cited as the fastest growing market research company in the U.S. in the latest issue of the Inside Research newsletter. The company's U.S. revenues grew by 406% between 1996 and 2001, the newsletter reported, compared with the industry average of 66%. Ipsos now ranks 12th among the top 50 U.S. market research firms. More
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