Greenfield Consulting Group wants to be seeing green when it comes to qualitative marketing research. Greenfield Consulting Group specializes in conducting online qualitative interviews for its clients using focus groups and Web-based surveys to gather data. Greenfield Consulting Group performs brand awareness and product research for a host of corporate clients including General Motors, Colgate-Palmolive, and MTV Networks. Greenfield Consulting also offers its services to marketing and market research firms. Services include brand equity assessment, demographic segment analysis, strategy development, and Web site analysis. Founded by CEO Andy Greenfield in 1983, Greenfield Consulting Group was acquired by fellow market researcher Millward Brown in 2002.

Greenfield Online harvests marketing data. Greenfield Online, Inc. provides survey research services, gathering demographic data over the Web from its panel of more than 1 million people. Greenfield Online, Inc. performs surveys to track brand awareness and test advertising campaigns for its clients, as well as to measure consumer interest in new products and services. Greenfield Online, Inc. Ciao subsidiary provides comparison shopping services for consumer products, primarily to the European market. Greenfield Online, Inc. was acquired by Microsoft for $486 million in October 2008. The next year, ToLuna, a global online research panel and survey technology provider, snatched up Greenfield Online for the significantly smaller sum of $40 million.

Guideline has found its niche in the consulting business. The company (formerly Find/SVP) provides rapid-turnaround consulting and research services to 1,700 small and midsized clients. Guideline, Inc. consultants and researchers typically handle day-to-day research requests in three hours or less. Guideline offers strategic consulting and research services that cover more in-depth issues such as industry studies and market surveys. Guideline, Inc. Guideline Group subsidiary offers traditional market research and consumer survey services, and its Product Development Intelligence unit provides technology market research. Guideline is a subsidiary of information services giant infoGROUP (formerly infoUSA).

Health Industry Insights (formerly Life Sciences Insights) provides information technology research and advisory services targeted to customers in the health care and life sciences industry. Health Industry Insights offers business intelligence and custom research services, as well as assessment and strategic consulting services. In addition, Health Industry Insights produces conferences and other events for industry players. Health Industry Insights was started in 2004 as part of IDC, the market research and advisory arm of technology publisher International Data Group.

Hispanic Research provides custom market research and ancillary services for companies looking to target the Hispanic market in the US. Hispanic Research Inc. conducts quantitative and qualitative research using focus groups, mall intercepts, telephone interviews, mail questionnaires, and various other methodologies. Hispanic Research Inc. research and consulting services can help clients in such areas as product testing, market positioning, advertising development and evaluation, and new business development. President Ricardo Lopez launched the company in 1999.

Hitwise Pty. Ltd. is an online competitive intelligence service that measures how an organization's Web site compares with those of online competitors by collecting Internet usage information. Branded product lines include Hitwise Competitive Intelligence Service, Hitwise Research Store, Hitwise Rankings, Hitwise Clickstream, and Hitwise Demographics, among others. Hitwise Pty. Ltd. publishes Internet traffic information (containing a sample size of 25 million people worldwide) for some 1,500 clients, which include marketers, ISPs, Web portals, and search engines. Credit-reporting agency Experian Group owns Hitwise, which was founded in 1998.

HP Laboratories lives up to the Hewlett-Packard slogan: Invent. HP Labs serves as the central research organization for its parent, developing such diverse products as business software and digital cameras, in fields ranging from commercial printing to molecular computing. HP Laboratories, which counts thermal inkjet printing, the pocket scientific calculator, and the 64-bit architecture behind Intel's Itanium microprocessors among its successes, partners with both HP businesses and select customers. Outside the US, HP Labs operates sites in China, India, Israel, Russia, and the UK. The organization was founded in 1966. HP Laboratories employs about 600 researchers.

hte offers materials research and discovery services for companies in the chemical and pharmaceuticals industries using high-throughput experimentation equipment. hte Aktiengesellschaft focuses on catalysis research for use in oil and gas conversion, polymer and plastics production, fine and specialty chemicals, and pharmaceuticals synthesis applications. hte Aktiengesellschaft also sells custom-built hardware and software parallel testing systems and licenses internally developed methods and materials. hte was founded in 1996 by, and is backed by, such investors as 3i Group and BASF.

Hydromer Inc., a bio-polymer research and development company, engages in the research, development, manufacture, licensing, and sale of hydrophilic polymer-based products and services to the medical device, pharmaceutical, animal health, biotechnology, industrial plastics, and cosmetic/personal care markets in the United States and internationally. Hydromer, Inc. owns patents for Hydromer coatings, which are used in materials, such as polyurethane, polyvinyl chloride, and silicone elastomers; ceramics; and metals. Hydromer, Inc. also has patents for permanent anti-fog materials, hydrophilic polyurethane foams, hydrophilic polyurethane blends, hydrophilic polyvinylbutyral alloys, various biocompatible hydrogels, and an anti-bacterial medical material. Hydromer, Inc. OEM medical device portfolio comprises bipolar coagulation probes; placement catheters, biliary stents; jejunal and enteral feeding accessories; guidewires; biofeedback devices for fecal and urinary incontinence; and other endoscopic accessories. In addition, Hydromer, Inc. sells anti-fog/condensation control, an optical coating that prevents the accumulation of vision-obscuring condensation under high humidity conditions for manufacturers of greenhouse panels, refrigerator freezer doors, industrial and medical safety and swim goggles, aircraft windows, automotive headlight assemblies, and gauge and meter manufacturers.

ICON plc, a contract research organization, provides outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries primarily in the United States, Ireland, and rest of Europe. ICON plc specializes in strategic development, management, and analysis of programs that support clinical development from compound selection to Phase I to IV clinical studies. The company's clinical research services include investigator recruitment, study monitoring and data collection, case report form preparation, patient safety monitoring, clinical data management, interactive voice response, electronic patient reported outcomes, medical reporting, patient registries, outcomes research, and health economics. ICON plc clinical research services also comprise strategic analysis and data operation, clinical pharmacology, bioanalysis, immunoassay development, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic analysis, study protocol preparation, regulatory consulting, product development planning, strategic consulting, medical imaging, contract staffing, and electronic endpoint adjudication. In addition, ICON plc provides various laboratory services, including sample analysis, safety testing, microbiology, custom flow cytometry, electronic transmission of test results, and biomarker development. ICON plc was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

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