Full Profile : Warwick Equest provides robust, high quality market research that delivers clear and insightful results – at exceptionally competitive prices.

We are a full service agency, offering a comprehensive range of traditional and innovative research techniques, methodologies and practices. We provide a fully bespoke service to exactly match your needs, budgets and timescales, and we love a challenge.

We were established in 1990 and now count some of the world’s largest brands as our long term clients, including P&G, Lidl, Unilvere, RoDO, Parker Foods and Sunderland and Richmondshire Councils. These clients use Warwick Equest to stay in touch with their consumers on an almost daily basis, relying on us to provide critical information about the buying habits, needs, preferences and opinions of both current and prospective customers.

In the past 12 months alone we have completed more than 8,000 individual product tests, interviewed around 10,000 consumers and received the answers to over a quarter of a million questions - and we don’t just report back, we analyse and interpret, delve and discuss to find results that will both surprise and challenge you.

We manage a network of over 500 qualified and experienced field interviewers, providing full UK coverage and they operate to the highest industry standards, with ISO9001:2000 and BS7911 accreditation.

We have a flexible, creative approach and a passion for delivering pragmatic and actionable results.

Services : We conduct face-to-face interviews, online research, postal and email surveys, telephone research, focus groups, in-depth interviewing, panel recruitment, product tests, hall tests and in-home placements.

Testimonials :
"Warwick Equest were very responsive to our initial brief, ensuring they fully understood what we were trying to achieve before quoting. Not only was their quote very competitive, we were very pleasantly surprised to see just how much our research budget could achieve and how pro-active Warwick Equest were. The project was executed to agreed schedule and we were delighted with the quality of results we obtained, which provided valuable insight and steer to a number of areas of our product development programme."

Marketing Controller, RoDO Group

"The Committee wish to thank you for a job well done. The help and advice given from start to finish was excellent. The resultant report you presented was very comprehensive and enlightening and gave a sound basis for the recommendations as well as an innovative idea to explore work in partnership with the National Park. All recommendations were approved by the decision makers."

Resource Services, Richmondshire District Council

"Warkwick Equest offered a friendly, professional service. The interviews were carried out as requested, to a high standard and on-time."

Performance Improvement Team, Sunderland City Council

Full Profile : Lake Communications is a full service research agency providing both quantitative and qualitative research using all interviewing media.

Lake Communications was previously known as Sample Surveys and was one of the largest independent market research companies before its sale to Aegis Marketing and its re-branding as Synovate one of the largest research groups in the world.

Lake has a national field force of 500 interviewers which are led by a team of 14 local area supervisors. Our interviewers are trained to either IQCS or the ISO 20252 international standard.

We also specialize in online research and have extensive online software. We work with professionally recruited panels of respondents as well as affinity groups and membership panels. We use mixed media whenever it is advantageous to do so, particularly online quantitative followed by CATI to selected individuals. We can import and export raw data for analysis as well as run comprehensive reports on the results.

We also conduct and project manage research for other market research agencies and consultancies and offer data only services if required. In addition we conduct depth interview, group discussions, and deliberative or collaborative depths and groups involving more than one ‘stakeholder’. We also have considerable experience in incorporating a qualitative element into conventional quantified surveys.

Services : Online surveys, Face to Face, Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI), Focus Groups, Mystery Shopping, Postal questionnaires, research consultancy, analysis, reporting

Full Profile : ibd's Business Consultants specialise in helping small and medium sized businesses. Each Business Consultant has extensive experience, coupled with deep business skills, enthusiasm and if necessary support from a rapidly growing UK and international network. With over 300 Advisers, you are never far away from the support and problem solving power that our network provides.
Whatever you need, we help by:
• carrying out diagnostic reviews to analyse the causes of problems
• delivering practical, independent advice to solve problems quickly
• delivering ongoing support
• identifying causes of problems rather than dealing with symptoms
• injecting new ideas to keep your business sharp
• providing strategic advice for the longer term development of the business
• rolling up our sleeves and getting involved and giving the management team the support they so often lack
We are focused on adding real value to the business that you have created. And we don’t stop thinking about your problem when we leave your office. Our ability to call on other specialist skills from within our network means that whatever the question, we can quickly find the answers and expertise that your business needs.

Services : ibd can help with every aspect of your business:

• business growth

• business efficiency

• business control

• general management

• interim management

• management consultancy

• mentoring

• non-executive directorship

Testimonials :
Practical, straight talking and affordable
"ibd is the most practical, straight talking and affordable resource that I have found for small businesses. It operates a network of Business Advisers across the country that specialise in small to medium size businesses and nothing else."
"It ensures that all its advisers have real-life experience of running a business. This means that they can roll their sleeves up and help, if you want them to, as well as offering advice. It also means that behind each Adviser is a central resource, with expertise in everything from raising funding to avoiding insolvency".
"ibd will give you a free one-hour Business Health Check, and they are flexible in how and when they charge for their services".
Anna Hopkiss, Teach Yourself Books, "Small Business Health Check"

Professional
I would like to thank PH and PK for the professional manner in which you delivered the two day "Business Plan Rectification" workshop. It was exactly what was needed and was of great value.
As you are aware I have spent a long period of time researching and writing the Lifestyle Vouchers International Business Plan and had been assisted by a number of other Business Advisers along the way. You, however brought with you considerable business experience and have developed the Plan into a document that can be implemented in the real world and one that gives us confidence for the future.
Neil Rinaldi, MD - Lifestyle Vouchers International Ltd