PRESENTATION of Market research forces in Belarus

Being one of the best F2F Consumer Surveys provider in Europe, MRP-EURASIA in Belarus - is the local research representative of the whole international market research agency, headquartered in Eastern Europe and having own offices and strong regional field staff in most of the Eurasian countries.

(country in Eastern Europe) Our country-office works as a field affiliates MRP-EURASIA under its trademark in Belarus on proprietary standards and technologies, and provides a full range of sociological and market research services.

MRP-EURASIA-Belarus – market research territorial unit and provides a full cycle of market research services in this country. Our market research staff here performs all kinds of market research, analysis and market research intelligence on the local market, beginning the development plan of market research to data analysis and presentation of market investigation analysis.

Actively and successfully MRP-professionals work in the sphere of trademark examination, brand and corporate research, advertising research, consumer behavior on Belarus market.

MRP-EURASIA corporate identity is a mix of research traditions and new market research technologies, original approaches to problem solving. Complicated questions directed to us from our partners, customers, clients require intensive and creative market research work. Scientific and technological potential, Market research opportunities in Belarus gives the keys to understanding which then can be converted to proper action.

Our market research advantages in this country:

Efficiency and exactness of market research services;

The most qualified Market Research professionals in Belarus work with unique tasks (attracting necessary specialists from other local offices and head office);

Innovated market research technologies (controlled from the head office MRP-EURASIA);

International corporate network support (32 MRP-EURASIA local regional representations and head office);

State of the experienced and skilled marketing specialist and other market research regional resources in Belarus;

Consulting group of industry-focused market research experts with large market research experience in Belarus in different business fields;

You can see the overall territorial management of MRP-EURASIA (including the local market research division in Belarus) on this page "Our territorial and functional management".

MARKET RESEARCH RESOURCE PLAN in Belarus

1. MRP-EURASIA market research professional network in Belarus:

Belorussian country-office (local market research representative of MRP-EURASIA) covers the whole territory of market Belarus.

2. The distribution of our market research field staff Belarus among most populous Belorussian cities:

We cover the whole territory of Belarus.

Subdivision	Capital	Population (2009 estimate	Area (km2)	Density
All Belarus	Minsk	9,503,807	207,617.26	46.55
City of Minsk	—	1,836,808	305.50	7144.92
Brest Region	Brest	1,401,177	32,790.68	43.69
Gomel Region	Gomel	1,440,718	40,361.66	36.25
Grodno Region	Grodno	1,072,381	25,118.07	44.11
Mogilev Region	Mogilev	1,099,74	29,079.01	38.73
Minsk Region	Minsk	1,422,528	39,912.35	36.17
Vitebsk Region	Vitebsk	1,230,821	40,049.99	31.55

In each region we have 20-70 our local agents. In Minsk - 75, in Vitebsk – 17 field interviewers. Plus, in each geographical region we possess Regional Supervisor (1 supervisor for 5-8 interviewers).

3. The market research interviewer force in Belarus:

25% of our interviewers - students of economics from the 3rd year and higher Students and young specialists used by us in standard or simple projects are in the personnel reserve of MRP-EURASIA. 50% of our interviewers - experienced market research professionals in Belarus with one or two higher education, and age 30-45 years, with experience of at least 5 of our market research projects during the past 2 years, taking part in polls and other surveys in Belarus on a regular basis? As a permanent staff. 60% of our interviewers - women.

All of our interviewers and supervisors regularly undergo training on the basics of communication and briefings on each project. In addition we carry out with them the implementation of distance education and test tasks and checking the level of readiness to current market research projects in country.

The interviewers recruited for a survey are trained in regional market research office in Belarus (or by webinars) with the help of the manuals used by Self-Instructional Workbook for Telephone and Personal Interview Training. For each survey a full set of manuals is provided for interviewers and regional supervisors followed by an on-line briefing.

Market research representative Belarus has a team of full-time qualitative researchers, moderators and market research analysts in Belarus, who work with different targets using a wide range of professional techniques. The projects could be conducted in all regions of market Belarus.

Meanwhile, the head office of MRP-EURASIA (and also Regional Director of this sub-region) provides a complete and effective control over the quality of market research projects in Belarus and, if necessary, offers managerial and analytical assistance to the local office.

4. Level and professionalism degree of Market research staff country:

- All base - 354 for Belarus market (48% of this quantity is in staff reserve) ;

- Active in Minsk - 35;

- Middle age - 33;

- Quantity of new interviewers on the average in a month - 3 per month;

- Quantity of "elite" interviewers (difficult deep and expert interviews) - 15;

- Recruiters - 3 with Operational market research experience in Belarus - 5 years;

- Operators on data entry (processing data) - 5;

- Supervisors - 25 (Operational experience - 5 years minimum);

- Controllers - 15 (Operational experience - 6 years).

5. Belarus market research experts in areas:

- The senior manager on quantitative researches - 1;

- The senior manager on qualitative researches - 1;

- The senior manager on work on different B2B projects - 5;

- The senior manager on work with operators and interviewers - 1;

- The adviser-analyst – 1;

6. Facilities and equipment as a important Market research opportunities in Belarus:

- Proper space for FGDs (equipped with audio-and video-recording systems);

- Computers for data entry and data processing and for webinars;

- Necessary computer programs for processing data received from field studies;

- Scanning and copying machines for reproduction of materials;

- Voice Recorders for conducting in-depth interviews.

In the team of marketing specialists MRP-EURASIA-Belarus and along all local offices MRP-EURASIA operate only economically active people. In our Company, is strictly prohibited forced labor, and there are no restrictions or penalties when changes place of work staff. Our company does not use any racial, national, regional and other non-specialized criteria in the selection of staff that ensures equal access to any specialist to work in the company.

Below you can see the list of countries where we have strong regional representatives for conducting surveys: