The Futures Company wants to help its clients see what's coming around the bend. The Futures Company specializes in surveying trends in both global and US consumer markets; it also offers custom market research and consulting services. Clients come from industries such as consumer packaged goods, financial services, pharmaceuticals, and technology. The Futures Company is a unit of global research leader The Kantar Group, which is turn is part of advertising and communications conglomerate WPP. The Futures Company was formed in 2008 from the combination of two WPP companies: UK-based Henley Centre HeadlightVision and US-based Yankelovich.

The Intelligence Group, which does business as Youth Intelligence, is a marketing research and consulting company that tracks and forecasts the behavior of consumers ages 14 to 39. The Intelligence Group operates as an autonomous unit within Creative Artists Agency (CAA), working with the CAA Marketing division. Clients have included Cosmopolitan, Microsoft, Motorola, and L'Oreal. The Intelligence Group runs a Web site called Trend Central, which spotlights new style, technology, lifestyle, and entertainment trends. Other groups that the company tracks are college students, new parents, Latino youth, and urban youth.

The Kelsey Group provides market research on electronic directories, local media, and the Yellow Pages business. The Kelsey Group helps businesses evaluate and act upon the social, economic, and technological trends that affect the local advertising market. Clients consist of large and small directory publishers, major search engines developing local search capabilities, and companies in the online advertising sector. In addition to its research services, The Kelsey Group, Inc. leverages its expertise to provide consulting services and to host industry conferences. Chairman John Kelsey and his wife, Pam, founded the company in 1986.

The Marketing Workshop provides a variety of marketing research and survey services, including focus groups, telephone surveys, online surveys, and even online focus groups conducted in a chat room. Founded in 1972, the Marketing Workshop has provided marketing research and data collection services for clients in such industries as automotive, health care, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications. President and CEO Jim Nelems is the authors of Research to Riches: The Secret Rules of Successful Marketing.

The MITRE Corporation may not be able to cut perfect angles, but it can provide some fine systems engineering and information technology (IT) services. The not-for-profit organization develops, analyzes, and protects information systems for the US Department of Defense, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Federal Aviation Administration. MITRE's four Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) provide such services as systems engineering, systems integration, and IT consulting. Founded in 1958 by former MIT researchers, MITRE also designs surveillance and reconnaissance systems and provides air traffic management services. The MITRE Corporation employs about 7,000 scientists, engineers, and support specialists.

The Myers Group provides market research and survey services primarily to clients in the health care industry. The Myers Group offers data collection services and custom surveys to help clients measure and improve customer satisfaction for managed care organizations, hospital systems and physician group practices, and pharmaceutical firms. The Myers Group has also expanded its expertise beyond the health care sector, serving clients such as federal and state agencies, business and industry coalitions, as well as other market research firms. The Myers Group was established in 1993.

The NPD Group helps its more than 1,700 clients fatten their coffers by giving them the skinny on consumer behavior. A global market research firm, the company tracks consumer buying behavior both online and in stores through panels consisting of more than 3 million consumers and electronic feeds from cash registers. The NPD Group, Inc. offers market insight across numerous industries including apparel, consumer electronics, foodservice, music, software, and video games. In addition, The NPD Group, Inc. DisplaySearch segment offers market research analysis specializing in the flat-panel display industry. Controlled by chairman and CEO Tod Johnson, NPD Group operates through about 25 offices in North America, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific.

The PreTesting Company provides research on advertising effectiveness to clients in a wide range of industries and across a plethora of media channels. The PreTesting Company, Inc. measures how consumers respond to ads in a real world environment (do they change channels?) and how they react to ads to which they are exposed. Not limited to television ads, the company helps measure effectiveness of advertising in print, packaging, radio, outdoor, and direct mail campaigns. PreTesting's research and insights can then be used as a solid basis for creating more effective advertising campaigns. The PreTesting Company, Inc. testing career began in 1983 when it was founded by CEO Lee Weinblatt and president Vivian Edelberg.

Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) is here to make government innovation cast a wider net. The NTTC's reason for being is to make federally funded research available to private industry, to find new applications for new inventions, technologies, and products. Located at the campus of Wheeling Jesuit University, the NTTC connects federal organizations like NASA, FEMA, and the EPA, to partners including Fortune 500 companies, small enterprises, universities, and research institutions. The NTTC was established by Congress in 1989.

The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is a not-for profit organization that performs basic biomedical research in molecular and cellular biology, chemistry, immunology, neuroscience, disease, and vaccine development. TSRI receives the majority of its funding from federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health. TRSI opened a second facility in Florida in 2009. The Scripps Research Institute also partners with pharmaceutical companies and is affiliated with the Scripps hospital group. The Scripps Research Institute staff includes more than 3,000 scientists and lab technicians, and the organization traces its history back to 1924, when philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps founded Scripps Metabolic Clinic.

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