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2003 (April) - TNS OBOP has new identity
2002 (September) TNS OBOP launches a unique brand and advertising tracking solution - MarketWhys
2002 (June) Introduction of Snack Panel - snack continuous tracking
2002 (May) TNS OBOP introduces a new research product, OMNIMAS – the biggest omnibus research conducted by Taylor Nelson Sofres companies
2001 (September) Parliamentary elections - TNS OBOP carries out exit poll research using WAP technology
2000 TNS OBOP lunches TNS branded research solutions First projects carried out with the use of Optima, NeedScope , as well as tracking research projectsbased onMiriad, FoQus2
2000 (March) Launch of TNS OBOP Interbus – regular research on Internet users
2000 (February) TNS OBOP launches a radio research based on electronic measurement
2000 According to TNS Worldwide strategy TNS OBOP developes research sectors
1999 Opening of CATI research studio (Computer Assisted Telephone Interview)
1998 (September) On privatisation of OBOP, the company joins the world-wide marketing information leaders (Taylor Nelson Sofres research companies)
1998 Rapid development of OBOP’s qualitative research
1997 (Autumn) Parliamentary elections – another exit poll study; during one day more then 60 thousand questionnaires analysed
1997 (January) OBOP launches a nationwide TV Audience measurement Peoplemeter
1995 Presidential elections; OBOP carries out the exit poll study fully with its own resources
1995 OBOP transformed into a commercial legal entity
1994 OBOP carries out its first Establishment Survey (Establishment Survey for the TV panel)
1994 (February) First OBOP OMNIBUS study
1990 First democratic presidential elections; OBOP carries out the exit poll study in co-operation with the German INFAS.
1989 Launch of a monthly research on political preferences
1980 ’Solidarity’ time – a report labelled CONFIDENTIAL produced: its subject ’on symptoms of some deterioration in the social moods’, between Spring and October the drop in confidence in the authorities was from 32% in Spring to 15% in October
1974 First diary based radio and TV audience measurement
1973 Interviewers - volunteers replaced with professional, paid interviewers
1971 Launch of periodically carried out brand awareness studies; e.g. the CPN brand known by 59% respondents(in 1988 the rate grew to 78%)
1964 OBOP asks which radio receiver would Poles be most interested in buying 51% respondents prefers a wooden case radio, 18% - a plastic one
1960 OBOP proves that for breakfast a majority of Poles drink wheat coffee
1958 OBOP’s research divulges that the number of possible conscripts presented in the official statistical yearly is fake
1958 OBOP is created (Ośrodek Badania Opinii Publicznej)