{"id":10735,"date":"2017-05-22T09:26:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T09:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/?p=10735\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:54:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T11:54:16","slug":"importance-italian-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/fr\/blog\/sampling\/importance-italian-market\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of the Italian Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12528 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/kisspng-euclidean-vector-download-computer-file-parachute-delivery-5a7d58341ecf34.7603724815181640201262-292x300.png\" alt=\"sample delivery icon\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">A fresh start<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\">With its glamorous image and interesting investment opportunities in the Italian market, even though some structural problems of the past can still be felt, some will say that one would have to navigate serious challenges to make a success of doing business in Italy. However, Italy is ranked 45th out of 189 economies in the World Bank\u2019s Ease of Doing Business Survey for 2016. The country came first for ease of trading across borders and also did well in resolving insolvency (23rd) and registering property (24th).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\">Despite what the numbers of the past have shown, Italy is an interesting market and offers many good business opportunities in sectors such as life sciences, information and communication technologies, renewable energies, high-quality consumer goods, high tech design, and engineering products just to name a few. In fact, even North American businesses look at the Italian market with great interest. That is why Italy is synonymous nowadays with the concept of a fresh and potent start. Italian culture, its business environment, and the regulatory and legal requirements are certainly very different from their American counterparts, and it can be challenging for any foreign company to understand how to achieve its business goals in Italy, but once achieved, as Sample Solutions believes it did, the opportunities are countless &#8211; and the numbers in 2016 prove it. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Fast Growth<\/span><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot_2-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10736 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot_2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Italy\u2019s economy is now emerging slowly from recession. Estimates by the European Commission, Bank of Italy, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released recently indicate a moderate increase in GDP of 0.5 to 0.6% in 2015 and 1.1 to 1.4% in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\">Italy has undertaken a range of reforms over the past year. The Jobs Act, approved in December 2014, revises protections for new hires and has instituted the use of an open-ended contract with gradually increasing protections. A new banking law that obliges the largest cooperative banks to become joint-stock companies was passed in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\">How did that affect to the strength of the market? Read for yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\"> modern infrastructure <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\"> high level of internationalization and entrepreneurship, with fully integrated supply chains<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\"> strong manufacturing and innovation capability in several areas <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\"> gateway to Mediterranean and Middle-East markets, where the lifting of Iranian sanctions could increase exports by EUR \u20ac3 billion over the next four years<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\"> hosts many trade exhibitions with global appeal <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\"> one of the world\u2019s highest rates of household wealth<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\"> one of the world\u2019s top-five tourist destinations<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot_1-1-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10738 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot_1-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What makes us unique?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\">With all the previously mentioned factors in mind, Sample Solutions has quite the benefit in expanding its business in Italy and doing that business accompanied by italian establishments. We all know how difficult and challenging is to enter in a market that is so closed and picky, yet very worthy for the business. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #808080;\">The question that you should be asking is, what do we have to offer, that makes us unique and makes us the first option for sampling in Italy and beyond?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/it\/campione-telefonico\/campionamento-stile-di-vita-b2c\/\">Inhouse B2C database<\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Age, gender and location have never been easier to get, for the most competitive price on the market. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/it\/campione-telefonico\/campione-b2b\/\">In house B2B sample,<\/a> more than 19M records for all of Europe and a online database for Italian companies. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automotive sample &#8211; Targeting users of different brands and models, filtering by car, KM , year or engine, any request you might have it\u00b4s feasible cost effective with us.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is our main product of interest? Sample Solutions is a global premier sample provider who believes in the power of CATI. \u00a0The abbreviation CATI stands for Computer Assisted Telephone Interview and refers to the support of a telephone interview by a computer. Besides the obvious cost benefit there are way more important advantages of CATI:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fieldwork can be controlled easier at a single location<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Possible to collect data from outside a country<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faster turnaround times<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mobile populations can be included due to high level of cell phone coverage<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the Landline RDD Sample Italy we have started to identify all different phone number blocks using the block density analysis. Since an EPSEM approach is not possible due to the unknown variable number length it is needed to setup the correct proportions for the sample distribution within Italy. A client can also choose its own weighting or use the multi-level proportion setting for Italy.This method ensures that towards the end of a survey the collected data will be representative for the entire population in terms of attributes like area, age, gender, religion and so on. Phone Format looks like this: Area Code + Exchange Code + Random Number.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot_3-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10739 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screenshot_3-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sample Solutions is able to filter <a href=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/it\/campione-telefonico\/campione-rdd\/\">RDD sample<\/a> using a dialer to pulse the raw mobile sample and additionally, we can perform a provider lookup thus checking whether a phone number is actually switched on and within a certain mobile area, viz we can determine whether the phone is currently located within the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Clients<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though still in its infancy, Sample Solutions\u2019s Solutions&rsquo; the Italian market hasn\u2019t been without its due success. On the contrary! Only this year we have been In touch with several big players and equally important several smaller ones, and it\u2019s the quality of the relationship and mutual desire for a great finished product that is of utter importance to us. That\u2019s what brought in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsos.it\/\">IPSOS Italy,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iff-international.com\/it\/\">IFF International<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apertamentericerche.it\/\">Apertamente ricerche<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnresearch.com\/\">GN Research<\/a> onboard. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/highlights-assirm-forum-2016\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we already saw at the ASSIRM FORUM in 2016<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ( in which we will be present again this year), Our Client Service Manager for the Italian market commented: \u201cI look forward to the next edition of The Forum. We work in a very exciting <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">industry that is in constant movement and keeps changing, therefore we all need to keep up with the evolution of the market. This kind of events and workshops keep us up to date with all the innovations and helps us to enhance our knowledge of our client\u00b4s needs and demands.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ipsos.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10726\" src=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ipsos.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/iff.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10729\" src=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/iff.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gn-research.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10728\" src=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gn-research.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/apertamente.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10727\" src=\"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/apertamente.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fresh start With its glamorous image and interesting investment opportunities in the Italian market, even though some structural problems of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[17,62,75,18,63,19,55,15,45,30,61,38,31,40,34,24,48,41],"class_list":["post-10735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sampling","tag-b2b","tag-b2b-market-research","tag-b2b-platform","tag-b2b-sample","tag-b2b-sampling","tag-cati","tag-cati-interviews","tag-fieldwork","tag-global-sample-provider","tag-lifestyle-sample","tag-phone-sampling-solutions","tag-premier-global-provider","tag-rdd-sample","tag-rdd-sampling","tag-sample-solutions","tag-sampling-2","tag-sms-survey-platform","tag-survey-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23267,"href":"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10735\/revisions\/23267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sample.solutions\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}