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Swift Research becomes employee-owned

Since it was founded in 1985, Swift Research has grown from a small start-up set up by two friends, into a leading research agency in the sensory and fragrance sector, helping to shape the future of household products by providing insight to international corporations and global fragrance houses across Europe and beyond.

On Friday 24th November 2023, Swift Research are proud to announce they have become an employee-owned business after 38 years of private ownership.

Making Sense of Research in our Sensory Centre

As government restrictions are relaxed we are looking forward to welcoming you back to our research facilities in Wetherby and can't wait to share the next stage of development for our Sensory Centre.

Even with the largest sensory facility in the North of England, the unprecedented demand we saw last Autumn has led to further expansion which will see us double our number of sealed testing booths.

Face-to-face research during a pandemic

For an industry which thrives and relies on human interaction, it was initially hard to envisage a way back for face-to-face research once the coronavirus pandemic took hold across the globe.

But, like many out there, we adapted to the "new normal" and, as we're now preparing to exit lockdown for the third time, it feels very different to our initial re-opening last Summer. This time we've already overcome the challenges and raring to go again!

35 years of Swift Research - how it started and how it's going

Whilst last year will be remembered for many things, it was also the year we proudly celebrated our 35th anniversary here at Swift. So, as we close the book on 2020, we thought it was the perfect opportunity to look back at the past three and a half decades and see how we have adapted to the ‘new normal’ in which we’ve found ourselves over the past year.