In a special report for Business Ireland’s Autumn 2005 edition, Catherine Toner, Research Director of Millward Brown Ulster, comments on researching the Northern Ireland market. ...

In conjunction with Ulster Business magazine, Millward Brown Ulster has continued with its annual survey of business opinion. This year the survey has been conducted at the end of 2004 and into early 2005, at a time when the Northern Ireland political situation was still in limbo with the suspension of the Assembly and the reversion to Direct Rule...

Last month the first part of the annual business opinion survey conducted by Millward Brown Ulster in conjunction with Ulster Business magazine was featured. This survey was conducted at the end of 2004 and into early 2005. The first part of the survey, covered in the February edition of Ulster Business, expressed the business community’s views of how politicians should proceed with issues such as taxation, red tape, and infrastructure, while this month current and future economic and business expectations are explored...

In May 1998 an Inter-party Political Agreement was endorsed by Referendum: 71% voted in favour of the Agreement and 29% voted against. Subsequently, an election was held to return 108 members to the new Assembly, which in turn internally elected the Executive...

61% of people surveyed in a recent poll believe that smoking should be banned in pubs in Northern Ireland. This figure rose to 73% when respondents were asked if they thought that smoking should be banned in workplaces in Northern Ireland. ...

In a recent poll, the views of adults on the subject of parental chastisement and potential law reform in this area were gathered. The following results are based on questions recently asked of a representative sample of 1015 adults (aged 16+). ...

The image of Northern Ireland is in many ways a paradoxical. Media attention inevitably focuses heavily on the adverse aspects, but first time visitors are frequently highly surprised to find themselves in a region of great natural beauty and variety and yet possessing urban centres offering modern infrastructural facilities, along with excellent shopping and social amenities. ...

Millward Brown Ulster has prepared a detailed report covering the Northern Ireland Car Market. This is a continuation of the monitor started in 1982. ...

In May 1998 an Inter-party Political Agreement was endorsed by Referendum: 71% voted in favour of the Agreement and 29% voted against. Subsequently, an election was held to return 108 members to the new Assembly, which in turn internally elected the Executive, comprising 12 members, headed, as at October 2002, by David Trimble (First Minister), and Mark Durkan (Deputy First Minister). ...

After 38 years as the largest full research agency in Ireland, on 18th April 2002, Ulster Marketing Surveys, along with its Dublin based sister companies became part of the international research agency Millward Brown, an acknowledged world wide leader in brand and communications research, adopting the new name of Millward Brown Ulster. ...

Millward Brown Ulster has been tracking Internet penetration and usage in the consumer market in Northern Ireland since August 1999. We have developed a detailed report which tracks usage of, and access to, the Internet amongst the Northern Ireland adult population. ...

Millward Brown Ulster has prepared a detailed report covering the Northern Ireland Car Market. This is a continuation of the monitor started in 1982. ...

Following an event of high drama when police raided Sinn Fein offices at Stormont with allegations of political spying, the then Secretary of State, Dr John Reid, suspended the Assembly and other institutions established under the Good Friday Agreement, and reintroduced Direct Rule. ...

Ulster Marketing Surveys has prepared a detailed report covering the Northern Ireland Car Market. This is a continuation of the monitor started in 1982.

Over 100 people took part in a CAPI self-administered whisk(e)y product test at the Ulster Marketing Surveys stand at the BT E-commerce, Business IT and Telecoms show. The main objective of the exercise was to demonstrate Ulster Marketing Surveys computer based and web research facility.

Ulster Marketing Surveys teamed up with BBC's "On the Record" last week to make a programme on Unionist views of the Good Friday Agreement. The programme aired on Sunday and featured a number of vignettes taken from a focus group recruited and moderated by Ulster Marketing Surveys.

In the wake of General de Chastelain's announcement that he verified that a significant act of IRA decommissioning had occurred last week, Ulster Marketing Surveys carried out an opinion poll to ascertain the state of public opinion in Northern Ireland, focusing on the credibility and impact of this statement and in particular how this impinges on views on David Trimble's effort to regain the position of First Minister.

The CIM Northern Ireland Marketing Awards have become one of the most prestigious social events in the Province's business calendar. Ulster Marketing Surveys sponsored the award 'Voluntary/Community Sector Marketing Award' presented to the company which has demonstrated an effective strategic approach in the marketing of community or voluntary services.

Democracy has developed over a tortuous 2500 years, from the early exhortations of Demosthenes to the current day, when freedom of opinion and conscience is so much taken for granted, that many have lost sight of how precious, and indeed vulnerable, this right is. ...

(First published in The Belfast Telegraph, 16 May 2001) In May 1998 an inter-party political Agreement was endorsed by Referendum: 71% voted in favour of the Agreement, and 29% voted against. Subsequently, an election was held to return 108 members to the new Assembly, which in turn internally elected the Executive, comprising 12 members, headed by David Trimble (First Minister), and Seamus Mallon (Deputy First Minister). ...