For the Record: Ownership of Australian Public Opinion Polling and Market Research Companies

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By Gary Morgan & Michele Levine, Directors of Roy Morgan Research Ltd publisher of ABIX

  1. Roy Morgan Research Ltd – Australian based with operations also in New Zealand, Indonesia, US and UK – 81.5% owned by Gary Morgan and family, 13.3% Michele Levine (CEO) and 5.2% present & former employees/consultants.        http://www.roymorgan.com
  1. Nielsen – US based multinational valued at about $US17b – at present for sale with 8.4% owned by hedge fund Elliott Management – throughout the world conducts retail audits, net ratings and TV ratings.
    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/05/nielsen-acquisition-advent-goldman-apollo-considering.html
  1. Ipsos – French owned multinational conducts The Age/SMH Poll, recently purchased four divisions from GFK.
    https://www.ipsos.com/en-au/ipsos-world
  1. YouGov owners of Galaxy – a major UK based public opinion and social research company.
    https://today.yougov.com/about/about
    https://mumbrella.com.au/yougov-acquires-galaxy-research-489774
  1. Newspoll – public opinion polls conducted by YouGov and published in The Australian.
  1. Essential Poll – conducted by Essential Media Communications the holding company is The Essential Research and Communications Group Pty Ltd. The shares are held equally by Peter Lewis & James Douglas but the shares are not beneficially held (owner not known). Conduct Robo-Polling; clients as published include Shop Distributive & Allied Employees Association Nat Branch, United Firefighters’ Union of Australia-Victorian Branch and Federal Australian Education Union.
    https://www.essentialmedia.com.au/our-history
  1. uComms/ReachTEL Poll – three equal shareholders of UComms are ACTU secretary Sally McManus, CFMMEU national secretary Michael O’Connor and James Stewart, a former executive of ReachTEL who conducted Robo-Polling.
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-10/political-polling-company-ucomms-ties-to-unions-cfmmeu-and-actu/10945798
  1. ReachTEL – Known for using low-cost Robo-Polling ReachTel is a wholly owned subsidiary of Equifax – the NYSE listed data and analytics company.https://www.reachtel.com.au/about
  1. DBM Consultants – conducts customer satisfaction surveys for all major Australian bank covering both business customers and personal customers – controlled and 51% owned by an ultimate holding Chinese company –  Shanghai Illuminera Marketing Strategy Consulting Co Ltd.
    https://www.dbmconsultants.com.au/who-we-are
  1. ORC International Pty Ltd trading as Engine Asia Pacific – US based corporation recently awarded by Federal Government Tourism Research tender (Contract Notice View – CN3566082) for $18,950,385.20 (not lowest) to collected personal information on overseas tourist visiting Australia (Per year: 1.4 million Chinese spending $10.4b).
    https://enginegroup.com/apac
  1. The Social Research Centre owned by the Australian National University.
    https://www.srcentre.com.au
  1. Emma conducted by NewsMediaWorks – supplier of media information from surveys conducted by IPSOS & Nielsen – NewsMediaWorks is majority owned and controlled by News Corp.
    https://www.emma.com.au/about
  1. GFK – German multinational research company – conducts Australian commercial radio ratings.
    https://www.gfk.com/en-au
  1. Kantar Group includes Taylor Nelson – owned by WPP, the world’s largest multinational advertising agency based in the UK.
    http://www.tnsglobal.com/office/australia-1
  1. IRI – US based multinational – conducts mainly retail research.
    https://www.iriworldwide.com/en-AU
  1. Most major advertising agencies and accounting firms conduct surveys for their clients, they usually sub-contract the field work.

 

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