…ent research methods, management of the market research project process and research brief details. More information can be obtained from jan@herzmann.cz ….

…The company register confirmed a change in the company name to Herzmann s.r.o. One of the partners and company executice Petr Herzmann commented: “We want to show that – on top of our investment activities and asset management – we want to be active mainly in consulting and strategic analysis.”…

…On February 16, 2016 we had the pleasure to present results of a special survey covering financial experts to the auditorium of Forecasting Dinner 2016. In close cooperation with Donath Business and Media, we provided data on assessment of the economic situation, expectations and opinions on Russian and Chinese investments in the Czech Republic. The results can be downloaded at http://www.dbm.cz/pruzkumy/english/?id=156&forecasting-dinner-2016 ….

…As a part of the Czech Voter project, we published results of a poll aiming at the EP election. In According to our model, the winner would be ANO 2011 movement followed by the coalition Spolu. Three entities would fight for the third place, namely the coalition of SPD and Trikolóra, Pirates and STAN (Mayors). A good chance to win a mandate has Stačilo! Lead by the communists….

…In an interview with Josef Pravec I explain why ANO 2011 movement dominates the party preferences, what present polls say (and do not say) about future election results and why it is so difficult to forecast. Who wants to know my expectations of the future government coalition can find it in this Ekonom weekly interview, too….

…n for it. It is not a very cheerful read. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, opinions have partially changed, but society as a whole is still not ready to deal with current security threats. We have a prevailing feeling that we will not be able to pull it out, we cannot save anything in the case of World War III anyway, and let someone else take care of it, probably NATO. Historically, there were always many people in the Czech society who wer…

…Jan Herzmann, co-founder of Herzmann Investment and a well known analyst, left ppm factum group to be fully engaged in the family business. In a media briefing Jan Herzmann explained: “Today, exactly 22 years since I have participated in creating the Factum brand, I am leaving it alone. I am not going to produce market and opinion research any more, now it is time to assist in implementation of surveys in businesses as well as in the politics.”…

…Both our company and its partners take part in different charity project. On November 27, in an auction of UNICEF program “Adopt a doll and save life”, we purchased a doll granted by Burda publishing house. Our contribution enables vaccination of approximately 200 children in the poorest countries of the world….

…The consulting support of the mobile communication project HappyFeed goes on. In 2016, we spent a lot of time assisting the development of analytical tools integrated in the HappyFeed system, present activities are much more networking oriented. HappyFeed starts be used by more demanding clients and communities and we are proud to facilitate this process….