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Press Release 6th March 2008
UK based Cobalt Sky extends its use of Memphis software.

Cobalt Sky is a leading provider of IT Services for the Market Research industry. They provide the most dynamic and innovative market researchers with reliable, efficient and worry-free data capture, processing and delivery.

Their services include:

IT systems for all aspects of survey operations, including panel management, portals and information delivery on the web.
Web surveys.
CAI and Data Processing set ups.
Consultancy and training for SPSS Dimensions software.
Project management on and off site.
Vector and Winyaps software for information delivery.

Press Release 12th February 2008
London based Synovate Healthcare extends software use to pharmaceutical giant.

As of November 19, 2007, Organon is now part of the American pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough. This combination holds significant promise and allows them to build an even stronger and better company for the long-term.

Bringing together the rich histories and complementary strengths of the separate entities, they are moving forward as an innovation-driven, science-centered global health care company. Through their own biopharmaceutical research and collaborations with partners, Schering-Plough creates therapies that help save and improve lives around the world.

Press Release 4th February 2008
UK television company Channel4 renews licences to use Survey Explorer from Memphis.

Channel 4 is a public-service television and radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom, centred around a television channel of the same name which began transmissions on November 2, 1982. Although entirely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned: Originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by the Channel Four Television Corporation, a public body established in 1990 for this purpose and which came into operation in 1993, following the abolition of the IBA.

The station was established to provide a fourth television service to the UK that would break the duopoly of the BBC's two established television services and the single commercial broadcasting network, ITV, then the only services in the UK. Though having seen new competition through the subsequent availability and growth of cable, satellite and digital terrestrial services, Channel 4 still enjoys almost universal coverage in the UK, coverage in some neighbouring countries and a significant audience share.

Channel 4 was established with, and continues to hold, a remit of public service obligations which it must fulfill.

Press Release 29th January 2008
Research firm Swiss Peaks extends use of Survey Transformer software.

SwissPeaks, established in 1998, is an independent and enterprising market research services company. They are dedicated to providing quality and advanced survey management solutions at competitive prices to those who consider market research vital to business decision-making in today's competitive global marketplace.

Press Release 21st January 2008
London based Synovate Healthcare extends software use to pharmaceutical giant.

Already by the 1960’s Menarini had realised the importance of broadening its horizons beyond its domestic borders. In fact, the establishment of Laboratorios Menarini of Barcelona, Spain dates back to this period.

The 1970’s were characterised by the strengthening of Menarini's position in Italy which was consolidated the following decade by numerous agreements made with other important Italian pharmaceutical companies.

Once Menarini reached first position in the ranking of Italian pharmaceutical companies in the 1990's, it focussed on its rapid expansion throughout Europe and the world with the acquisition or opening of affiliate companies.

Press Release 31st December 2007
Icelandic MR leader extends use of Survey Explorer and Survey Transformer through 2008.

Capacent (formerly IMG) is based on the solid foundation of a few powerful veteran consulting, recruitment, and research companies. Capacent emerged in its current form early in 2005, when IMG and KPMG Consulting united their forces to create the largest and most powerful knowledge company in it’s field in Iceland. Courage and a determination to evolve define this young company. The company as it is today has been formed through several mergers aimed at creating a world-class knowledge company.

The foundation for Capacent Research was laid in 1990 with the creation of the research company Íslenskar markaðsrannsóknir. Two years later, the company acquired the commission for Gallup in Iceland. The company specialised in marketing research, earning a reputation for objective and reliable methodologies in its surveys early on. The partnership with Gallup International has been significant for the research department as Gallup is one of the oldest and most reliable research companies in the world. Capacent Research is also connected to other international research companies; the largest of these is AC Nielsen.

Press Release 31st December 2007
Hall & Partners (Europe) renews its 'unlimited' licence for Memphis Survey Explorer software.

Based in London, Chicago, LA and New York, Hall & Partners is a global leader in Market Research, working for and with many blue-chip and household names throughout Europe and North America.

Press Release 5th December 2007
London based Infocorp extends its longstanding relationship with Memphis software.

INFOCORP are specialist providers of Market Research Data Collection and Analysis.

They aim to provide an efficient, innovative, independent and cost- effective service. Each of their services has been especially designed with the needs and requirements of their clients in mind.

Press Release 3rd December 2007
Hall & Partners US extends use of Survey Explorer for another year.

Based in London, Chicago, LA and New York, Hall & Partners is a global leader in Market Research, working for and with many blue-chip and household names throughout Europe and North America.

