Caz Tebbutt Honoured

Caz Tebbutt was named in the Australia Day Honours List and receives the Order of Australia Medal for services to Australia-Fiji relations. The award citation makes specific mention of a number of reasons for her recognition, including:
• President of the Fiji Australia Business Council in 2007 and 2008, and Vice-President in 2005 and 2006
• President of the Rotary Club of Suva 2009-2010
• Established Clean Up Fiji
• Founding Chairperson of BAHA (the business coalition against HIV and AIDS)
• Founder of Tebbutt Research (the pacific islands first professional market research company)

Caz Tebbutt was “surprised, thrilled and very honoured” to have received the award.

Fiji Tops Global Poll on "Happiness"

“People in Fiji rate themselves as the happiest in the world”, says Caz Tebbutt, Managing Director of the Tebbutt Research group.

A new global poll on happiness conducted on the eve of the New Year shows that Fijians are the happiest in the world. Fiji tops the list of 58 countries surveyed in the WIN-Gallup International Global Barometer of Happiness. Tebbutt Research conducted the Fiji component of the survey.

According to the global poll, when asked, “So far as you are concerned, do you personally feel happy, unhappy or neither happy nor un-happy about your life?” 53% of the world sample said they feel “happy” while 13% said they feel “unhappy”. Another 31% said they were “neither happy nor unhappy” while 3% were unsure.

In Fiji 89% of the people surveyed said they were “happy”, 4% said they were “unhappy” and 7% were “neither happy nor unhappy”.

The WIN-Gallup International Global Barometer of Happiness produces a “Net Happiness” score or index that is calculated by subtracting the percentage that are “unhappy” from the percentage that are “happy”. For Fiji, the Net Happiness index stands at 85 (with 89% happy less 4% unhappy). The world index is 40, showing that the “happy” outnumber the “unhappy” by 40% points.

Download the full report (880kb PDF file)

Gold Coast Sevens

Gold Coast, 26 November 2011
Our office on the Gold Coast gave staff from Tebbutt Research a golden opportunity to attend the Rugby 7s and witness Fiji win the Cup.

Pictured here are two of our staff - Viema (left) and our MD and company founder Caz Tebbutt holding the cup with the manager of the Fiji Team.
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