- Angus Reid (market research)
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Angus Reid (born December 17, 1947) is the CEO[1] of Vision Critical and the company’s public affairs division, Angus Reid Public Opinion. He has been the recipient of a Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship,[2] the Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Pacific Region in the ""services" Category,[3] and was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Legends[4] in 2010. In 1996 he received an honorary Ll.D. degree from the University of Manitoba [5]
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Career
From 1979 to 2001, he was founder and CEO of Angus Reid Group, a market research supplier that grew into the largest research firm in Canada, with revenues of $60 million. It was sold to Ipsos in 2000.
In 2004, he became CEO of Vision Critical,[6] his son Andrew’s online panel company.[7] Shortly after, he created Angus Reid Strategies (now integrated with Vision Critical)[8] to apply Vision Critical’s technologies and to market research.[9]
Education
Reid has a B.A. and an M.A. in sociology from the University of Manitoba,[3] and in 1974 he received a Ph.D. in sociology from Carleton University in Ottawa. He has written numerous columns on economic, social and political issues as well as the best-seller “Shakedown: How the New Economy is Changing our Lives” (1996).[10]
Personal life
Reid resides in West Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife Margaret. He has a son, Andrew, and a daughter, Jennifer, and four grandchildren.
References
- ^ https://www.angusreidforum.com/Portal/members/det-Faqs.aspx#whatARS
- ^ Alexander Herman, Paul Matthews and Andrew Feindel Kickstart: How Successful Canadians Got Started. Dundurn Press, 2008
- ^ a b http://www.umanitoba.ca/admin/governance/senate/hdr/1024.htm
- ^ http://www.marketinghalloflegends.ca/enablers_angus_reid.php
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://www.mrweb.com/drno/news10692.htm
- ^ http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=3687013
- ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-210976761.html
- ^ http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/bcb/top-stories/2010/05/05/angus-reid-line
- ^ http://www.cbc.ca/books/reviews/1996/11/shakedown:-how-the-new-economy-is-changing-our-lives.html
External links
Categories:- Living people
- 1947 births
- People from Regina, Saskatchewan
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