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Top 22 Business research services based in Australia
RevenueBase identified 134 business research services headquartered in Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 1,534 professional contacts across them, including 532 with verified work emails. Sydney is the largest hub.
This list covers business research services headquartered in Australia, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
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The 22 largest business research services based in Australia
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 354 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The KPI Institute is a research institute specialized in business performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With a primary focus on financial services, CoreData Group provides clients with both bespoke and syndicated research services through a variety of data collection strategies and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “unlimited research solutions McNair yellowSquares is one of the only full-service market and social research companies in Australia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Taverner Research is a full service customised market and social research provider specialising in both commercial and government work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are fortunate enough to work with some of the world’s largest retail companies in the fuel/convenience sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 1976, McGregor Tan is one of Australia’s most experienced full service social and market research agencies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1993, Market Solutions has grown into a prominent and well respected market and social research company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Strategic research and consulting providing clarity and insights to your organisation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Market Intelligence Co.(TMIC) specialises in customised business to business and industrial market research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Instinct and Reason was established in 2002 as a market research and strategic consultancy with offices in Australia (Sydney, Canberra, Darwin), U.K (London), and Canada (Kelowna).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Invigor is a B2B data intelligence and solutions company that turns data analytics into dollars for the retail and service industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ovation Research is an ISO certified (ISO 20252:2019) market research business that offers access to one of Australia’s largest and most responsive consumer online research…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Parallel Data Research provides full-service solutions or à-la-carte online market research services including programming, data processing, coding, tabulation, advanced analysis…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Welcome to Australian Survey Research Group (ASR) a talented team of market research consultants and technical specialists based in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Insights Exchange gives companies direct access to world-class research expertise - making it easy to validate decisions, understand markets, and move with confidence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Based in Sydney, we have provided research services throughout Australia and the Pacific for more than twenty-five years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Industry Compete provides the data you need to grow your business and capture market share.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Food Industry Foresight is one of Australia’s most recognised market research firms in the Food Industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mike Ghasemi Research is an independent market intelligence, and technology advisory practice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Camino is a boutique market research agency with offices in Sydney and Melbourne.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Research Guru, we partner with clients to provide operational research support in the areas of: Survey Programming, Data Processing and Management, Statistical Analysis…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a boutique qualitative and quantitative market research agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: business research services. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names business research services.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of business research services, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name business research services. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Business research services based in Australia at a glance
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Australia, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Australia, over 134 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among business research services, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Australia whose own description of what they do matches “business research services”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names business research services), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among business research services, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Australia are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 532 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Business research services by metro
- Business research services in Sydney36
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names business research services, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many business research services are there based in Australia?
RevenueBase identified 134 business research services headquartered in Australia as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
The KPI Institute, headquartered in Melbourne, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most business research services?
Sydney leads with 36 headquartered companies, followed by Melbourne (18) and Brisbane (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 532 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 134 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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