MMR Group

August 25 2010

UK-based food and drink market research specialist MMR Group has hired eight new recruits in August, including Yvonne Vice who joins fieldwork arm UKFS as Senior Project Executive, with thirty years’ market research experience gained at BMRB and Millward Brown. Frayni Jones takes up the post of Research Assistant, to provide administrative support to the research team. She recently returned from travelling and working in Australia. The Group’s healthcare specialist HRW (Healthcare Research Worldwide) has hired Peter Glover as Trainee Research Executive. He holds a degree in the biology of fertility and embryo development from University College, London. At MMR’s online research division Qubiq, Jason Espin joins as Trainee Survey Creator in the programming team, after graduating from Aberystwyth University with a degree in Business Information Technology. In addition, four graduates join the group’s consumer insight and sensory specialist agency MMR Research Worldwide as Trainee Research Executives. James Gater joins with a degree in Food and Nutrition from Sheffield Hallam University. As part of his studies, Gater undertook work placements as a sensory researcher at Unilever Research UK and the Centre for Food Innovation. His new role will be divided between consumer and sensory work, and will involve close interaction with MMR Research Worldwide’s Sensory Science Centre based at Reading University. John Barratt graduated from Lancaster University with a degree in Management, spending a placement year working in the market intelligence team at BMW. Sarah Mole is a product design graduate from Nottingham Trent University, where she completed a placement year in an interior design company and a bespoke kitchen design firm. Sarah Lewis-Bennion recently graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages, French and German. With a year spent in Germany working for Siemens as a translator, Lewis-Bennion is fluent in German with conversational French skills. Web site: www.mmr-research.com . Printer-friendly version of this article. Email this article to a friend. Register for News emails