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Pete Haigh

Pete Haigh

Chairman of the Board at Mintel, the global market intelligence agency, after serving 16 years as its Global CEO.

Sep 29, 2026

1:23
I mean, I guess before we get to the Compare Media story specifically, I mean, how would you describe what's happened to market intelligence in your time initially as CEO and then as chairman of Mintel?
1:35
Crikey, that's covering 30 years.
1:39
It's been a huge amount of change over the last 30 years.
1:42
Bear in mind, when I started at Mintel, we had a printer in the data Everything that Mintel produced was put onto paper and bound and posted out to clients.
1:56
Now, if we were still doing that, I'm not sure we'd be quite doing what we're doing today.
2:00
Having said that, it's changed dramatically and excitingly.
2:05
We've seen so many revolutions in the industry to the industry's advantage.
4:04
I guess what was the problem back then when Compa Media was founded? What was the problem that was going unsolved? And then I guess, does that same problem still exist today or has it evolved into something else?

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