Our award-winning market research agency in London – Kadence UK.
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Our UK office
Kadence is one of the leading market research agencies in London. From our base in the capital, we conduct market research across the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
We partner with brands on full-service market research projects to help them get closer to customers and launch standout products and communications strategies. We can also work with organisations as a fieldwork partner, helping to reach the right respondents in any European market.
As one of Kadence International’s global offices, our team reflects our international outlook. Between us we speak 15 languages!
Meet Our Senior Team

Darren Lewis
Specialist sectors Food & Beverage, FMCG, Financial Services, Technology Current location UKDarren works with our clients in the UK and Europe, applying insight to devise and maintain innovation, marketing and corporate communications strategies. He has over 20 years’ experience, with a particular focus on NPD and innovation, helping to launch new products from burgers and mayonnaise to pet food and tractors.

Rupert Sinclair
Specialist sectors Food & Beverage, Financial Services, Tech & Telco, B2B Current location UKRupert is passionate about helping brands innovate. He’s a frequent conference speaker on the subject of innovation in market research, regularly sharing new techniques and technologies that are enabling brands to access previously untapped insights. |

Bianca Abulafia
Specialist sectors Automotive, Media, Kids Current location UKBianca helps businesses understand how to get the most out of qualitative research, working across our offices globally to design approaches that get to the heart of what’s driving behaviour. Bianca is a frequent conference speaker on all things qual – both in the US and the UK.

Phillip Coote
Specialist sectors Financial Services, Technology, Telco, Food and Beverage, Automotive Current location UKPhillip works with brands to understand their key challenges, drawing on the breadth and depth of his research experience and the best in class capabilities of his colleagues to develop strategic and bespoke solutions that make business sense.

Laura Jenks
Specialist sectors Food & Beverage, Animal Health, Automotive Current location UKLaura applies her mixed methodology experience to answer clients’ needs and challenges across markets, sectors and audiences. With her background in Psychology and behavioural economics, she has a keen interest in the motivations and context behind behaviours.

Cécile King
Specialist sectors Professional Services, Advertising, Food & Beverage Current location UKWith expertise spanning project management and consultancy, Cécile brings together an understanding of clients’ needs and how best to engage different audiences in research to design and execute tailored approaches.

Lizzy Pottinger
Specialist sectors Animal Health, Food & Beverage, Retail Current location UKLizzy works closely with clients to understand their business needs, using her dynamic research skills to deliver meaningful project outcomes. With a Masters in Psychology, Lizzy is passionate about understanding human behaviour, identifying gaps and opportunities and impacting future strategy.
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Market research services
We work with the world’s leading brands, harnessing research to unlock new ideas, develop future strategies and power business growth.
Customer and market understanding
We bring businesses closer to their customers and help them navigate the broader market, so they can future proof their strategy.
New product development research
We partner with brands to develop winning products, from concept development right through to pricing research.
Brand and advertising research
We help brands create comms that cut through by understanding the messages which truly resonate with your target audience.
Online and offline fieldwork services
We’re a trusted fieldwork partner to top-tier organisations, providing them with the data they need to drive decision-making.
Insight activation
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.

Sectors we serve
With over 25 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.
How to run workshops that turn insight into action
How do you ensure that the research you commission moves your company to action, creating competitive advantage and growth for your business? In our free guide we share our top tips for preparing and running an effective workshop, as well as practical workshop exercises that you can take away, apply to your business and use to ensure that your research really does drive business change.
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Kadence wins Market Research Supplier of the Year and Outstanding Young Researcher
We are thrilled to have been recognised as Market Research Supplier of the Year (<$10m) at the Quirk’s Marketing Research and Insight Excellence Awards in the US. Kadence was also awarded the Outstanding Young Researcher (supplier) trophy, in recognition of the achievements of our very own Carolina Starkhammar. The Marketing Research and Insight Excellence Awards […]

Kadence is Highly Commended for the Global Agency of the Year Award at the Market Research Society Awards
We are delighted to announce that Kadence has been Highly Commended for the Global Agency of the Year award at the 2019 Market Research Society Awards. The Market Research Society Awards are the most prestigious awards within the UK research industry. They recognise the key achievements of individuals and organisations within the market research sector. […]
