SDI Health isn't connected to the vice squad but it does keep a close eye on the drug trade. SDI Health LLC provides market research and sales data on prescription drugs to pharmaceutical makers, biotechnology companies, consumer packaged goods manufacturers, and other firms in the health care industry. SDI Health LLC database and online tools are used to target sales operations, manage marketing campaigns, and measure the experience of the customer. SDI Health LLC also performs survey and opinion research used to help pharmaceutical companies communicate more effectively with patients and physicians, and SDI Health LLC monitors regulatory affairs affecting the health care industry. SDI was established in 1982.

Second To None helps companies and their brands achieve a position without peers. Second To None, Inc. provides market research services including mystery shopping that measure customer experience and customer satisfaction. Second To None, Inc. also offers consulting services based on research, helping clients improve all points in customer interactions. Second To None, Inc. assessment tools include marketing and point-of-purchase audits, and the company's operational compliance audits ensure consistent marketing across locations. Second To None also provides competitive intelligence and employee survey programs. Founded in 1989, Second To None, Inc. serves small, midsized, and large businesses across industries including banking, restaurants, and retail.

SEMATECH (from "semiconductor manufacturing technology") is more than semantics. The not-for-profit research consortium pursues advances in chip manufacturing including design, lithography, and interconnect processes. SEMATECH, Inc. also provides custom wafer processing services and publishes technical reports for its members. SEMATECH, Inc. is funded by member dues. Employees from member companies -- Advanced Micro Devices, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Infineon, Intel, National Semiconductor, and Texas Instruments, among others -- carry out research at SEMATECH facilities. SEMATECH, Inc. consortia members represent about half of the worldwide chip market.

Senomyx, Inc. engages in the discovery and development of flavor ingredients in the savory, sweet, salt, bitter, and cooling areas using proprietary taste receptor technologies. Senomyx, Inc. has product discovery, development, and commercialization collaborations with seven food, beverage, and ingredient supply companies: Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Cadbury plc, Campbell Soup Company, The Coca-Cola Company, Firmenich SA, Nestle SA, and Solae. Nestle is marketing products that contain one of Senomyx's flavor ingredients. Senomyx, Inc. licenses flavor ingredients to its collaborators on an exclusive or co-exclusive basis. Senomyx, Inc. also has a collaborative research and license agreement with Campbell Soup Co. Senomyx, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in San Diego, California.

SGS North America, a division of global testing and verification giant SGS, offers technical services such as product testing, conformity assessment, quality inspection, product safety inspections, design reviews, statutory certification, quality assurance, environmental impact, and consultancy. SGS North America tests everything under the sun, and targets such industries as power generation and transmission, oil and gas refineries and pipelines, metals and minerals, agriculture, transportation, construction, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, and industrial manufacturing.

SGS is the world's inspector general. SGS SA is a leading provider of verification, testing, and certification services with more than 1,000 offices and laboratories in 120 countries. SGS SA inspects and monitors internationally traded agricultural products, minerals, petroleum and petrochemicals, motor vehicles, and consumer goods. SGS also offers certification services to international businesses and governments, as well as electronics testing, logistics, outsourcing, drug development, and environmental monitoring services. SGS traces its roots to 1878 when it got its start providing agricultural inspection services to European grain traders.

ShiftCentral provides competitive intelligence research and analysis services under its Ongoing Insight brand. Services include daily news and monthly analysis briefings, industry research services, benchmarking, due diligence, lead generation support, front line sales support, media analysis, and other market research services. Customers include Bank of Montreal, Atlantic Blue Cross Care, Insurance Bureau of Canada, Bell Canada, the Canadian Air Transportation Security Authority, and Agri-Food Canada.

Silliker has plenty of other ways to inspect food products. Silliker is a leading provider of laboratory services to the food industry, offering chemical and microbiological analysis services that help test for freshness, contaminants, and other possible problems. In addition to product testing, Silliker provides process validation services to research and development departments to make sure their research results will be accurate. Silliker, Inc. also provides quality assurance consulting, regulatory assistance, and plant and equipment design services. Founded in 1967 by Dr. John Silliker, it operates from more than 45 locations across 16 countries.

Sinclair Customer Metrics offers a full complement of research services designed to help its customers measure the quality of the service they provide to their customers. Sinclair Customer Metrics provides data on customer experience through on-site mystery shopping, telephone and Internet surveys, feedback interviews, and on-site auditing and inspections. Sinclair Customer Metrics also has tapped its experience in customer satisfaction measurement to offer clients employee satisfaction measurement options. President Robert Sinclair founded the company, originally known as Sinclair Service Assessments, in 1987 as part of his Sinclair & Associates advertising firm.

SIS International Research provides market research and analysis for clients in a variety of industries, including aerospace, food and beverage, and pharmaceuticals. Established in 1984, SIS International Research utilizes an array of survey methods (including telephone surveys, online panels, mystery shopping, and media tracking) as well as in-depth interviews to provide its clients with quantitative and qualitative research in such areas as competitive intelligence, market information, and customer satisfaction. SIS also specializes in medical, pharmaceutical, and B2B research, gathering its information through interviews with C-level executives. SIS International Research coverage extends to more than 120 countries globally.

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