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Elephants Can't Jump
Ensuring brand initiatives work in practice as well as in theory. To have marketplace impact, we believe every research assignment should consist of three elements consumer exploration or validation, within a competitive context, generating commercial outputs.
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Firefish Ltd
29 full time staff, operating in all corners of the globe, on all manner of projects. No methodology is squashed to fit. We approach each brief with fresh eyes and minds, to make sure you get the most out of your research, helping your brand move forward.
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Grass Roots
Grass Roots is one of Europe's largest performance improvement companies. Established in 1980, Grass Roots UK is the founding company of a group with offices and partners operating in 15 countries around the world.
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DIGITAL-MR
In addition to Social Media Research (Web Listening) DigitalMRs solutions also include community panels, access panels, Web usability and a distinct focus on qualitativeresearch online.
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An Introduction to Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world by area, has been inhabited since the Stone Age and it is believed that on its rolling steppes human beings first domesticated the horse. See full country profile.Latest Research News from Central Asia
1 current Central Asian job:
GOVERNMENT: Republic; authoritarian presidential rule, with little power outside the executive branch.
AREA: 2,717,300 sq km
POPULATION: 15,460,484 (July 2010 est.)
MAJOR LANGUAGE: Kazakh (State), Russian (Official)
Some business and general info
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Trade and Industry in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is also home to the largest tensile structure in the world (ie the world's tallest tent - see picture above right). Standing on a 200m concrete base, Khan Shatyr is also the capital's highest structure.
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Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world by area, has been inhabited since the Stone Age and it is believed that on its rolling steppes human beings first domesticated the horse.
The area was conquered by Russia in the 18th century, and Kazakhstan was the last Soviet republic to gain independence, on 16th of December 1991. The communist-era leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev, became the country's new president then an office he still holds.Kazakhstan's economy is larger than those of all the other Central Asian states combined, largely due to the country's vast natural resources and a recent history of political stability.
GDP: $182.3bn (2009) ($11,800 per ca'ita)
Religions Muslim 47%, Russian Orthodox 44%, Protestant 2%, other 7%
Currency: Tenge (KZT) (1 KZT = 0.0051 EUR)
Telephone Code: +7
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We can find no evidence of a MR Association in Kazakhstan. If we're wrong, please get in touch!According to the CIA World Factbook: Exports from Kazakhstan were worth $USD 43.96bn in 2009, and were made up of oil and oil products, ferrous metals, chemicals, grain, wool, meat and coal. Main export partners were China, Russia, Germany, Italy, Romania, France, Ukraine and Turkey. Imports for the same period were worth $USD 28.77bn, consisting of machinery and equipment, metal products and foodstuffs. Primary import partners were Russia, China, Germany and Ukraine.
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