Press Release 6th November 2007
InterContinental Hotels increases use of Survey Explorer outside US offices

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) is a multinational company which operates several hotel brands. It is the largest hotel company by number of rooms (556,000 as of March 2007), and is headquartered in Windsor just outside Greater London

InterContinental Hotels Group can be traced back to 1777 when William Bass began a brewery in Burton-upon-Trent. In 1876 their red triangle trademark was the first registered in the United Kingdom.

In 1989 the British Government limited the number of pubs brewers could directly own, so Bass began to grow their small line of hotels. In 1990 they purchased Holiday Inn International from Kemmons Wilson, expanding themselves into North America. In March 1998 they acquired the InterContinental brand, expanding into the luxury market.

In 2000 the company sold its brewing assets (and the rights to the Bass name) to the major Belgian brewer Interbrew for £2.3 billion and changed its name to Six Continents PLC. IHG was created in 2003 after Six Continents PLC split into two daughter companies: Mitchells and Butlers PLC, to handle restaurant assets and IHG to focus on hotels and soft drinks. Britvic, the company's soft drinks division, was retained by IHG until December 2005, when IHG sold its interest in the company by an initial public offering.

Press Release 27th November 2007
MR giant Millward Brown takes Survey Explorer into France.

Millward Brown is one of the world’s top 10 consumer market research organizations with wholly owned operating companies in more than 40 countries. With more than thirty years of empirical learning, Millward Brown has built its business on measuring consumers' awareness, attitudes, and response to brands and advertising. They are a recognized innovator of global tracking studies.

Millward Brown has been a pioneer conducting and transitioning to online research in the US and UK as early as 1995.They are now able to field custom online studies in a growing number of markets around the globe including most of the world's largest economies.

Press Release 21st November 2007
Research firm Swiss Peaks extends use of Survey Explorer and Survey Transformer software.

Press Release 6th November 2007
Schering Plough giant to use Survey Explorer software.

Schering-Plough Corporation is a pharmaceutical company founded in 1851 by Ernst Schering as Schering AG in Germany. Following the entry of the United States into World War II in 1941, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered Schering AG's U.S. assets be seized. These became Schering Corporation. The company was placed under a government administratorship until 1952, when it was released and its assets sold to the private sector. In 1971, the Schering Corporation merged with Plough to form Schering Plough.

Today Schering Plough manufactures several pharmaceutical drugs, the most well-known of which are the allergy drugs Claritin and Clarinex, and through a collaboration with Merck & Co., Vytorin, an anti-cholesterol drug.

Schering Plough also owns and operates the major foot care brand name Dr. Scholl's and the skin care line Coppertone.

Press Release 6th November 2007
Survey Explorer in the Highlands with Highland Distillers.

Highland Distillers was founded in 1887 by the Robertson family. In 1970 Highland purchased Matthew Gloag & Son Ltd., producers of the Famous Grouse blended whisky and acquired The Macallan single malt Scotch producers in 1996. Highland also produced the Highland Park brand whisky. Highland Distillers was purchased by the Edrington Group in 1999. William Grant & Sons and the Edrington Group took Highland Distillers private in 2000.

Press Release 5th November 2007
Digitab (a TNS company) extends its work with Survey Explorer software.

Digitab are specialists in Data Analysis and Reporting Services for Survey and Marketing Research. Digitab have developed a range of services which are designed to help in all aspects of research projects, from data collection through to the final presentation.

Press Release 23rd July 2007
Dyson to study its MR with Survey Explorer software.

James Dyson is a man who likes to make things work better. With his research team he has developed products that have achieved sales of over £3 billion worldwide.

James Dyson's first product, the Sea Truck, was launched in 1970 while he was studying at the Royal College of Art. A few years later came the award-winning Ballbarrow that can go where no wheelbarrow has ever been before. Then there was the Wheelboat and the Trolleyball. Even the integral hose, seen on most upright vacuum cleaners, is a Dyson invention.

In 1978, James Dyson noticed how the air filter in the Ballbarrow spray-finishing room was constantly clogging with powder particles (just like a vacuum cleaner bag clogs with dust).

So he designed and built an industrial cyclone tower, which removed the powder particles by exerting centrifugal forces greater than 100,000 times those of gravity.

Could the same principle work in a vacuum cleaner? James Dyson set to work. 5 years and 5,127 prototypes later, the world's first bagless vacuum cleaner from Dyson arrived.

Press Release 3rd July 2007
Lloyds TSB uses Survey Explorer for MR analysis.

The origins of Lloyds Bank stretch back to 1765, when John Taylor and Sampson Lloyd set up a private banking business in Birmingham, England. In 1865 the partnership changed its status to a joint-stock company, naming itself Lloyds Banking Company Limited.

