verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . june 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message kantar worldpanel type wholly owned subsidiary industry market research founded 1997 as part of tns . rebranded from tns worldpanel in 2010 headquarters cami de can calders 4 spain key people josep monserrat tim kidd pascal avignon luis simoes sonia bueno marcy kou paul tong andrew fowler ian dunkley website kantar worldpanel kantar worldpanel formerly tns worldpanel is an international company dealing in consumer knowledge and insights based on continuous consumer panels . kantar worldpanel is part of the kantar group 1 the data investment management division of wpp . 2 through market monitoring advanced analytics and tailored market research solutions kantar worldpanel analyses what people buy what they consume and the attitudes behind this behaviour . their clients include brand owners private label manufacturers meat fruit and vegetable suppliers retailers market analysts and government organisations . kantar worldpanel has a team of 3 500 people and services covering 60 countries with direct ownership or through partners . they work in fields such as fast moving consumer goods impulse products beauty and personal care fashion baby telecommunications and entertainment . history edit kantar worldpanel s first panels were founded in the 1940s by companies like attwood statistics limited in the uk 1948 and secodip in france 1969 . the latter soon started to expand their coverage firstly to spain in 1973 and afterwards to portugal in 1989 . in the 1970s and the 1980s other companies also started creating new panels . in 1976 taylor nelson launched the first usage panel for food and drinks in the uk . in 1980 nfo created a usage panel for beverages in the united states . and in 1985 ibope launched a consumer panel in brazil 1985 . in the 1990s the consolidation and development of the consumer panels network accelerated . in the uk agb and taylor nelson merged to create taylor nelson agb in 1991 so bringing purchase and usage panels into the same company . in france sofres acquired secodip in 1992 and soon started planning the development of new consumer panels in asia and latin america . both groups came together in 1997 when taylor nelson agb and sofres merged to create taylor nelson sofres tns . all consumer panels were then taken into a specific division that in 2003 started using the tns worldpanel brand . at the same time that all these corporate movements were taking place the network expanded across different regions . in asia between 1997 and 2002 six new consumer panels were developed and launched using the frank small associates network that secodip had bought in 1995 . the first launch took place in taiwan in 1997 . two years after in 1999 korea and thailand were added to the network and philippines and malaysia then joined in 2000 followed by vietnam in 2002 . meanwhile in china tns began a partnership in 1999 with local research company cvsc who had started a panel two years earlier . in 2001 tns and the parent company of cvsc formed a new joint venture company called ctr cvsc tns research and the consumer panel in china joined the worldpanel network . in latin america after the first secodip panel launch in argentina in 1996 a partnership between ibope and ndp launched another new panel in chile in 1998 . in 2000 ibope npd and tns created the latinpanel joint venture representing the existing brazil argentina and chile operations . the acquisition of samimp added the existing panels in peru and bolivia to latinpanel in 2002 . in 2004 tns acquired two additional companies data in central america and cima in colombia and venezuela bringing their consumer panels into the regional network . finally ecuador and mexico panels were also built and launched in 2004 and 2005 respectively consolidating latinpanel business in the region . in 2007 tns became owner of latinpanel to bring together the latin american network with worldpanel in other regions . in north america as a result of the taylor nelson sofres acquisition of nfo in 2003 the beverages usage panel was incorporated to the group . in 2006 tns worldpanel reinforced its presence in the us with a new personal care usage panel . in 2008 tns was bought by wpp which resulted in the strategic decision to create a stand alone company 100 % focused on consumer panels and branded kantar worldpanel . the initial focus on fast moving consumer goods was later widened to increase the number of sectors covered . now kantar worldpanel measures fashion telecommunications entertainment and fuel among other products . the range of methodologies has also been transformed from traditional mail questionnaires to a wider range including bar code scanners internet and sms . the company developed its first international panel worldpanel comtech in 2006 and the new leading edge delivery tool worldpanel online in 2010 . kantar worldpanel continues expanding its coverage in the recent years in 2011 a new panel in indonesia was launched . in 2012 a new strategic tie up with another kantar company imrb lead to the integration of their consumer panel in india into the worldpanel network . in 2013 kantar worldpanel expanded into africa launching panels in nigeria and kenya through another alliance with tns rms and ghana will be launched in 2014 . references edit kantar group wpp retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kantar worldpanel & oldid 737379638 categories companies based in londonmarketing research companies of the united kingdomcompanies established in 1997wpp plchidden categories articles needing additional references from june 2012all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history 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