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Mark Speed

Mark Speed is joint MD and leads the Branding, Marketing and Communications (BMC) team at IFF Research. An expert in private and public sector research, Mark has extensive experience in researching hard to reach audiences.

Alistair Kuechel

Alistair Kuechell is an Associate Director at IFF Research. He leads IFF's SME Business Omnibus and works with a range of IFF clients on bespoke research projects.

Angus Tindle

Angus Tindlel is an Associate Director at IFF Research. He works for a wide range of IFF clients on bespoke research projects.

Rob Warren

Rob Warren is a Director at IFF Research. He has 25 years of experience in working directly in the financial services and regulations sector for companies including the Financial Services Authority and Lloyd’s of London.

Recent blog posts

• A necessary burden?
  

  “If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill 1931 Although not one of the great man’s best known quotes this one sums up the attitude of many UK businesses. To state the obvious these are difficult economic times and many businesses are under great pressure just to survive. Regulation can often be regarded

• Rioters, Residents and Research: The 3 R’s and the Big Society
  

  What does the Big Society really mean in practice? And has last summer’s civil unrest strengthened or undermined it? Immediately after the riots, some commentators asked whether moving to ‘lighter touch’ government is feasible. It assumes an army of responsible citizens at a time when some communities seemed to be descending into anarchy. That said, the small army of local

• COI to be no more – what now?
  

  Well now we know for sure – while I remember ministers back in the Major government questioning the worth of the COI, it is only almost two decades later that the axe finally falls. The timing is interesting, just after the reported fears that there will be more deaths and at risk behaviours because of cuts to health promotion campaigns

• A Healthy U-turn
  

  When the government decided that public sector advertising and marketing was going to be seriously curtailed to help reduce the national deficit, few who worked in this sector were surprised. But now there may be a rethink, at least for government health campaigns – see here: The Guardian You can imagine ministers’ thought processes after the Treasury briefing. “The ‘Mad