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Ipsos |
Ipsos S.A. is a global survey-based market research company headquartered in Paris, France. The company was founded in 1975 and has been publicly traded on the Paris Stock Exchange since 1 July 1999. Since 1990, the company has created or acquired more than 40 companies worldwide.
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Ipsos has organized its business into five areas of specialization: advertising research, marketing research, media research, opinion polls and social research; and quality and customer relationship management research.
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Ipsos' consolidated revenues totalled €718 million in 2005, up 18.8 percent on 2004, with an organic growth rate of 8.6 percent. In 2005, Ipsos derived 46% of its revenue from Europe, 34% from North America and 10% from Latin America. Lastly, the Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East together accounted for 10% of revenues.1
| Rank | Company | Sales in 2006 (million USD) |
Growth in % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nielsen Company | 3,696.0 | 2.6 |
| 2 | IMS Health Inc. | 1,958.6 | 8.9 |
| 3 | Taylor Nelson Sofres | 1,851.1 | 2.5 |
| 4 | Kantar Group | 1,401.4 | 4.1 |
| 5 | GfK AG | 1,397.3 | 5.4 |
| 6 | Ipsos | 1,077.0 | 6.5 |
| 7 | Synovate | 739.6 | 9.5 |
| 8 | IRI | 665.0 | 6.6 |
| 9 | Westat | 425.8 | 0.8 |
| 10 | Arbitron | 329.3 | 5.9 |