1988 saw the Bank merge five of its businesses with the Abbey Life Insurance Company to create Lloyds Abbey Life.

By the early 1990s, Lloyds Bank had offices in 30 countries, from Argentina to the USA, building a new headquarters for its UK Retail Banking Division in Bristol and acquiring the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation. In New Zealand, an already commanding presence as the National Bank of New Zealand was further strengthened by the 1994 take-over of the Rural Bank, making it the leading provider of agricultural finance.

On 1 August 1995, Cheltenham & Gloucester (C&G) joined the Lloyds Bank Group. Later the same year, on 28 December, Lloyds Bank Group merged with TSB Group to form Lloyds TSB Group plc, one of the largest forces in domestic banking.

Press Release 19th June 2007
Heineken Ireland: Another brewing giant opts for Memphis software.

Heineken has wide international presence through a global network of distributors and breweries. Heineken owns and manages one of the world’s leading portfolios of beer brands and is one of the world’s leading brewers in terms of sales volume and profitability. Their principal international brands are Heineken and Amstel, but the group brews and sells more than 170 international premium, regional, local and specialty beers, including Cruzcampo, Tiger, Zywiec, Birra Moretti, Ochota, Murphy’s and Star.

Press Release 11th June 2007
Synovate Healthcare chooses Survey Explorer.

Synovate Healthcare is a full service healthcare market research agency. Established in 1973, they have international offices across Europe, Asia and the USA. Memphis software is also in use across their "Launch Essential" software, tracking the launch of new drugs.

Press Release 15th May 2007
InBev giant signs up to study its MR with Survey Explorer software.

InBev is the world's leading brewer, realizing 14.4 billion euro in 2007. The company has a strong, balanced portfolio, holding the number one or number two position in over 20 key markets – more than any other brewer. It has a key presence in both developed and developing markets.

Headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, InBev employs almost 89 000 people worldwide. With sales in over 130 countries, the company works through six operational zones: North America, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America North, and Latin America South.

Press Release 11th May 2007
Survey Explorer software used in Denmark with Nyhedsavisen.

Nyhedsavisen (literally The News Paper or The News Newspaper) is a Danish free daily newspaper owned by Dagsbrún. The first issue was published on October 6, 2006.

Press Release 14th April 2007
ACNielsen signs up with Survey Explorer software.

ACNielsen was established in the United States in 1923 by Arthur C. Nielsen, Sr., one of the founders of the modern marketing research industry. Among many innovations in consumer-focused marketing and media research, Nielsen was responsible for creating a unique retail-measurement technique that gave clients the first reliable, objective information about competitive performance and the impact of their marketing and sales programs on revenues and profits. Nielsen information gave practical meaning to the concept of market share and made it one of the critical measures of corporate performance. Nielsen also founded the business known today as Nielsen Media Research, the global leader in television audience measurement and other media research services.

ACNielsen opened its first international office in the UK in 1939 and after World War II, progressively expanded its operations in Western Europe, Australia and Japan. The company increased its presence in Asia Pacific in 1994 by acquiring Survey Research Group and in the Middle East and Africa in the late 1990s through the acquisition of AMER World Research.

In 2001, ACNielsen became part of VNU, a world leader in marketing information, media measurement and information, business media and directories.

Press Release 10th April 2007
InterContinental Hotels Group signs up to study its MR with Survey Explorer software.

From the first Bass brewery in 1777 to today’s hotel company with more guest rooms than any other, IHG’s history is one of pioneering people and new ideas. InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) is now a distinct, discrete company, listed in the UK and the US stock markets.

Press Release 13th March 2007
London based Cobalt Sky starts using Memphis software.

Cobalt Sky are one of the leading providers of IT Services for the Market Research industry. They provide dynamic and innovative market researchers with reliable, efficient and worry-free data capture, processing and delivery.

Their services include:
IT systems for all aspects of survey operations, including panel management and information delivery on the web.
Web surveys.
CAI and Data Processing set ups.
Consultancy and training for SPSS MR software.
Project management on and off site.
Vector and Winyaps software for information delivery.

Cobalt Sky was founded in London, England in 1988 and now employs 20 full time consultants. We have offices in London and New York, USA. The majority of our consultants have worked in the industry for over ten years and have extensive experience of IT.

Their website is http://www.cobalt-sky.com

Press Release 12th March 2007
Millward Brown extends agreement to use Memphis software

Millward Brown, a worldwide giant in the Market Research industry, has renewed its order for Survey Explorer and Survey Transformer for its offices both in the UK and the USA. Use of the software has already been rolled to clients and other MB offices across Europe.

