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Section 06
Resources // WPP COMPANY CONTRIBUTORS
RESOURCES
Established in 1971, IMRB International, a member of the Kantar Group, is a pioneer
in market research services in Asia. IMRB's footprint extends across 53 offices in 18 countries spanning South Asia, Middle East, North Africa, South East Asia and Europe. With a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural workforce of over 1400 full-time researchers and analysts servicing clients, IMRB is at the forefront of research and consulting services. IMRB partners with its clients through the entire brand lifecycle by bringing together consumer research experts (IMRB One)
with sector and domain expertise from
its specialist units like Probe Qualitative Research (PQR), Customer Satisfaction Measurement & Management (CSMM), IMRB Kantar World Panel, Media, Retail, Digital, Social & Rural Research Institute (SRI) and B2B Research and Technology Consulting (BIRD). LIVELABS helps clients to innovate and develop new products and services. An eight-time winner of the MR Agency of The Year, IMRB is also accredited with the ISO 20252: 2012 Quality Certification.
www.imrbint.com
Thomas Puliyel
President Thomas.Puliyel@imrbint.com
J. Walter Thompson Worldwide, the world’s best-known marketing communications brand, has been creating pioneering solutions that build enduring brands and business
for more than 150 years. Headquartered
in New York, J. Walter Thompson is a true global network, with more than 200 offices in over 90 countries, employing nearly 10,000 marketing professionals. The agency consistently ranks among the top networks in the world and continues a dominant presence in the industry by staying on the leading edge—from hiring the industry's first female copywriter to developing award- winning branded content today. For more information, follow us @JWT_Worldwide.
www.jwt.com
Erin Johnson
Chief Communications Officer Erin.Johnson@jwt.com
We are the retail and shopper specialists. We are a leading retail and shopper insight, consulting and analytics and technology business, part of Kantar Group, the data investment management division of WPP. We work with leading brand manufacturers and retailers to help them sell more effectively and profitably. At Kantar Retail we track and forecast over 1000 retailers globally and have purchase data on over 200 million shoppers. Amongst our market-leading reports are the annual PoweRanking® survey and the Digital Power Study. Kantar Retail works with over 400 clients and has 26 offices in 15 markets around the globe.
www.kantarretail.com Bryan Roberts
Director of Retail Insights Bryan.Roberts@kantarretail.com
Kantar Worldpanel is the world leader in consumer knowledge and insights based on continuous consumer panels. Its High Definition InspirationTM approach combines market monitoring, advanced analytics
and tailored market research solutions that inspire successful actions by its clients.
Kantar Worldpanel’s expertise about what people buy or use - and why - is recognized by brand owners, retailers, market analysts and government organizations globally.
With over 60 years’ experience, a team of 3,500, and services covering 60 countries directly or through partners, Kantar Worldpanel helps brands grow in fields
as diverse as FMCG, impulse products, fashion, baby, telecommunications, and entertainment, among many others.
www.kantarworldpanel.com Ignasi Fernandez
Global Corporate Communication Manager Ignasi.Fernandez@kantarworldpanel.com
Kinetic is the global leader in planning and buying out-of-home media, and its mission is to pull forward, and make real the future possibilities of the world of out-of-home communications.
Kinetic is a WPP company and part of
the tenthavenue performance marketing division. Kinetic’s expertise and insight helps deliver solutions for clients that achieve ambitious brand and marketing goals.
In addition to its core business, Kinetic provides wide-ranging specialist expertise through its complementary service divisions including Aureus, Aviator, Kinetic Active, Kinetic Futures, Meta, Zone and
Hi Rezz. Kinetic employs over 900 professionals across 42 offices worldwide.
www.kineticww.com
Jennie Sallows
Head of Insight EMEA Jennie.Sallows@kineticww.com
International branding agency Lambie- Nairn believes that strong brands are
fluid, dynamic properties that evolve
and develop over time. For 40 years we have been creating dynamic brands that have reshaped categories and grown and evolved over time. In recent years we have extended our approach beyond just the creation of dynamic brands and into their ongoing management. Putting all this together, Lambie-Nairn offers a uniquely progressive, powerful and contemporarily relevant approach to building and maintaining our clients’ brands.
