Media Coverage
Origins has featured in several publications and press articles in Australia and the UK.
If you would like to write an article on Origins, or would like to use our product to create supporting data/visualisations for another topic, please contact Michael Dove or Richard Webber.
Australian Press Archive
Nguyens keeping up with the Joneses
4th September 2006 : The Age, Victoria
Changing names of Aussies
4th September 2006 : mX, Victoria
As common as Nguyen
5th September 2006 : Brisbane Courier Mail, Queensland
Lees catching up with the Joneses
5th September 2006 : Sydney Morning Herald, New South Wales
Nguyens, Smith and Jones
11th September 2006 : VietNet.com.au
UK Press Archive
What's in a Surname 1?
17th January 2006 : BBC, England
What's in a Surname 2?
6th June 2006 : BBC, England
Migrants with the mostest
10th September 2006 : Sunday Times, England
Barra 'the most Scottish' place
10th September 2006 : Sunday Times, Scotland
Who lives where in the capital
12th September 2006 : Evening Standard, England
Researchers identify "most Welsh" names
12th September 2006 : Western Mail, Wales
Patriotism - That's what's in a name
13th September 2006 : Scunthorpe Telegraph, England
Towns named as the most English
14th September 2006 : Ripley & Heanor News, England
About OriginsInfo
OriginsInfo is a trading name of MD&A Pty Ltd ABN 47 115 584 104.
MD&A Pty Ltd is a small Australian business providing consultancy and service in the area of customer segmentation and target marketing. Its principal is Michael Dove, formerly Director of Business Solutions at Pacific Micromarketing.
MD&A is the Australian and New Zealand partner of OriginsInfo Limited, the UK developers of Origins. Its principal is Richard Webber, visiting professor in the Department of Geography at University College, London.
Richard is the originator of Mosaic, the world’s most popular neighbourhood classification system. Mosaic is widely used in Australia and New Zealand to assist public sector and commercial organisations to better understand their customers.
Richard’s global leadership in the development of practical and valuable segmentation tools, together with 35 years of experience in public sector and private sector organisations, have now been applied to his recent research in the origin of names – hence Origins.
In Australia and New Zealand, OriginsInfo markets Origins. Elsewhere, Experian Business Strategies, a division of Experian - the international information services company - is responsible for its marketing and distribution.
