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Who is CROP

A consulting firm in market intelligence, marketing research, opinion polls and trend analysis founded in 1965.

Life to ideas  is our value proposition. We identify the needs, expectations and attitudes of your customers, target audiences and audiences (Life) to make them aware of the relevance of your propositions, offers and innovations (your Ideas).

An exceptional partner to help you convert your stakeholders, armed with a thorough understanding of what motivates them.

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Our mission

To support you in converting your prospects and target audiences. To optimize the loyalty of your audiences and stakeholders and help you meet your goals.

To identify all the needs, expectations and attitudes of consumers and citizens necessary to help you (legitimately) convert them.

To offer you a unique perspective on the motivations underlying people’s actions, that explain their choices and attitudes.

To help companies, institutions and organizations fully meet the needs of their stakeholders by identifying all their aspirations, even the seemingly insignificant ones.

We have been helping clients optimally connect with their audiences since 1965.

Life to ideas — from individuals’ needs and attitudes to your boldest aspirations.

History

1965

CROP’s founding — Quebec was in the midst of the Quiet Revolution. CROP was the only Quebec-based polling firm at the time to bear witness to the profound changes occurring in the Belle Province. Sociologist Yvan Corbeil established the Centre de Recherche sur l’Opinion Publique (Centre for Research on Public Opinion), henceforth known by its acronym, CROP.

1967

One of the first public opinion polls to appear in the Quebec press was published by the leading English-language newspaper, The Montreal Star. The poll had been conducted by CROP: 72% of French-speaking Quebecers (whose spoken language was French) did not believe that General de Gaulle was advocating for Quebec independence when he shouted “Vive le Québec libre” from the balcony of Montreal City Hall on July 24., 1967.

1968

CROP began doing surveys across Canada. CROP became a pan-Canadian research firm offering a portfolio of market- and societal intelligence services.

1969

CROP conducted the first sociocultural market survey on why housewives were having trouble accepting ready-to-eat foods. They felt that these products devalued their role as wives and mothers!

1976

CROP launched the CROP Bulletin, the first quarterly omnibus publication on public opinion and consumer attitudes in the country. The trends and phenomena that CROP still monitors today began to be measured by this program.

1983

CROP launched the 3SC, CROP’s Sociocultural Change Survey System, whose exclusive Canadian license had been obtained a few years earlier from the French company, Cofremca. This research and consultation program tracked the changes in the psychology and core values of people in their role as consumers and citizens. The 3SC became today’s Panorama program.

2001

CROP added to its arsenal a series of experimental protocols (such as ethnography) to establish ever more intimate interactions with participants. CROP subsequently perfected these methods for online use (“nethnography”).

2011

CROP launched JAM, a research protocol that lets survey participants express themselves freely on any topic (through open-ended questions), while also commenting on the responses of other survey participants. At the end of the process, the results from all the ideas expressed and the most popular ideas are quantified. The ideal integration of qualitative and quantitative protocols.

2018

CROP invested in artificial intelligence (AI) and quickly gained expertise in querying large databases. By incorporating the values from its Panorama program, CROP was able to explain to clients how their databases could be exploited for marketing purposes.

2020

CROP launched the Milieus program after concluding an agreement with Vividata, the leader in Canadian cross-media and consumer research. Milieus is the result of the integration of CROP's database of Canadian consumer trends and hot buttons with Vividata's database on the consumption of products, services, brands and media in the Canadian marketplace. Milieus offers an in-depth investigation of Canadian consumer lifestyles and values.

Our Quality Policy

The CROP management team and employees are committed to quality and continuous improvement in all areas of the organization.  
By working as a team on the improvement process, we are determined to ensure a level of quality for the primary benefit of our customers.

CROP is an ISO 20252:2019 certified company.  View our declaration of compliance

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