QUESTERS RESEARCH SERVICES UNVEILS IN LAGOS, LAUNCHES NATIONAL OMNIBUS SURVEY

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L-R:Managing Director, Questers Research Resources Ltd., Dare Odetunde; Research Executive, Olasunbo Ogundele; Chairman, Lanre Fasakin; and Head, Qualitative Research, Olawande Adediran, during the launch of QRS Limited, in Lagos... on Thursday.

Questers Research Services Ltd, (QRS), an independent marketing and social research agency based in Lagos, Nigeria has been officially unveiled in a media interactive session which also featured the introduction of Questers National Quarterly Omnibus Survey.

Speaking with the media at the session which held at the company’s office in Ikeja, the Group Chairman, Lanre Fasakin disclosed that the young but excitingly gifted agency is equipped it to deliver cutting-edge marketing/social research services across the spectrum of the industry.

One of the company’s cutting-edge research services that attracted comments at the event is the QRS National Quarterly Omnibus Survey. The Omnibus Survey is a multi-client syndication study with the capacity to cater for the needs of several sponsors simultaneously.

Mostly targeted at the FMCGs and clients special areas of interest, the Omnibus is planned to cover 18 urban and 36 rural areas, as a continuous quarterly market monitor amongst 4000 households across Nigeria while it also has a flexible quota allocation that allows additional 50 special incidence sample at each urban location.

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Dare Odetunde; Lanre Fasakin; and Olawande Adediran at the briefing

The Questers team is lead by Oludare Odetunde, a qualified, experienced Statistician whose strength lies in strong analytical and mathematical skills. “Team members are well established in the market research industry in Nigeria and other African countries with experience cutting across FMCGs, Reproductive Health, Telecoms, Beverages, Banking, Oil and Gas amongst other sectors”.

According to Mr. Fasakin, the Questers Qualitative department is driven by a seasoned product and marketing strategist with about 12 years’ experience spanning advertising and marketing research while the team displays rare talent for moderation, reporting and generating insights that capture consumer disposition in a way that moves brands forward.

As one of its ways to deepen professionalism, objectivity and quality outputs in the research industry, Questers deploys electronic devices such as the SurveyToGo (STG) platform for data collection to ensure quick turnaround timing/prompt delivery.

The platform is a Mobile Data Collection Software used to create, conduct and manage electronic mobile surveys almost at real time.

With access to a steady pool of over 500 interviewers and supervisors across the country, the company is positioned to deliver quality research services across all geopolitical zones in Nigeria.

According to the Group Chairman, the company’s unique selling propositions include fast turnaround timing, proficiency in use of scientific tools such as Dooblo for data collection and analysis; and individual staff and corporate membership of leading national and globally acclaimed professional research bodies such as the Nigeria Marketing Research Association (NiMRA), The Market Research Society (MRS) UK, ESOMAR and so on.

While dwelling on the company’s mission statement, the managing Director explains that the company does not wait for its clients’ briefs but it’s always proactive on ideas that will move the client’s business to the next level.  “Personal touch enhanced by our relationship manager, we nurture and extol “relationship” and not “transaction” based engagements. Our goal is for the client to describe us as partner and not agency”, said Odetunde.