Sponsors

MRS extends sincere thanks to our sponsors, who help make the conference possible.

Impact Week Principal Sponsor

A global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation, Capgemini is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of clients’ opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. Building on its strong 50-year heritage and deep industry-specific expertise, Capgemini enables organizations to realize their business ambitions through an array of services from strategy to operations. Capgemini is driven by the conviction that the business value of technology comes from and through people. It is a multicultural company of 200,000 team members in over 40 countries. The Group reported 2016 global revenues of EUR 12.5 billion. Visit www.capgemini.com

MRS Annual Conference Sponsors

Gold sponsors

Toluna is a leading provider of on-demand consumer insights, empowering companies to brainstorm ideas, uncover new business opportunities and get answers to questions in real time. With its innovative business concept, Insights On Demand™, Toluna is transforming the future of market research, making consumer intent instantly accessible and understandable for companies of all sizes across multiple industries.

Kantar is home to some of the world's leading research, data and insights brands. Individually, brands such as Kantar Millward Brown, Kantar TNS, Kantar Media, Kantar Worldpanel, Kantar Added Value and Kantar Futures are famous and highly respected experts in their fields. Collectively, they offer the most complete view of consumers – the way they live, shop, vote, watch and tweet – in over a hundred countries worldwide. For the benefit of our clients, Kantar connects these specialists as well as providing access to the wider WPP group of companies and other partners.

We are a customer consultancy. We help brands understand, and play into what matters to customers.

Quadrangle is an award-winning customer consultancy based in London. We help ambitious brands improve customer and commercial performance. Our role is to ensure brand decision-making, delivery and measures are driven by a deep, honest understanding of what matters to customers. We start from the view that customers create the value in brands; and that digital has further heightened the importance of this truth. Our work draws on our unique, 30-year experience across research, marketing, analytics and strategy consulting, and is underpinned by the attitude at the heart of Quadrangle: Entrepreneurial imagination. 

Lucid is the world’s largest audience platform for sourcing and understanding “human answers” -- real, deterministic data about human behavior at scale.

The company has built the largest and most powerful programmatic sample marketplace and has enabled brands, agencies, and partners to ask and answer more than 17 billion questions worldwide. Lucid delivers unprecedented access to consumers for data-driven decision-making -- about everything from marketing to product development -- in real-time. Lucid is headquartered in New Oleans with offices in London, New York, and New Delhi

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Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home Care, Personal Care and Refreshment products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. It has 169,000 employees and generated sales of €53.3 billion in 2015. Over half (58%) of the company’s footprint is in developing and emerging markets. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann’s, Lipton, Wall’s, PG Tips, Ben & Jerry’s, Marmite, Magnum and Lynx.

Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan commits to:

• Helping more than a billion people take action to improve their health and well-being by 2020.
• Halving the environmental impact of our products by 2030.
• Enhancing the livelihoods of millions of people by 2020.

Unilever was ranked number one in its sector in the 2016 Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In the FTSE4Good Index, it achieved the highest environmental score of 5. It led the list of Global Corporate Sustainability Leaders in the 2016 GlobeScan/SustainAbility annual survey for the sixth year running. Unilever was ranked the most sustainable food and beverage company in Oxfam’s Behind the Brands Scorecard in 2016 for the second year.

For more information about Unilever and its brands, please visit www.unilever.com. For more information on the USLP: www.unilever.com/sustainable-living/

Bronze sponsors

The leading provider of data collection and research services for your studies across the UK. ISO certified, we recruit for and diligently manage any kind of study, including online, on-phone and in-person solutions. We place your studies in our high-specification UK, European, and US facilities or in our partner facilities.



Cint is a software company developing technology to innovate the way insights are gathered. Cint specializes in API and SaaS solutions offering efficient, user-friendly tools to access online consumer panels, as well as panel management software. Cint's exchange platform is a fully transparent insights marketplace, brings together questions and answers from all around the world. Reach more than 40 million consumers in 80+ countries, all sourced via 1,500+ different panels owned by publishers, local media outlets, market research agencies and non-profits. www.cint.com

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Delegate bag sponsor

“Delivering data our clients can trust since 1997.”
We are experienced in all methods of data collection, and understand what the data is for and how it is used. We provide impartial advice on the most suitable methodology for our client’s needs. So if there is a better, faster, more cost effective way of doing things, we will tell you. And because we are at the forefront of technological innovations, we can offer new solutions that provide faster access to the data compared to the traditional methods.

Survey partner

Confirmit enables organisations to develop and implement Voice of the Customer, Employee Engagement and Market Research programmes that deliver insight and drive business change. Confirmit’s clients create multi-channel, multi-lingual feedback and research programmes that engage customers, empower employees, deliver a compelling respondent experience, and provide high Return on Investment.

Confirmit has a solid foundation of over 20 years’ experience in listening to your requirements and developing software for all sizes of Market Research organisations. As a result, we understand your business and offer solutions that allow you to deliver high quality, fast, and cost-effective Market Research results.

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Relaxation zone sponsor

An indulgent experience with RP Translate… you can sit back and relax when it comes to the Translation aspects of your global research. Thanks to our highly expert and award-winning team, we have been going above and beyond with our comprehensive Market Research language services for over 20 years, working towards our clients’ success. Find out what it’s like to have time to focus on what really matters in your research: consistent, accurate and actionable global insight.