We are a leading market research agency in the Philippines.
Made up of over 7,000 islands, the Philippines is a diverse and complex market. We help brands understand how to win in the country, deepening their understanding of Filipino consumers so they can develop products, services and comms that meet their needs.
From our base in Manila, we can conduct market research across the entire country. This means we’re also able to act as a fieldwork partner, helping organisations reach respondents across the Philippines.
Innovation of the Year
Finalist
— The AURAs, 2021
Market Research Agency of the Year
Winner – Gold
— Agency of the Year Awards, 2021
Consultant of the Year
Winner – Gold
— Agency of the Year Awards, 2021
Consultant of the Year
Winner
— Agency of the Year Awards, 2020
Market Research Agency of the Year
Finalist
— Agency of the Year Awards, 2020
Market Research Supplier of the Year
Winner
— Marketing Research & Insight Excellence Awards – 2019
Market Research Agency of the Year
Winner
— Agency of the Year Awards, 2019
Global Agency of the Year
Highly Commended
— Market Research Society Awards, 2019
Best Training and Development
Highly Commended
— Market Research Society's Operations Awards, 2019
Best Data Collection (telephone)
Finalist
— Market Research Society's Operations Awards, 2019
Best Data Collection (face-to-face)
Finalist
— Market Research Society's Operations Awards – 2019
Iris has almost two decades’ industry experience. She’s passionate about qualitative research and is a skilled moderator, international speaker, workshop facilitator and trainer. As a competitive intelligence practitioner, she also has rich experience in helping brands to understand their market position and develop an edge over the competition.
Mary Ann has 14 years of experience in the market research industry. She’s a client servicing and project management specialist and has managed a vast array of research studies across many industries. With a deep understanding of different market research techniques – spanning the operational aspects to data processing and data analytics – your research project is in safe hands.
Patrick has a diverse experience in information technology, security, and analysis. His investigation and analyst background transitioned to business intelligence practice, big data analytics, risk assessments, and environmental impact analysis as it relates to market entry, with a special focus on technology companies. He assists North American and European companies looking for market opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as Asia-based companies looking to understand the competitive landscape in the United States.
Karlo has almost a decade of experience in the market research industry. He’s a quantitative specialist with specific expertise on brand health tracking, ATUs and UAI studies. He’s also experienced working with a variety of clients – big and small, local and regional – so he’s adept in delivering quality service dependent on client’s needs.
Lever has extensive experience in market research with almost 8 years in the industry. He’s a qualitative specialist with expertise on FGDs and has a background in brand health tracking studies. He has diverse experience in project management, planning, people management, and fieldwork technical direction for both quantitative and qualitative projects. He was able to establish a good working relationship with the clients in different industries, locally and internationally.
Marvin has over a decade of experience in the market research industry. Started his career in data processing, then moved to project management and eventually joined the end client. He was exposed to brand health tracking studies and consumer insights. He’s been a specialist considering his strong background in different aspects of market research.
We’re always on the lookout for bright, passionate, curious people to join our team. See our careers page for current vacancy details.
See all vacanciesWe work with the world’s leading brands, harnessing research to unlock new ideas, develop future strategies and power business growth.
We bring businesses closer to their customers and help them navigate the broader market, so they can future proof their strategy.
We partner with brands to develop winning products, from concept development right through to pricing research.
We help brands create comms that cut through by understanding the messages which truly resonate with your target audience.
We’re a trusted fieldwork partner to top-tier organisations, providing them with the data they need to drive decision-making.
Our work doesn’t stop at the debrief. We go further, workshopping findings and creating standout creative outputs to raise the impact of research and turn insight into action.
Kadence International – Philippines
Office P 29th Floor
Robinsons Cyberscape Gamma
Topaz Road
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Pasig City
Metro Manila
Philippines
With over 30 years in the business of market research, we have extensive experience and a depth of knowledge across a range of sectors.
We bring this to bear to design the very best approach to meet your objectives.
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We’ve been working with Kadence on a couple of strategic projects, which influenced our product roadmap roll-out within the region. Their work has been exceptional in providing me the insights that I need.
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Arla Foods
Kadence’s reports give us the insight, conclusion and recommended execution needed to give us a different perspective, which provided us with an opportunity to relook at our go to market strategy in a different direction which we are now reaping the benefits from.
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Bridgestone
Kadence helped us not only conduct a thorough and insightful piece of research, its interpretation of the data provided many useful and unexpected good-news stories that we were able to use in our communications and interactions with government bodies.
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Mitsubishi
Kadence team is more like a partner to us. We have run a number of projects together and … the pro-activeness, out of the box thinking and delivering in spite of tight deadlines are some of the key reasons we always reach out to them.
Vital Strategies
Kadence were an excellent partner on this project; they took time to really understand our business challenges, and developed a research approach that would tackle the exam question from all directions. The impact of the work is still being felt now, several years later.
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