Former Schlesinger MD Joins Hamburg Agency

Former Schlesinger Group Germany MD Stephan Schmid has joined SCHÖTTMER - RESEARCH HUB in Hamburg, as Unit Director.

Founded by full service agency the Schöttmer Institute, the HUB offers modular MR services for research, advertising, innovation and design agencies. In addition to a team of MR professionals comprising psychologists, business economists, sociologists, cultural scientists and ecotrophologists*, the company offers proprietary facility and field service capabilities. In addition, the HUB provides access to a network of external MR service providers in Germany and internationally.

Schmid (pictured) joins from data collection group Schlesinger, where he served as Managing Director, having previously spent eighteen years at fieldwork services agency and provider of focus group facilities in Germany, Schmiedl Marktforschung, (acquired by Schlesinger in 2012), where he served as MD.

Commenting on the appointment, Hans Schöttmer, owner and MD of the Schöttmer Institute, said: 'We are pleased to welcome Stephan Schmid, a proven expert, to our team. He will actively support us with his more than twenty years of experience in org and business development to further shape the very contemporary service offering at the SCHÖTTMER - RESEARCH HUB, which was launched last year'.

Web sites: www.schoettmer.de and www.hub.schoettmer.de .


* specialists in nutrition, household management and economics.

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