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- TRN is a business research consultancy working with predominately private corporate clients from major economies worldwide. Core skills include market and industry analysis, and policy research across a number of high technology and fast moving industry sectors.
- TRN was established by Steve Kremer and Yoichi Sumi. It brings together skills and expertise from experienced consultants and analysts with decades of combined business experience.
- TRN is based in southwest London, with a research network stretching across Europe, North and Latin America, Middle East and India, Asia-Pacific and Japan.
- TRN was established in 2005. Members of TRN have been working together across borders for more than 10 years.
- TRN is in business to bring top quality global research and analysis to planners and decision makers efficiently and quickly, by utilizing its global research network, and its local client liaison capabilities.
- TRN provides highly efficient, fast, reliable and proven business research solutions. If you need answers concisely, quickly, efficiently, and without busting your tight research budget, TRN will design the most efficient research solution and deliver top quality results when you need them.
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TRN offers a tool box of research services which we employ individually or in combination. This gives our clients the choice of the best possible mix of qualitative and quantitative results to suit their objectives, time-scale and budget.
Specific research services include:
- Market Research and Forecasting
- Industry Benchmarking Studies
- Technology Trends Analysis
- Business Policy Research
- Regulatory Impact Assessment
- M&A Partner Search, Screen and Evaluation
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TRN Ltd has conducted a wide range of business research projects in recent years in the inter-connected vertical markets of IT, telecommunications, transportation and environment, as well as serveral related market segments.
Recent projects are outlined below by sector;
Environment
Transportation Technology and Policy
Telecoms /IT
Electronics
Healthcare / Pharmaceutical
Government Procurement
Consumer
Environment: Recent Projects
- On-going research in support of product carbon footprint labelling standardisation in Japan, and in support of ISO 14067 standardisation activities.
- Impact assessment of REACH directive on chemical management in the supply chain of several vertical markets for chemical intensive product categories.
- Study on CO2 Registry Systems used worldwide in support of carbon trading initiatives.
- Study on processes used by automotive manufacturers to evaluate and incorporate the use of recycled plastics and renewable (i.e. organic) components in new vehicle design.
- Study on chemical management processes and environmental policy of global automotive manufacturers.
- Trends in implementation of RoHS directive for reduction of hazardous substances.
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Transportation Technology and Policy: Recent Projects
- Policy development and technology employed in Road User Charging projects worldwide, particularly in UK, Norway, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Singapore, USA and others.
- Research into uses of specific technologies and platforms within transportation, in particular RFID, DSRC, GPS, cellular positioning, Smart Cards, and electronic number plates, including the SINIAV project in Brazil.
- Global study on the emergence of telematics-enabled, usage-based motor vehicle insurance - also known as pay as you drive (PAYD) insurance. Particular focus on technological and commercial factors.
- On-going study of the European Market for Commercial Vehicle Fleet Management Systems (FMS) including detailed financial analysis of key players and a scenario approach to post-recession market forecasting.
- Analysis of strategies and processes for R&D management and innovation management at leading global automotive companies.
- Automotive industry research e.g. benchmarking leading global automotive companies in fields such as chemical management, and environmental policy.
- Regular bulletins, special reports and presentation for client companies and industry groups on transportation policy and emerging technologies.
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Telecoms / IT: Recent Projects
- Market, suppliers and deployment status of Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs) in the European telecommunications sector, together with an analysis of emerging business models to exploit their full potential.
- Global study evaluating vendors of sophisticated Intelligent Video Surveillance (IVS) and Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA) technologies and applications.
- Benchmarking study on the use of software engineering methodologies in the development of high reliability IT systems.
- Study of Emergency Planning and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) approaches employed by leading public and private sector organisations in the UK.
- Analysis of electronic trading platforms in Europe and USA for energy, commodity and derivatives trading.
- Survey of independent software vendors (ISVs) for commodity and financial derivative trading information systems.
- Analysis of market and competing technologies in the field of icon-based messaging.
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Electronics: Recent Projects
- Analysis of the global supply base and market for hard disk drives.
- Business modeling for development of a business unit based on home entertainment solutions.
- Analysis of buying decisions by micro-processor manufacturing equipment industry.
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Healthcare/Pharma: Recent Projects
- Investigation into capabilities of Contract Research Organisations (CROs) to support establishment of strategic alliances and M&A.
- Numerous business development projects for western pharmaceutical companies in Eastern Europe, Russia, Korea, and for Japanese pharmaceutical companies in Europe.
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Government Procurement: Recent Projects
- On-going research into implementation and coverage of WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) and EU Public Procurement Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC.
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Consumer: Recent Projects
- Consumer market research in UK, Eastern Europe, Japan and elsewhere in product categories such as beverages, food stuffs, cosmetics, toiletries and PVC products.
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