Bilendi : continues its international expansion by opening a new office in Germany

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Bilendi continues its international expansion by opening a new office in Germany

• Bilendi is continuing its international expansion in digital market research services by opening a second German office - in Cologne

  
  

• Andreas Knappstein, with ten years' experience in the on-line market research sector, is joining the German team as Sales Director

London, December 09/12/2015

An international expansion strategy based on a global offering with local teams

For the past three years, Bilendi has created a global offering for digital services for the market research sector, with proprietary panels in 11 European countries and several international partners. The group has also expanded its technological innovations, particularly with regard to mobile telephone surveys and solutions for gauging the effectiveness of digital advertising campaigns.

In early 2015, Bilendi accelerated its growth in Northern Europe (Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) by acquiring one of the local market leaders, M3 Research. It has also strengthened its position in the United Kingdom by acquiring the access panel activities of Springboard UK.

Today, Bilendi has more than two million panellists in 11 of the major European countries and eight sales offices in Europe.

Bilendi opens a new German office in Cologne

With a presence in Berlin since 2010 and a current team of some 20 employees, Bilendi today announces the opening of a new office in Cologne thereby strengthening its coverage of the German market.

Bilendi has one of the largest access panels in the German market with more than 250,000 active panellists, in addition to 20,000 panellists in Austria and 50,000 in Switzerland.

With such a unique asset, the new office will help accelerate the group's growth in Germany, which is the second- largest survey market in Europe.

Strengthening the German teams

To support this expansion, Bilendi is also strengthening its teams in Germany. The group is delighted to announce the appointment of Andreas Knappstein as Sales Director in the DACH countries (Germany,

Austria, Switzerland). Andreas Knappstein will be responsible for sales in all German-speaking countries. He has ten years' experience of digital services for the market research sector, having been Sales Director for Respondi AG, Managing Director of Liveloop GmbH and Large Account Manager with Questback GmbH (formerly GlobalPark AG).

Marc Bidou, Chairman and CEO of Bilendi explains: 'Bilendi's strategy over the past three years has been the large-scale expansion of its European presence, with a mixture of acquisitions and internal growth. The opening of a second German office in Cologne, a region with a strong commitment in the area of market research, is a key part of that growth process.'

Andreas Knappstein adds 'Bilendi is already one of the major players in the German market, and it has enormous growth potential thanks to its broad international reach and its technological innovations.'

About Bilendi - www.bilendi.com

At a time when the volume, variety and speed of data generated and exchanged is increasing exponentially, Bilendi provides technologically innovative solutions for their collection, management and evaluation. Bilendi is therefore at the heart of data collection for two market segments: Services for Market Research and Services for Customer Engagement and Loyalty. Already present in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Morocco and recently in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland and Denmark), the group is also active in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Norway.