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                <title>ADG Regional Updates - March, 2008</title>
                 <link>http://actiondatagroup.com/en/news/rnews.php?p=00000054</link>
                 <description>&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;
Our analytical department has made available the March editon of our regular ADG Regional Updates&lt;sup&gt;SM&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;
You can find it at our site in &lt;a href=&quot;http://actiondatagroup.com/ua/research/review.php3&quot; style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;'&gt;Ukrainian&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://actiondatagroup.com/ru/research/review.php3&quot; style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;'&gt;Russian&lt;/a&gt;.
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                 <category>ADG Regional Updates - March, 2008</category>
                 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:38:45 +0300</pubDate>
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                <title>Results of work Action Data Group for 2007</title>
                 <link>http://actiondatagroup.com/en/news/rnews.php?p=00000053</link>
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&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;The year 2007 is over, and &lt;b&gt;Action Data Group LLC&lt;/b&gt;
would like to thank all its customers and partners for the fruitful
cooperation. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;The last year was productive, and we hope next one
will be not worse.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Last year we started to offer a new service - &lt;a style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;'
href=&quot;http://actiondatagroup.com/en/services/webfocusgroup.php3&quot;
title=&quot;remote focus groups&quot;&gt;remote focus groups&lt;/a&gt; for Customers who cannot be
present at ADG’s focus group facility in person for whatever reasons.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;In addition to our own news, you can subscribe to &lt;a style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;'
href=&quot;http://www.actiondatagroup.com/en/rss.php&quot; title=RSS-news&gt;RSS-news&lt;/a&gt; or
&lt;a style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;' href=&quot;http://actiondatagroup.com/en/news/subscr.php&quot; title=&quot;ADG news&quot;&gt;short
sectoral reviews&lt;/a&gt; across a wide range of Ukrainian industry and business
sectors.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;In the year 2007, Action Data Group completed over 70
research and 15 consultancy projects, and some most interesting of these
projects are highlighted below.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;The
Ukrainian market of special fats. A competitive environment and needs. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Consumer
preferences of vegetable oils. Repositioning an existing brand (focus-group). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Revealing
of preferences to washing machines of premium-class.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Market
of air conditioners (focus groups, home visits, depth interviews).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Consumer
testing of kefir and sour cream (hall-test)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Consumer
preferences of snacks&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Mystery
Shopping at audio-video stores&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Assessment
of sales volume of certain categories of household goods in DYI markets&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;The
attitude to means for washing and their application (qualitative research –
focus group)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Consumer
preferences for brake fluid and a cooling liquid.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Analysis
of the Ukrainian market of PVC, polyethylene and polypropylene sanitary
engineering production.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Market
for means of protection of respiratory ways and faces; key players and market
size.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Revealing
of preferences at schoolboys to studying English and motivation of a choice of
educational institutions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Research
of market of the ware-house real estate of Kharkiv and 30-km area&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Research
of market of the commercial real estate of Dnipropetrovsk&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Research
of market of the market of wooden house-building&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Analysis
of the Ukrainian market of walls and ceiling overlapping from aerated concrete&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Monitoring
of cost and the prices for engine oils in Ukraine (recurring project)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Analysis of the market for dental-technical materials and their
preference&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Except for new customers we had new information
partners. We’d like to thank these web-resources:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;&lt;a style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;'
href=&quot;http://b2blogger.com/&quot;&gt;http://b2blogger.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;&lt;a style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;'
href=&quot;http://marketing.rbc.ua/&quot;&gt;http://marketing.rbc.ua/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;&lt;a style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;'
href=&quot;http://ukrbiz.net/&quot;&gt;http://ukrbiz.net/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;&lt;a style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;'
href=&quot;http://pr.adcontext.net/&quot;&gt;http://pr.adcontext.net/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;&lt;a style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;'
href=&quot;http://marketing-online.com.ua/&quot;&gt;http://marketing-online.com.ua/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;&lt;a style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;'
href=&quot;http://ukrindustrial.com/&quot;&gt;http://ukrindustrial.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;&lt;a style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;'
href=&quot;http://cfin.ru/&quot;&gt;http://cfin.ru/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;&lt;a style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;'
href=&quot;http://www.4p.ru/&quot;&gt;http://www.4p.ru/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;      In the coming year Action Data Group LLC
guarantees further fulfilment of its obligations towards our customers, despite
of everything.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Stay with us – we never let you down!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;</description>
                 <category>Results of work Action Data Group for 2007</category>
                 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:43:37 +0200</pubDate>
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                <title>A Happy New Year!</title>
                 <link>http://actiondatagroup.com/en/news/rnews.php?p=00000052</link>
                 <description>&lt;div align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dear
Partners, Colleagues, and Friends!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Sic transit another year.