www.lambie-nairn.com
Jim Prior
CEO Jim@the-partners.com
A global leader in brand consulting and design, Landor helps clients create agile brands that thrive in today’s dynamic, disruptive marketplace. Landor’s
branding services include strategy and positioning, identity and design, brand architecture, prototyping, innovation, naming and verbal identity, research and analytics, environments and experiences, engagement and activation, and interactive and media design. Landor has 28 offices
in 22 countries, working with a broad spectrum of world-famous brands. Clients include Barclays, Bayer, BMW, BP, FedEx, GE, Intuit, Kraft Foods, Pernod Ricard, Procter & Gamble, Samsung, and Taj Group.
www.landor.com Trevor Wade
Global Marketing Director Trevor.Wade@landor.com
MEC is committed to growth. Growth for our people, our clients and our industry. MEC pushes the boundaries of what’s possible
in order to thrive in Digital / Mobile / Search
/ Social / Performance Marketing / Data / Analytics / Insight / Sponsorship / Branded Entertainment / Multi-cultural / Content / Retail and Integrated Planning. Our 5,000 highly talented and motivated people work with category-leading advertisers in 93 countries and we are a founding partner of GroupM. #dontjustlivethrive.
www.mecglobal.com
Louise Temperley
Managing Partner Louise.Temperley@mecglobal.com
MediaCom is one of the world's
leading media agencies. MediaCom is a people-driven agency; our People First philosophy makes us different from other media agencies. It means we focus on people: consumers, clients and staff. It means we look at all areas of consumers' lives, understanding the connections and implications of their world and how they as individuals interact with clients' brands.
Our services include media planning and buying, interactive planning and buying (including digital, direct and search), ROI research (encompassing direct response media), online/search engine marketing, consumer insights, media strategy and branded content. Specialist divisions include MediaCom Interaction and MediaCom Business Science.
www.mediacom.com Pauline Robson
Director - Real World Insight Pauline.Robson@mediacom.com
Millward Brown is a leading global
research agency specializing in advertising effectiveness, strategic communication, media and brand equity research. Millward Brown helps clients grow great brands through comprehensive research-based qualitative and quantitative solutions. Specialist global practices include Millward Brown Digital (a leader in digital effectiveness and intelligence), Firefly Millward Brown (our global qualitative network), a Neuroscience Practice (using neuroscience to optimize
the value of traditional research techniques), and Millward Brown Vermeer (a strategy consultancy helping companies maximize financial returns on brand and marketing investments). Millward Brown operates in more than 55 countries and is part of Kantar, WPP’s data investment management division.
www.millwardbrown.com
Travyn Rhall
CEO Travyn.Rhall@millwardbrown.com
Millward Brown Vermeer is the consultancy arm of Millward Brown, dedicated to unleashing purpose-led brand growth.
In today’s global and technology-enabled market, brands and businesses face unprecedented complexity, constant disruption and profound questions: What business are we in? Why do we exist? And how do we build our organization?
Millward Brown Vermeer is the only global marketing consultancy focused on the development and embedding of consumer insight-led marketing strategy, structure and capability.
Our fusion of practitioner and consulting experience means we provide whole-brain solutions to strategic marketing challenges, rooting our approach in consumer research, stakeholder understanding and financial analysis.
www.mbvermeer.com
Mario Simon
CEO Mario.Simon@mbvermeer.com
MindShare is a global media agency network with billings in excess of US$31.4 billion (source: RECMA). The network consists of more than 7,000 employees, in 116 offices across 86 countries
spread throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Each office is dedicated to forging competitive marketing advantage for businesses and their brands based
on the values of speed, teamwork and provocation. MindShare is part of GroupM, which oversees the media investment management sector for WPP, the world’s leading communications services group. Follow us on Twitter @mindshare and facebook.com/mindshare and LinkedIn. com/company/mindshare.
www.mindshareworld.com
Greg Brooks
Global Marketing Director Greg.Brooks@mindshareworld.com
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