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New Zealand Knights FC

Market research carried out by the club, to determine the viability of a new identity for the team, indicated that 76% of respondents were in favour of a name change.


GfK

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.

Multiple choice

The multiple choice format is most frequently used in educational testing, in market research, and in elections, when a person chooses between multiple candidates, parties, or policies.

Opinion Research Corporation

Opinion Research Corporation is a demographic, health, and market research company based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Paul Pelosi, Jr.

Currently, Pelosi serves as Senior Vice President of Business Development at InfoUSA where he is responsible for identifying acquisitions and organizing programs to develop effective strategy for reducing waste and promoting greener practices in the market research industry.

Reuters Market Light

Following nearly 18 months of market research, prototyping and market trials, RML was launched in October 1, 2007 in Maharashtra by Sharad Pawar, the union minister of agriculture of India followed by launch in Punjab in 2008 by Mr. Prakash Badal, state’s Chief Minister.

SIS International Research

Its flagship full-service Market Research division, SIS International Custom Research, conducts custom Qualitative Market Research & Quantitative Market Research, Emerging Markets Research, Business Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, Focus Groups, Strategic Planning and Political Polling.

Skopos market insight

SKOPOS Market Insight is a global market research agency and communications research company with offices based in London, Cologne, Berlin, Paris, Johannesburg and Sydney.


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Ali Iman Sharmarke

In early 1999, Sharmarke and fellow Somali emigrants to Canada Ahmed Abdisalam Adan and Mohamed Elmi returned to Mogadishu following a period of relative calm in order to finalize market research that they had conducted on the feasibility and technological equipment necessary to start a new media company in the city.

Bill MacCormick

He then work for the Liberal Democrats and for the developers of the Polly, a then rival in the Liberal Democrats to EARS Electoral software and then in market research.

Carole Stone

In April 2007 Carole became Managing Director of YouGovStone Ltd, a joint venture with the online market research agency YouGov plc, where she established the YouGovStone ThinkTank – a global panel of over 4,000 people who are leaders in their field – the ‘influentials’.

GFK

GfK (Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung), a market research organisation

History of hard disk drives

In 2011, based on market research firm IDC, the biggest hard drive makers were Seagate Technology and Western Digital Corp., but the largest national producer was China, followed by Thailand which makes about a quarter of the world's hard drives.

Joan Brosnan Walsh

Brosnan Walsh attended the Dominican Convent on Eccles Street before pursuing a career with ACNielsen, a market research firm.

Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

She was educated at Roedean (where she was head girl), Heidelberg University, Queen Mary, University of London and the Polytechnic of Central London, and worked as a statistician and market research manager, including a spell with Shell-Mex and BP, before entering Parliament as MP for Wallasey, Merseyside, succeeding the former Cabinet minister Ernest Marples.

MafiaBoy

Matthew Kovar, a senior analyst at the market research firm Yankee Group, generated some publicity when he told reporters the attacks caused USD $1.2 billion in global economic damages.

Philip Klapwijk

After studies at the London School of Economics and the College of Europe in Bruges where he obtained degrees in economics he started work as an analyst with Gold Fields Mineral Services (now GFMS), a precious metals and base metals forecasting & consultancy company specialising in global gold, silver, platinum and palladium market research, reports, annual reviews and analysis.

Roy Batchelor

He has acted as consultant to a leading firm of London stockbrokers, an international market research organisation, the London International Financial Futures Exchange, the World Gold Council and a number of governmental committees.

Sierra Wireless

In November 2012, Sierra Wireless was recognized as an M2M market leader by market research and intelligence firm, ABI Research.

Snapchat

A February 2013 study by market research firm Survata found that mobile phone users are more likely to use SMS for sexting, rather than Snapchat.

Southwest Early College Campus

Sir Robert Worcester - Top British political commentator and market research pioneer

Stephen Dando-Collins

An independent marketing consultant for some years, he ran the Australian operations of an American market research company before moving to Noosa Heads, and then to the Tamar Valley in Tasmania, where he was born, and where he now writes full time.

Synovate Business Consulting

AMI was subsequently acquired by Aegis Group a media and market research group founded by Peter Scott in 1989 as a separate company based the original WCRS Group media buying division which itself was centred around the French media business Carat.

The Angel, Islington

From 1921 to 1959 the building was used as a Lyons Corner House and it is now a branch of the Co-operative Bank, with ORC International, a market research agency, occupying the floors above the bank.