Research Panel Asia Turns 3 and Wins 2012 Red Herring Asia 100

Written by: Diane Wagner

This Award Signifies RPA Is Poised for Tremendous Growth

This is an exciting time for us at Research Panel Asia.  On October 1st, we celebrated our three-year anniversary.  And, just prior to that, on September 12^th, winning a place on the 2012 Red Herring Asia 100! 

Since 1996, technology industry executives, investors, and strategists have valued the Red Herring Top 100 lists for discovering and advocating the most promising private ventures from around the world.  The Red Herring 100 Asia celebrates the exceptional accomplishment of Asian technology companies and entrepreneurs, recognizing those companies best positioned for explosive growth.  For the 2012 awards, Red Herring editors selected a short list of the most innovative and promising companies from a pool of hundreds across Asia.

To win, our CEO, Toshiki Sano, presented at the Red Herring 100 Asia Event in Hong Kong, China held September 10 – 12, 2012.  The event brought together 200 C-level technology entrepreneurs, corporate strategists, and venture financiers from across Asia to present their companies in the final stage of judging.  Sano-san presented a compelling case for why RPA is positioned for tremendous financial performance and growth, including:

• A client base that includes more than 70 of the world’s largest market research and online research firms from around the globe;
• An unparalleled ability to meet demands in emerging markets through a combination of RPA’s local insight, 24/7 operations, high quality and low cost; and
• A very aggressive growth strategy to expand throughout APAC – and beyond.

CEO Toshiki Sano Winning Red Herring Asia 100

Everyone at RPA is thrilled to be a 2012 Red Herring Asia 100 winner!  And we’re looking forward to much more industry recognition in the future as we move forward. 

RPA’s a Finalist for the 2012 Red Herring Asia 100

Written by: Diane Wagner

Hong Kong, Here We Come!

It’s always nice to be recognized – especially for when your company is being considered as one of the most exceptional technology companies out there. Such is the case with RPA recently having been nominated to be one of the Finalists for the 2012 Red Herring Asia 100 Award. 

 

We are honored to be considered for the Red Herring Asia 100 as this award celebrates exceptional accomplishment of Asian technology companies best positioned for explosive growth.  We definitely feel that “explosive growth” is likely for RPA as we’re well positioned to make Asian online research easy – anywhere in the world – with our global HQ in Tokyo and Regional HQ offices in Shanghai, Seoul, Manila and, recently, in Los Angeles.

 

For the 2012 awards, RPA has been selected along with a short list of innovative companies chosen from a pool of hundreds across Asia.  The Top 100 Asia winners will be decided at the Red Herring Asia Forum September 10 – 12, 2012.  Our CEO, Toshiki Sano, will be there in Hong Kong presenting RPA to the judges, with the winners being announced at a special award dinner on September 12^th.

In case you haven’t already, Red Herring is a company worth checking out.  Since 1996, their Top 100 lists have discovered some of the most promising private ventures from around the world including Google, Skype, Baidu, and many more.
 

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Announcement in regards to the re-start of sampling in Japan

Thank you very much for all your support and understanding to the difficult situation on-going in Japan.

We'd like to announce that we will re-start sending invites to our Japanese panel from today - Tuesday, March 15th JST.

However, for the mainly afflicted areas as follows we will refrain from sending out any invitations until we are able to confirm that the situation is settled down to normal. This is in accordance with the official determination of the national research association.

• Aomori Prefecture
• Iwate Prefecture
• Miyagi Prefecture
• Akita Prefecture
• Yamagata Prefecture
• Fukushima Prefecture
• Ibaraki Prefecture

For concerns or questions on any point with this arrangement, please do not hesitate to contact us directly.
Again we truly appreciate your continuous consideration given and to the understanding. 

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Second announcement due to the earthquake disaster in Japan

It has been three days since the massive earthquake hit the Tohoku region of Japan, however yet now, Japan is still facing threat of aftershocks and other secondary disasters caused by them.

Considering the situation, we have decided to hold from sending any invitation to our panelists in Japan today, Monday, March 14. Future policies of survey delivers will be determined among the marketing research industry of Japan, and we will make sure to send out an update for anything moving forward.

Our pricing and project management in the Philippines are operating as usual (24H for pricing/ 9AM-9PM JST for PM) and there will be no negative impact on the projects of other Asian countries we cover.

If you have any concerns or questions on any point, please do not hesitate to contact us directly.


Thank you so much for your understanding, and we truly hope things will settle down soon to focus in recovering of Japan.

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Announcement due to the earthquake disaster in Japan

As been reported, a massive earthquake hit the Tohoku region of Japan on Friday, March 11th afternoon local time. As of now yet, the whole country including the Tokyo metropolitan area is under threat of continuous aftershocks and Tsunami caused by them.

However first we would like our clients and partners to know that we have confirmed the safety of all our staffs now based in our Tokyo Headquarter office.

We are still trying to get a handle of the situation, but in regards to the assumed impact to our services, we do need to make it clear that there is a very high possibility of delaying in progress of any projects now in field or those scheduled to be launched soon. In respect to our panelists and considering the situation, we will be holding from sending out any new survey invitations at least for the weekend, and for the policies from next Monday we will be determining according to the circumstances.

Our pricing team and project management team in Manila, Philippines will be operating from Monday as usual, and we'd like to assure that there will be no negative impact to the projects of other Asian countries we cover (including our proprietary panel in China and South Korea). 

Whenever we have further update in the situation of Japan, we will make sure to announce again. For any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us directly.

We truly appreciate all your kind consideration given and thank you for your understanding.

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