Awards & Accreditations

Learn more about some of the awards Kantar has won, through insightful and inspiring work.
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2021 Winner (Gold) in Consumer Attitudes and Behaviour, for Kantar COVID-19 Barometer.

2019 Winner in Consumer Attitudes and Behaviour, for Getting Gender Right research.

ESOMAR

2019 ESOMAR Congress Winner ‘Best Paper Award’ for ‘The real why and the hidden who’ by Jon Puleston, Kantar, and Christopher Graves, Ogilvy Consulting.

2019 Young ESOMAR Society competition winner: Tsahn Cherng (Kantar) on the potential of Blockchain technology for the market research industry.

2019 ESOMAR Best Presentation Award APAC: ‘Measuring the short to long-term impact of digital literacy education in rural India’ by Matthew Beal, Kantar, and Ashley Woods, Google.

Unilever
2019 Unilever CMI Agency Partner Excellence Award, India.
I-COM

2019 I-COM Smart data Awards: Data Provider of the Year.

AMEC

2020 AMEC Grand Prix Awards:

Arising from a measurement study with Vodafone (Germany):

  • Gold award for Most effective planning, research and evaluation
  • Gold award for Most effective planning, research and evaluation in business-to-business communications
  • Gold award for Most impactful client recommendations

For a collaboration with SNCF (France):

  • Gold award for Most effective planning, research and evaluation in the public and not-for-profit sectors
  • Silver award for Best use of measurement for a single event or campaign

For work with Cafeyn (France):

  • Silver award for Most effective planning, research and evaluation in consumer communications
Trophées des Etudes et Innovation

Gold award at the Trophée des Etudes et Innovation organised by Offre media + Syntec for NeedScope IA research about decoding the consistency of brand communication on social media at a global level. Carried out for Michelin.

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Caroline Frankum has been recognised in the HERoes 100 Women Executives List for the second year, for her work in inclusion and diversity issues. Caroline is CEO of Kantar’s Profiles division and a member of the Kantar board.

BHBIA

Winner of British Healthcare Business Intelligence Association (BHBIA) BOBI award for Creative Fieldwork Team of the Year 2021

Acknowledged for sound industry-recognised recommendations and a robust testing process, this year’s entry is the team’s second ‘Win’ and third consecutive year being named ‘Highly Commended’ for the award.

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MRS

Winner 2019 MRS Grand Prix for Greatest Impact. Christopher Graves, Ogilvy and Jon Puleston, Kantar Profiles Division, for The real why & the hidden who: deploying multiple behavioral science lenses to render a clearer picture of individuals at scale. This also won the 2019 MRS award for Innovation in Research Methodology.

Winner 2018 President’s medal for UN SDG Action Campaign. This huge project constituted the first step in enabling countries to measure their journey to the accomplishment of the SDGs in a consistent way.


Media Research Group
2019 Media Research Group Winner of ‘Best International Research’ for our work in Global Audience Measurement with BBC World Service.
Associação Brasileira de Propaganda (ABP) 
Winner Associação Brasileira de Propaganda (ABP) “Destaques 2019” for Research Institute of the Year.
Great Place To Work
2019 Great Places to Work recipient in Brazil, China, Europe, France, Ireland, Mexico, and UK.
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Employee Accolades

Kantar is home to many inspiring people. Meet some of our colleagues who have been recognised for their outstanding efforts and contributions.
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