We are thrilled to welcome Josep Montserrat as a Board Director at the Tony Cowling Foundation. With a career spanning over 30 years in international market research and leadership, Josep brings a wealth of experience, innovation and a deep commitment to the values that Tony Cowling championed.

The Tony Cowling Foundation is proud to celebrate innovation in market research through the Market Research Industry Innovation Award. As part of our ‘Meet the Founders’ series, we introduce you to the visionaries behind some of the most innovative projects reshaping the industry.

Today, we spotlight VTION, one of the award’s finalists. Below, Manoj Dawane, founder of VTION, shares insights about the project’s journey, the challenges they’ve faced, and the innovations they bring to the market.

As part of our ‘Meet the Founders’ series, we introduce you to the visionaries behind some of the most innovative projects reshaping the industry.

Today, we’re excited to feature ox-ai, one of the Tony Cowling Foundation Market Research Industry Innovation Award 2024 finalists. We spoke with Director Zsolt Kiss, to learn more about the ground-breaking work his team is doing.

As part of our ‘Meet the Founders’ series, we introduce you to the visionaries behind some of the most innovative projects reshaping the industry.

Today, we’re talking to Ipsos, one of the Tony Cowling Foundation Market Research Industry Innovation Award 2024 finalists. Below, Dr. Nikolai Reynolds, Ipsos Global Head of Product Testing shares more of Ipsos’ journey so far.

Welcome to this edition of The Tony Cowling Foundation's newsletter, your window into our journey and achievements. This edition marks a special milestone as we reflect on a year filled with progress, innovation, and community.

SurveyMind, a finalist for the TCF Market Research Innovation Awards was founded in Spring 2022, by two researchers and friends Alex & Ranulph. Let’s meet the founders and discover more about their mission.

The Tony Cowling Foundation is delighted to announce Kantar Public’s Voice of Ukraine has won its 2023 Industry Innovation Award. Voice of Ukraine is a longitudinal and systematic collection of migration paths, needs and expectations of Ukrainians, primarily women, displaced through war. The programme is running across Europe.

Welcome to our first newsletter keeping you in touch with the activities of the Tony Cowling Foundation.

It has been an exciting year for the Foundation, created by a group of Tony's friends and old colleagues to honour a man who was so influential in the market research industry, and in the lives of many people

Our ambition is to provoke and recognise innovation in the industry via activities in Research, Education and Awards. To this end, we are proud of the work we have started with the University of Cambridge Judge Business School and ESOMAR.

The Tony Cowling Foundation was created in late 2020 to honour the legacy of the man who founded TNS and was so influential in the market-research industry and to the lives of many of us. The aim of the Foundation is to bring benefits to the industry and the people working in it, cultivating a better understanding of human behaviour that will also bring benefits to our global society.

We are now at the end of the first half of 2022, and we are very pleased to report progress on projects we are developing in the areas of Research, Education and Recognition.

Inaugural Tony Cowling Industry Innovation Award – Winner announced!

In March, the Tony Cowling Foundation (TCF) announced a new award in memory of industry pioneer and leader, Tony Cowling. The TCF Industry Innovation Award aims to continue Tony’s legacy recognising people whose work will help drive the future of the market research industry.

The Foundation was looking for innovations that could be widely adopted, would improve data quality and advice, and have the potential to expand the market research industry reach.