In the UK, fieldwork division ICM Direct has expanded its Bedford Call Centre by 20 percent, responding to 'increased client demand for fieldwork services'.The Call Centre now boasts 120 'state-of-the-art fully web enabled stations'; and the company has also added new B2B research expertise for clients in a number of commercial sectors as well as government, health and education.
The firm says the latter move reflects a much broader range of work carried out through the centre in the past year. It has also established a number of 'dedicated panel/community moderation stations', in response to the growing popularity of online brand communities.
Operations Director Neil Sykes comments: 'Last year we saw a very significant rise in demand for our services as clients looked to well-established, full service providers to fulfil their fieldwork services. Over the years we have built a very solid reputation for quality fieldwork and we are now reaping the rewards of the investments we have made both in people and state-of-the-art technology.'
ICM Group is part of British group Creston. Last month, sister company ICM Research launched a new polling system called 'Rapid Response', to deliver same-day opinion on breaking national news stories.
Web sites: www.icm-direct.com and www.icmresearch.com .
All articles 2006-23 written and edited by Mel Crowther and/or Nick Thomas, 2024- by Nick Thomas, unless otherwise stated.
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