GE Global Research is one of the world’s most diversified industrial research labs, providing innovative technology for all of GE’s businesses. Global Research has been the cornerstone of GE technology for more than 100 years, developing breakthrough innovations in areas such as medical imaging, energy generation technology, jet engines and lighting. GE Global Research is headquartered in Niskayuna, New York and has three other multidisciplinary facilities in Bangalore, India, Shanghai, China and Munich, Germany. GE Global Research, founded in 1900 in scientist Charles Steinmetz's backyard barn, operates from facilities in Bangalore, India; Munich, Germany; Niskayuna, New York; and Shanghai, China.

Gen-Probe knows the answer is flowing through your veins. Gen-Probe Incorporated is a leading provider of diagnostic tests and instruments to detect HIV, chlamydia, and other sexually transmitted diseases. Gen-Probe also makes diagnostics to detect a host of infectious, disease-causing bacteria and fungi, including those behind tuberculosis, strep throat and influenza. In addition, Gen-Probe Incorporated makes products that screen donated blood for these diseases. Gen-Probe's products are designed to provide results within hours, while traditional cultured tests can take days. Major blood suppliers, including The American Red Cross and America's Blood Centers, use its products to screen much of the US blood supply.

General Atomics has more than nuclear energy these days. General Atomics, which was founded in 1955 to research atomic energy, continues to develop and operate nuclear power reactor systems, but may be finding more demand for its research and engineering expertise in areas such as unmanned military aircraft, airborne sensors, hazardous waste, superconducting magnets, and information technology. Through several divisions and subsidiaries, General Atomics commercializes and develops its technology to customers worldwide. Customers have included the US Department of Defense, the US Department of Energy, and National Science Foundation. General Atomics was originally a division of defense titan General Dynamics.

GeoMark has earned its place in the petroleum world through its analytical services and database products. GeoMark Research provides a number of research products and analytical services designed to help oil and gas companies maximize exploration and production efforts. GeoMark Research Ltd. oil and gas analyses services evaluate the history and origin of hydrocarbon samples providing valuable production information. GeoMark Research Ltd. databases include analyses of 49 potentially oil-producing regions worldwide, as well as reports on reservoir fluid data. GeoMark Research Ltd. also offers training in the use of geochemical data in oil exploration, and it is developing predictive modeling software.

GfK. is one of the largest market research firms on the European continent, GfK (which stands for Growth from Knowledge) tracks consumers' tastes in and purchases of grocery and nonfood items, broadcast media, pharmaceuticals, and other merchandise and services worldwide. Known as the GfK Group, the company operates through 115 smaller firms organized across three primary divisions: Retail and Technology, Media, and Custom Research. Other businesses within those divisions include GfK NOP, Mediamark, and GfK Healthcare. In mid-2008 GfK expressed interest in acquiring UK-based market research firm TNS, but a deal could not be reached.

GfK Custom Research North America is a flagship division for GfK Group, one of the world's largest market research companies. GfK Custom Research North America offers statistical sampling and methodology services, marketing sciences, online strategy consulting, and other related research services. GfK Custom Research North America primarily targets the automotive; consumer; financial services; media and communications; and technology sectors. GfK Custom Research operates out of about 15 offices in the US and Canada; GfK Custom Research North America also taps into its parent company's vast global network of subsidiaries and office locations which expands its customer reach across 70 countries. Headquartered in New York, GfK Custom Research North America is part of the GfK Group, the world's fourth largest market research company.

GfK Healthcare provides market research and strategic consulting services to pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical diagnostics companies. GfK Healthcare, LP market research services include qualitative, quantitative, product positioning, project management, and market landscape research. Clients have included Pfizer, Novartis, and GlaxoSmithKline. GfK Healthcare, LP is a segment of German market research conglomerate GfK Group. GfK Healthcare, LP utilizes its parent company's resources in order to reach more than 115 offices across 90 countries. GfK Healthcare was formerly comprised of three separate companies (GfK Market Measures, GfK Strategic Marketing, and GfK V2) until early 2009, when GfK combined them under the GfK Healthcare banner.

GfK NOP is the UK flagship outpost for the GfK Group, one of the largest market research companies in the world. GfK NOP provides custom research services to customers in a number of different industries, including the automotive sector, financial services, retail, and technology. GfK NOP specializes in brand strategy and positioning, consumer trends, field marketing, mystery shopping, merchandising, promotion sampling, ethnography, and other related marketing services. GfK NOP works closely with its parent company's vast network of offices to expand its reach to more than 70 countries around the globe. GfK NOP was originally founded in 1957 under the name National Opinion Polls.

The Girls' Intelligence Agency (GIA) is a marketing firm that collects information about the buying habits of about 40,000 female 'tweens (girls ages 8-to-13) through its "Slumber-Party-In-A-Box" marketing tool. GIA recruits girls, secret-agent style, to host slumber parties where they open a box full of never-before-seen products, including movie and TV previews, branded T-shirts, and samples, aimed at the 'tween market. Girls Intelligence Agency, LLC collects girls' reactions from thousands of slumber parties and reports them to clients such as Disney, Mattel, and Johnson & Johnson. Girls Intelligence Agency, LLC also hosts shopping trips and other all-girl events.

GMI was founded in 1999 with one goal in mind: make it easier, faster and cheaper for market research professionals to conduct global research. Global Market Insite, Inc. combines a worldwide online panel with proprietary software to help customers gather the information they need. GMI's online panel is active in more than 200 countries and territories, and data can be collected and analyzed in more then three dozen languages via the company's Net-MR software suite. GMI's offerings include specialty panels related to issues such as gaming, health care, and information technology. Global Market Insite, Inc. was founded in 1999 by former CEO Rob Monster.

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