Ipsos Australia welcomes new Director to the loyalty team

April 29, 2011

Leading global market research agency Ipsos today announced the appointment of Julie Harris as Director in the Loyalty team in Sydney to strengthen its senior team and support business growth. Julie joins Ipsos from Inside Story in Sydney where she was Director of Client Consulting and looked after research projects for leading financial services and government clients. Just prior to Inside Story, Julie was with Allianz in Australia heading up their Customer Insights team and leading research spanning from customer satisfaction to ad & brand and new product development. Julie has a BSc (Psychology) from The University of Western Australia, an MBA from University of Canberra and is QPMR accredited.

Brett Tucker, MD for Ipsos Loyalty in Australia states "We are ecstatic to have Julie join the Ipsos team and put her experience & skills to good use within Ipsos. Julie will step in as the senior client lead for all Sydney based projects as well as work closely with me on sales & marketing activity to help grow the Ipsos Loyalty business across Australia."

Ipsos is the second largest survey-based market research agency in the world with offices in over 67 countries. Ipsos Loyalty is one of the group's five specialised international practices and is dedicated to helping clients improve business performance through customer satisfaction and loyalty.

For more information visit www.ipsos.com

For further information contact:

Brett Tucker
Managing Director
Ipsos Loyalty – Australia
T: 02 9900 5130
E: brett.tucker@ipsos.com

About Ipsos
Ipsos is the second largest global survey-based market research company, owned and managed by research professionals that assess market potential and interpret market trends for over 5,000 worldwide clients to develop and test emergent or existing products or services, build brands, test advertising and study audience responses to various media, and, measure public opinion on issues and reputation. With over 9,100 employees working in wholly owned operations in 64 countries, Ipsos conducts advertising, customer loyalty, marketing, media, and public affairs research.