COVID-19 (Corona)
Consumer habits tend to change over time, but the COVID-19 outbreak is forcing consumers to reconfigure their lives, their habits and their spending patterns at a speed and scale the world has never seen. Nielsen...
The Stay At Home Diary: week 1
Each week Respondi bring you The Stay at Home Diary – a diary of how people are behaving during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Stay At Home Diary is based on passive data which monitors panellists...
How consumer trends are evolving during the COVID-19 pandemic
With the current COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the planet, all our worlds are turned upside down as we are forced to live in different circumstances. Many of us will be under some degree of lock down...
Comparing COVID-19 in 2020 with SARS in 2003 – Cause and effect
SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) laid siege to the Greater China Region (mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, and Taiwan) from late March to June 2003. At the time I was managing director for TNS (Kantar)...
ESOMAR President address – It is time to maximise the potential of this amazing community!
As our societies define the new normal, it is important to understand citizens - their hopes, fears, worries and wishes....now - more than ever - we need to understand what people are needing, feeling, thinking,...
Strategic planning – through and beyond the pandemic
Pandemics are not new nor are the social and economic disruptions that ensue. Since the beginning of the 20th century there have been four novel virus strains that have led to global pandemics - 1918...