Although the results are still to be evaluated, let us stop for a moment and
recall our success stories, of which there were plenty. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Remember the successful
projects, closed contracts, and new happy clients. Bring back that happy
feeling – the feeling of victory and success. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;And with this mindset let’s
move on to the new year, trusting that it will bring even more of the good
stuff – from our business, our communications, and our victories – all of which
are fully in our hands.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 10pt; color: red;' align=center&gt;&lt;b&gt;A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;' align=right&gt;Sincerely yours, &lt;b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'&gt;Action Data Group&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;</description>
                 <category>A Happy New Year!</category>
                 <pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:10:33 +0200</pubDate>
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                <title>Breaking-off relations with the web-portal Ukrbiznes</title>
                 <link>http://actiondatagroup.com/en/news/rnews.php?p=00000051</link>
                 <description>&lt;div align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Action Data Group informs our partners and clients about breaking-off relations with the web-portal «Ukrbiznes» (http://www.ukrbiznes.com) and stopping of the placing of our publicity information and other materials on this media.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;Although the materials placed from our name on this resource are actual yet, an update can be asked on web pages of other internet-media and on our web site.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;</description>
                 <category>Breaking-off relations with the web-portal Ukrbiznes</category>
                 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:27:32 +0200</pubDate>
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                <title>Action Data Group news delivered to your mailbox</title>
                 <link>http://actiondatagroup.com/en/news/rnews.php?p=00000044</link>
                 <description>&lt;p&gt;As of today, we introduce a new service at our website: subscription to our news and press-releases.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition to our own news, you can subscribe to short sectoral reviews across a wide range of Ukrainian industry and business sectors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To subscribe to our news please &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.actiondatagroup.com/en/news/subscr.php&quot;&gt;register here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
                 <category>Action Data Group news delivered to your mailbox</category>
                 <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:32:32 +0300</pubDate>
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                <title>Results of a focus group research</title>
                 <link>http://actiondatagroup.com/en/news/rnews.php?p=00000042</link>
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&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;&lt;b&gt;Action Data Group&lt;/b&gt; has completed a focus group
research for &lt;b&gt;Ficosota Syntez&lt;/b&gt; – Ukrainian representative office.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;The goal of the project has
been to define the attitude of consumers to means of washing and their
application and define the major
factors influencing consumers purchase.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;The separate research
problem was a question on consumer perception of trade marks the THEME and EXO
SAVEX.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;“On the sort of my
activity I had to see studios for focus groups in the various countries, where
our representative offices present – in Romania, Russia, Ukraine and,
naturally, in Bulgaria. They were different level of equipped, but such level,
as in Action Data Group studio, I have not seen yet. The system of three video
cameras and individual microphones is thought out very well”, - stated &lt;b&gt;Ilina
Racheva&lt;/b&gt;, Business Unit Manager of &lt;b&gt;Ficosota Syntez&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;&lt;b&gt;In brief&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;&lt;img width=75
height=51 src=&quot;http://actiondatagroup.com/en/news/070604/image001.jpg&quot; align=left
hspace=12&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ficosota
Syntez&lt;/b&gt;
is a fast growing Bulgarian company producing home care and personal care
products. Already a leader on a several European markets, company works hard to
offer its Customers the products that they need, the products that will offer
an effective decisions and guaranteed results.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align='justify' style='font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: 10pt;'&gt;&lt;img width=75
height=58 src=&quot;http://actiondatagroup.com/en/news/070604/image002.jpg&quot; align=left
hspace=12&gt;&lt;b&gt;Action
Data Group LLC&lt;/b&gt; is a marketing consultancy, operating in Ukraine and the CIS since
1995. ADG specializes in market research and consulting projects, competitive
studies, feasibility studies, due diligence and company evaluations, access
channel assessment, organizational consulting and bpr, as well as HR services.&lt;/p&gt;

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                 <category>Results of a focus group research</category>
                 <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:32:32 +0300</pubDate>
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