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Market Research, Reports & Services: 2008 Final Market Size and Share Report

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Author: Louise Garnett, Vice President, Outsell Scout Analytics

This report provides an in-depth view of the Market Research, Reports & Services (MRRS) marketplace, which we size at $33.1 billion with a growth rate of 7.9% in 2008. The dominant players in this segment are Nielsen, WPP-IIC (Kantar, TNS), IMS Health, and GfK. In this report, we detail the size, growth rates, and market shares of the top 50 MRRS publishers and information providers and identify the significant issues and trends facing them and their markets. The report provides advice and essential actions for companies that want to create revenue opportunities, attract new buyers, and achieve competitive advantage, and it supports those who cover and need greater understanding of the MRRS segment, including suppliers to the industry, investment bankers and analysts, and journalists. This is the latest in our annual series of market size and share reports for the segments of the information industry. The report includes:

- An overview of the MRRS market, including size and growth data from 2004-2008;
- Data on top MRRS companies’ revenue broken out by geography, content format, and business model;
- Analysis of the subsegments, Market Research and Market Reports & Services, with company-by-company performance analysis of the top 10 in each subsegment;
- Analysis of key trends in MRRS;
- A table with revenue, growth, CAGR, and market share for the top 50 companies in the segment;
- Essential actions for publishers and information providers in the MRRS segment.


Pub Date: August 25, 2009
Type: Market Size & Share Report
Segments: ITTRRS MRRS
Keywords: Market Statistics, Market Analysis
Pages: 47
Format: PDF Application_pdf

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Table of Contents

  • Why This Market Size and Share Report?
  • Market Research, Reports & Services Market Size
    1. Market Research
    2. Market Reports and Services
  • Market Research, Reports & Services
    1. Market Overview
    2. Impact of M&A
    3. Impact of Currency Conversion
  • Leading Players in Market Research, Reports & Services
    1. Market Size vs. Growth
  • Revenue Analysis of Market Research, Reports & Services Segment
    1. Content Format
    2. Business Models
    3. Geography
  • Market Research Subsegment
    1. Leading Players
  • Market Reports and Services Subsegment
    1. Leading Players
  • Key Market Research, Reports & Services Trends
  • Essential Actions
  • Related Research
  • Methodology
  • Appendix

    • Tables & Figures

  • Table 1. Size of Market Research and IT & Telecom Research, Reports & Services Market, 2008
  • Table 2. Market Research, Reports & Services Subsegments, 2008
  • Figure 1. Market Research, Reports & Services, Revenue and Growth, 2004-2008
  • Table 3. Revenue Performance of Top 10 MRRS Companies by Size, 2006-2008
  • Table 4. Selected MRRS Merger and Acquisition Activity, 2008 and First Half 2009
  • Table 5. Currency Effects of Conversion from Pounds, Euros, and Yen into Dollars, 2007-2008
  • Table 6. Reported, Underlying, and Constant Revenue Performance of Top 10 Vendors, 2006-2008
  • Figure 2. Top 10 Market Research, Reports & Services Companies, Growth & Market Share, 2008
  • Table 7. Top 10 Market Research, Reports & Services Companies, Content Format, 2008
  • Table 8. Top 10 Market Research, Reports & Services Companies, Business Models, 2008
  • Table 9. Top 10 Market Research, Reports & Services Companies, Geography, 2008
  • Table 10. Revenue Performance of Top 10 Market Research Companies by Size, 2007-2008
  • Table 11. Revenue Performance of Top 10 Market Reports and Services Companies by Size, 2007-2008
  • Table 12. Top 50 Market Research, Reports & Services Companies, 2008

Companies Mentioned

  1. Arbitron, Inc.
  2. Cision AB
  3. Corporate Executive Board
  4. CoStar Group, Inc.
  5. Decision Resources
  6. Frost & Sullivan
  7. Gerson Lehrman Group
  8. GfK SE
  9. IMS Health, Inc.
  10. Information Resources, Inc.
  11. Ipsos
  12. R. L. Polk & Co.
  13. RAND Corporation
  14. Surveillance Data, Inc. (SDI)
  15. Synovate
  16. The Advisory Board Company
  17. The Nielsen Company
  18. TNS Global
  19. Wood Mackenzie
  20. WPP-Consumer Insight