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Professional services (bank, legal etc.)

Providing data on the Czech insurance claims market
Completion: 2011 - 11
Target markets: CZ
Objective: Our Dutch client wished to enter the Czech insurance market via acquisition of a local company.
Results: EasyLink prepared a MS Excel spreadsheet with data on the number and types of insurance claims in the Czech Republic as well as shares of insurance companies. The volume of total insurance claims in the Czech Republic grew from EUR 2 billion in 2006 to EUR 3.2 billion in 2010.
   

Recruitment agency wishing to provide international qualified staff to Romania
Completion: 2008 - 11
Target markets: RO
Objective: A Wales-based recruitment consultancy with a global reach was seeking local Romanian recruitment consultancies interested in collaborating in the area of recruitment of suitable candidates from abroad for the Romanian construction industry.
Results: The consultant in Romania identified and interviewed 15 personnel recruitment companies to ascertain their interest in working with the client.
   

Romania: Do opportunities exist for a U.K. business consultancy?
Completion: 2008 - 11
Target markets: RO
Objective: Our client advises mainly small and medium-size companies on a number of key business issues. EasyLink was requested to inquire with local business consultancies about opportunities for our client’s services in Romania.
Results: EasyLink’s consultant identified and interviewed 22 organisations and established their needs and requirements for outside consultancy assistance in the areas
   

Irish recruitment agency evaluates the Czech and Slovak markets
Completion: 2007 - 03
Target markets: CZ&SK
Objective: EasyLink was asked to estimate and evaluate market size of HR recruitment in general, and specifically of on-line recruitment via Internet job boards, and secondly to identify and provide in-depth profiles of all key players.
Results: We provided an approximately 20-page study for each of the target markets with all requested information, including detailed financial figures.
   

Updating an existing report
Completion: 2005 - 05
Target markets: CZ
Objective: EasyLink was asked to update an already existing report on credit cards.
Results: The consultant reviewed the almost 50-page report looking for inconsistencies, incorrect data, improper reasoning as well as finding and adding missing data and analysing events that took place after 1 March 2005, the date when the original report was prepared.
   

Research of the insurance and insurance brokerage markets in Poland and Romania
Completion: 2005 -
Target markets: PL,RO
Objective: Our client, one of the Czech largest companies specializing in insurance broking and risk management for large, medium as well as small-size businesses, sought EasyLink’s assistance to provide information on the local insurance and insurance broking market structure and size and regulations for setting up a new insurance broking company as well as to identify potential clients for industrial/corporate insurance and analyze methods and costs of effective setup and operation of a local branch office.
Results: Our reports, both very thorough - the report for Poland alone was 146 pages in length, addressed a number of issues including the insurance market’s key statistical data and structure, applicable legislation, position of insurance brokers, insurance companies, and sales channels by type of insurance. We further analyzed the market in respect to the potential client base as well as provided information on the steps required to establish a branch office and legal framework. We also carried out cost analysis and provided labour market data.
   

Czech Republic and Slovakia: Research of translation agencies and freelance translators
Completion: 2004 - 05
Target markets: CZ + SK
Objective: Our Polish customer requires a large number of English to Czech and English to Slovak translations within the IT and medical areas. The customer has experience with both individuals and companies charging higher prices once they learn the client is foreign. Our customer thus regards this project as a means of getting an understanding of the local pricing for high quality work. The client also needs to identify translation partners. However, prior to finding them he wishes to conduct research of the translation business in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Results: We relied on expert interviews with translation companies and translators as well as desk research to gather data on local rates for translations for local clients charged by translation companies and freelance translators, standards for calculating translation fees (e.g. counting per word or page or line and how many characters or words are there in a line or page and does this include spaces or not, what does “one page” mean), translator associations, organizations, conferences, medical organizations or conferences. We also identified the best places to advertise jobs for translators and inquired into rates for advertisements as well as what is the best day of the week to advertise in newspapers, online, in medical magazines/web sites and on university notice boards. In the second stage, we focused on identifying two kinds of partners (translation companies and freelance translators) in both countries and both sectors meeting very specific criteria set by the client. Prospective partners were then interviewed and asked for RFQs.
   

Study of the leading cleaning and maintenance providers
Completion: 2001 - 06
Target markets: CZ
Objective: We were asked to carry out extensive research of Czech cleaning and maintenance providers and identify potential partners.
Results: EasyLink contacted 15 leading companies in the cleaning and maintenance services sector that experienced strong growth in 1990’s, both in terms of financial volumes and number of jobs; the sector employed 31,000 people in 2000. We screened capabilities of individual prospects and determined their level of interest in a partnership with the client and prepared detailed profiles and analysed and compared services provided by individual players.
   


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