With the objective of pursuing its global expansion, Ipsos took on new investment partners, selling 40 percent of the company to Artemis Group, led by François Pinault, and the Amstar investment fund led by Walter Butler.
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The GfK Group, established in 1934 as Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung (Society for Consumer Research) is Germany's largest market research institute, and the fourth largest market research organisation in the world, after Nielsen Company, Kantar Group and Ipsos.
In May 2013 The Sunday Times reported that Ipsos MORI had negotiated an agreement with the EE mobile phone network to commercialise the data on that company’s 23 million subscribers.
To date, Maximizer Software has sold over 1.6 million licenses to more than 120,000 customers in various industries, ranging in size from entrepreneurs to multi-national organizations, including: Hallmark Cards, HSBC, TD Securities, Gemcom, Ipsos, Vancouver Coastal Health, Royal LePage, and Cathay Pacific.