Management consulting

Hire a market research expert in Greece and Cyprus

Evidence for a decision with money on it, gathered in a market where the published data stops early and most of what matters is held by people.

Market research in Greece and Cyprus starts at a disadvantage: the official statistics are coarse and late, and the knowledge that counts sits with distributors, buyers and insiders. A market research expert gathers the evidence a decision needs, and ends with a recommendation rather than a data dump. Typical briefs:

  • Sizing a market for a business plan, a feasibility study or an EU-funded program file
  • What customers really think, from interviews in Greek rather than a desk study in English
  • A competitor that keeps winning and nobody inside can explain why
  • A pricing or channel question the commercial team argues about without evidence

The market research experts on Hellenic Talent are elite professionals: alumni of the research teams of top strategy houses, market intelligence analysts and strategy consultants who do their own fieldwork. They triangulate rather than trust a single source, and say how confident each number is.

What does a market research expert actually do?

  • Turn the business question into research questions whose answers would change the decision
  • Size the market from several directions, and state how confident each number is
  • Interview customers and distributors in Greek, and know who will talk and who will not
  • Read competitors from what they do: prices, channels and hiring, not press releases
  • Test prices and channels with buyers before the commercial team commits
  • Write the market section of a business plan or funding file so it survives the reader

How to choose the right market research expert

What to test in the first conversation, whoever you end up hiring.

  1. Gets distributors to talk

    Can explain how they reach distributors, buyers and former insiders in Greek, and what those people will not say on record.

  2. Builds the number twice

    Sizes a market from the top down and the bottom up, then explains why the two results differ.

  3. Knows where sources stop

    Names which Greek and Cypriot statistics and registries hold up, and the year or segment where each one stops.

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Tell us what you are trying to get done

A short call is enough to understand the situation and tell you honestly whether the network has the right market research expert for it.

Engagements run remote, hybrid, or on-site, for clients in Greece, Cyprus, and the rest of the world.