Colombian Office for Sample Answers

UK-based sampling solutions firm Sample Answers is to open an office in Colombia, South America led by current MD Mark Dent, while Business Development Director Neil Whelpton will move into Dent's former role in the UK.

The new office, in Barranquilla, will serve as a sales office for Latin America. The firm already sells 'a lot' of Latin America data into the US but not that much to Latin America itself, and believes the move - which coincides with Dent's move to the country for personal reasons - will 'open up opportunities in what is one of the fastest growing economies in the world.'

Founded twenty years ago through a partnership with Chairman Tony Dent and Gwyn Redgers, Middlesex-based Sample Answers provides a full range of business and consumer samples to researchers in the UK and globally.

Following a merger last year with Whelpton's consumer and B2B list broking consultancy Neil Whelpton Associates (NWA), Sample Answers has seen its annual turnover return to more than £1m for the first time in three years.

On the back of this improvement, Tony Dent commented: 'While we appreciate there may not be many companies acknowledging the 'end of the recession', this growth and change of management has really buoyed Sample Answers.'

The firm has one other overseas office, in the Netherlands, and is online at www.sampleanswers.com .