Over the past three decades, Millward Brown has grown to be one of the world’s leading research companies. With offices in more than 43 countries, they work with 70 of the top 100 global brands.

Millward Brown's website is http://www.millwardbrown.com/

Press Release 2nd March 2007
ResearchNow increases use of Memphis Survey Explorer and Survey Transformer

Research Now are leading European online fieldwork and panel specialists, with 5 offices throughout Europe, 3 in the US and 2 in Australia. Both Survey Transformer and the end-user Survey Explorer software is being used in their Vauxhall based London HQ.

They provide full service online fieldwork/data collection and data processing to a wide range of small, medium and large research agencies, along with corporate clients seeking fieldwork only services.

Their "Valued Opinions" family of online research-only panels comprise over 900,000 members in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Ireland and Australia.

Their website is http://www.researchnow.co.uk

Press Release 2nd February 2007
Data Analysis company SwissPeaks extends use of Memphis Survey Explorer and Transformer

SwissPeaks was formed to fulfil the growing need for IT experts in the market research industry. Today, this objective remains the company's hallmark. The company aims to continually provide quality, leading edge and cost effective survey management solutions that meet clients' changing needs.

Their website is http://www.swisspeaks.com

Press Release 26th January 2007
Synovate Healthcare delivers Survey Explorer to pharmaceutical giant

Synovate Healthcare distributes their DSL database and Launch Essential database products in a Memphis Software format to many pharmaceutical companies in the trade.

Synovate Healthcare is a full service healthcare market research agency. Established in 1973, they have international offices across Europe, Asia and the USA.

Their website is http://www.synovate.com/healthcare/

Recent renewal user licence contracts includes the following company:

Menarini

Menarini was established over a century ago (1886 to be precise) in a small laboratory of the Farmacia Internazionale (International Pharmacy) of Naples. In 1915 it transferred to Florence, where it still has its head office.

Once Menarini reached the first position in the ranking of Italian pharmaceutical companies in the 1990's, it focussed on its rapid expansion throughout Europe and the world through the acquisition or opening of affiliate companies.

Today the Menarini Group is present:
in all countries of the European Union (except the Scandinavian countries)
in Switzerland
in the Central and Eastern European countries where it is among the major international pharmaceutical groups, particularly in the Baltic countries, Russia and the other countries of the ex-Soviet Union
in Central America where it ranks at the fifth position
in the main developing countries such as India (from 1995), Vietnam (from 1994), People's Republic of China and Korea
in South Africa

Press Release 24th January 2007
UK's "Channel 4" TV company extends its contract for a further year.

Channel 4 transmits across the whole of the UK, except some parts of Wales, which are covered by the Welsh language S4C. It is available on all digital platforms (terrestrial, satellite and cable) as well as through traditional analogue transmission.

Channel 4 also operates a number of other services, including the free-to-air digital TV channels E4 and More4, the subscription service FilmFour (which will be relaunched as a free-to-air channel in summer 2006), and an ever-growing range of online activities at channel4.com, including the broadband service FourDocs. The FilmFour production division produces and co-produces feature films for the UK and global markets.

Their website is www.channel4.com

Press Release 16th January 2007
HPI Research Group sign up to continue using Survey Explorer

During January 2007 the HPI Research Group has renewed user licences for the third year.

HPI Research Group was formed in 1978, and is established as one of the top 20 UK fast growing research companies.

In 1999 HPI Research Group became part of DraftWorldwide - a big US based integrated marketing services group who place great stock on building brands via research.

Website: www.hpiresearch.com

Press Release 9th January 2007
London based ResearchNow increase their attachment to Memphis Software

Their "Valued Opinions" family of online research-only panels comprise over 900,000 members in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Ireland and Australia.

Their website is http://www.researchnow.co.uk

Press Release 2nd January 2007
Millward Brown extends use of Survey Explorer and Transformer in Denmark

After a successful first year, Millward Brown has opted to continue using Memphis products within its Danish offices, part of its continued rolling out of the Memphis Survey Explorer software to its offices in Europe. After its Spanish office in October 2005, others followed in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. In December 2006 the MB operation in France (based in Paris) opted to extend its use throughout 2007 and now their Danish operation has made the same decision.

Press Release 28th December 2006
US giant Hall & Partners extends its in-house use of Memphis software

Hall & Partners has renewed its contract to use Memphis products Survey Explorer and Survey Transformer, together with the additional BrandTrend software, throughout its US offices in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles - the software is commonplace on desktops throughout the company.

Hall & Partners works at all stages of building brand relationships and understanding how advertising affects brand relationships.

Their website is www.hall-and-partners.com

A further archive of Press Releases issued prior to those shown above can be found here.