Marketing & Research Resources, LLC

Founded in 1986, Maryland Marketing Source provides the collection of qualitative and quantitative data that is related to marketing. The company offers project design, questionnaire development, questionnaire editing for interviewing effectiveness, statistical analysis, moderating, data coding and tabulation, oral and written presentations and report writing. It offers data collection through telephone interviewing, Web-based interviewing, direct mail, on-location interviewing, intercepts, product placement and mystery shopping; recruiting of focus groups; and data entry and tabulation. The company s equipment for focus groups includes conference rooms, a three-tiered viewing room with dimmer-controlled and lighted tables and high-speed Internet access, client lounges with television monitoring, a redundant sound system and a fully stocked kitchen. Maryland Marketing Source is headquartered in Randallstown, Md.

Arbitron is an international media and marketing research firm serving radio broadcasters, cable companies, advertisers, advertising agencies and outdoor advertising companies in the United States, Mexico and Europe. Arbitron s core businesses are measuring network and local market radio audiences across the United States; surveying the retail, media and product patterns of local market consumers; and providing application software used for analyzing media audience and marketing information data. The company s marketing and business units are supported by its research and technology organization, which is located in Columbia, Md. Arbitron has more than 1,600 employees. Its executive offices are located in New York City.