Indian companies, foreign firms, consultancies and banks often need Indian market data but have no team here to collect it. Building one takes time, and keeping it busy is harder still. Hiring a general research agency brings its own problem: it has to find the right people in the trade before it can ask them anything.

We do the collection for them, through our own contacts in the industry: the buyers, producers and traders our analysts speak to every day for our prices. The work is done to your specification, in your format and on your timetable. If you want to publish it under your own name, you can.

How it is done
Interviews and trade sourcing, to the brief you set. We write the method down, how the information was collected, from whom and when, so your own reviewers can check it.

Who does it
One named analyst stays with the work from start to finish, with access to our contacts across the industry for the interviews.

Yours alone
What we collect for you is not resold and does not go into our own database. Anyone we contact for the work is told that it is commissioned, and that it will be published under your name.

Some clients need a single study. Others want the same questions asked every quarter, on a retainer of a quarter or more.

To start, we need the specification, the delivery format and the reporting timetable. We will tell you plainly if a question cannot be answered well from our contacts.

•  Access to our contacts across the industry for the interviews
•  Research to your specification
•  Delivery in your format and to your timetable
•  Method, sample and dates recorded for audit
•  Data gathered under the contract is yours alone
•  A named analyst for the engagement

Time
By engagement; retainers from one quarter.

What we need from you
The specification, the delivery format and the reporting timetable.

Terms
Scope, time and fee are agreed in writing before work starts.

What this work is not
This is commercial and market analysis. It is not legal, tax, customs, regulatory or investment advice, and it is not a recommendation to buy, sell or acquire any business or security. Please take your own professional advice before acting on it.