Set up in 1980, the I+C Institute is a independent research company specialising in B to B economic and market intelligence.
TARGETS AND SPHERES OF INTERVENTION
We cover the main industrial sectors, SMEs and VSEs (all business sectors) on a European, national and regional level.
Among our most significant spheres of intervention are: the building and public works sector and building materials, car equipment and maintenance, energy and commodities, office supplies and computing, business services (temporary employment, upkeep, etc.) and distribution.
Our references in those main business sectors include leading companies (LAFARGE, VALEO, AREVA, 3M, MANPOWER, etc.) and a large number of professional bodies and specialised business publications.
THE INSTITUTE'S SERVICES
We offer a range of studies segmented into two types depending on our main customers (companies, professional bodies and the specialised press):
- Market and business intelligence covering economic monitoring (activity and prices),panels, customer satisfaction and development of customer loyalty barometers
- Market forecasts producing three sets of forecasts: projected activity trend charts, short-term materials price and cost forecasts, medium-term forecasts and market forecasts.
Those surveys allow corporate management to immediately make any necessary decisions and implement appropriate action to meet their sales targets.
THE INSTITUTE'S TOOLS
The Institute has equipped itself with the following three types of tools to produce its studies and provide its services:
- Surveys and exclusive specialised distributor panels (retail trade, wholesale trade, user companies, etc.)
- Economic and business databases resulting from the previously mentioned surveys, panels and company files.
- Highly segmented sectoral econometric models (construction-materials, energy-commodities, employment-labour market, car industry, capital goods, etc.) based on previous databases.
INSTITUTE'S
TEAM
The Institute employs some forty members of staff chosen for their training and experience.
> Its managerial team made up of:
Didier DAMERVAL, engineering graduate from the CNAM school for engineering and technology, managing director.
Bernard PIGANIOL, engineering graduate from the PARIS School of Mining Engineering and emeritus professor at Paris-Dauphine University, in charge of research and development.
> Its multidisciplinary team that processes the information and presents the studies, made up of marketing study officers, statisticians and economists.
> Its information-gathering team, a body of specialist interviewers supervised by two survey managers.
