
FEBRUARY '06 Edition - Insight at Dunkin'Brands / Visa Advice #2
The fourth in our Walking with Clients' series stays on the other side of the Pond for an interview by MrWeb's US Director Michael Kenyon with Regina Lewis, Ph.D, VP of the Consumer and Brand Insights Group at Dunkin' Brands, Inc. This is a company whose main chains are Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin Robbins ice cream, and whose biggest-selling product is coffee, so obviously we asked about the obesity issue, and about coffee wars with Starbuck's, but Dunkin's insight team talk about what they want to talk about, and they're highly creative. Paying loyal customers not to use your stores? - well worth a read.
In our skills section we complete what we started last month, looking at visa requirements and the general possibilities for researchers wishing to work in Asia and Australia. In 'Love 'n' Hate' two statisticians work out their problems - one says they don't add up to much, and the other goes into regression; we also ask our regular recruitment consultant advertisers for their views of the last year's MR job market in the UK, and of salary changes.
As ever, there is senior level personnel news and vacancies plus two pages of international jobs.
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