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#ShelfLifeTrends 2014: Culture change drives packaging innovation Posted on January 23, 2014 by Iosetta Santini

Packaging and new product trends for 2014, across the consumer packaged goods markets globally, reveal the increasing use of vegetables in unique formulations; a growing focus on 'extreme' flavours; an emphasis on ‘clean’ ingredients and sustainability; and packaging innovation driven by changing consumer lifestyles. Source: #ShelfLifeTrends 2014: Culture change drives packaging innovation

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Driven to frustration Posted on January 22, 2014 by Iosetta Santini

Research Now’s Annie Pettit takes aim at the lazy stereotype of market research peddled in the latest Peugeot commercial. Source: Driven to frustration

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Marketing your market research agency in a digitally connected world Posted on January 10, 2014 by Iosetta Santini

So, 2013 was the year of the twerk and the selfie. Now 2014 looks set to be a pivotal, self-celebratory moment of a different kind. Economists predict a brighter financial situation and as the economy is set to prosper, so should your agency. It’s no longer possible to opt out of social media. You might not see it as a way of delivering clients but you’d be wrong; in the latest GRIT report, LinkedIn was named as the second most

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Twelve highlights of Keen as Mustard’s 2013 Posted on December 17, 2013 by Iosetta Santini

1. Lucy Davison’s first blog for Quirks. It covered the importance of branding in research, emphasising that a strong brand is an asset that researchers should exploit much more than they do at the moment. You can read it here. 2. We took our Communicating Insights workshop to Dubai, Milan and Valencia for ESOMAR. 3. We moved from Elephant and Castle to Clapham Common, you can now find us just beyond Cock Pond, in Wingate Square. 4. We recruited a

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Market research… communicated Posted on November 28, 2013 by Lucy Davison

This post was originally written for NewMR - for a series on Threats and Opportunities in Market Research, promoting The Festival of NewMR  (Monday 2nd December to Friday 6th December). As we race at alarming speed into the future, accessorised with new technologies, swathed in big data and seduced by social media, it is important to step back and reflect on the bigger picture. Sometimes on a day to day level it’s easy to forget that we are living through

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Presenting FreshMinds Posted on November 22, 2013 by Simon Dunn

As you may have noticed, FreshMinds adopted a new visual identity designed by The Cabinet as of the 10th of October; to mark the merging of its social business with its research business. Mustard was set the time-limited task of creating a PowerPoint design, using this new branding. The project was challenging; faced only with a few PDF concepts showing how the presentations might look, and the clock ticking, I dived in. I find that the fundamental issue with PowerPoint

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