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Top 25 Focus group companies based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 81 focus group companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 382 professional contacts across them, including 176 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers focus group companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 20, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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81Companies
382Contacts tracked
176Verified emails
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The 25 largest focus group companies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 81 focus group companies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to focus group companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceNewcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20054 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Explain is a market research agency that is committed to creating insightful and dynamic partnerships that deliver powerful and intelligent results.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5035 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Research Agency of the Year - Adwanted 2025 and Quirks 2024* Having more data should make it easier to understand what people think and do.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20029 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Accent is a full service market research consultancy delivering innovative, tailored and targeted insight.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5018 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“LAUNCHPAD RESEARCH An independent, full service research & insights agency.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5018 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Humans need emotion.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-108 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Market research is a competitive activity.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7Indirect evidenceWest Malling, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-508 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“BY RESEARCHING YOUR AUDIENCE, YOU UNDERSTAND THEIR DESIRES, WANTS AND NEEDS ONLY THEN CAN YOU CREATE AN EFFECTIVE MARKETING STRATEGY.** ABOUT LAKE MARKET RESEARCH: We are a full…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-508 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Small Big Research & Insight Agency River specialises in generating consumer insights that inspires great marketing.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9Indirect evidenceLeamington Spa, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-107 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We are here to help our clients at every stage of the planning and marketing process from exploring and understanding your consumer to developing products and evaluating how…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-107 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Tangible is a consumer research and brand consulting business specialising in improving brand performance.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11Indirect evidencePenryn, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-507 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“PFA Research deliver the market and customer insights you need to make informed decisions; saving you valuable time and reducing risk.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-107 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Ink Research is a full service market research agency specialising in NPD, Shopper and Communications Effectiveness research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13Indirect evidenceLeicester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-106 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Community Research is a UK-based market research agency, specialising in qualitative, deliberative and quantitative research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14Indirect evidenceCroydon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-106 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Prescient is an internationally capable brand and research company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Massive Wave Research is a UK based market research fieldwork and recruitment partner supporting agencies, consultancies and insight teams across consumer, healthcare and B2B…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17Strong evidenceTeddington, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-105 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Qualitative market research recruitment - consumer and business, online and offline • Online blogs & diaries, panels & communities • Focus groups, mini-groups, depths • Free find…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18Indirect evidenceBrighton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We are now part of Rila Global Consulting.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19Indirect evidenceReading, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-104 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Good research should do more than answer questions.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
20Strong evidenceHungerford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-103 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Most teams use focus groups to explore ideas, and surveys to validate them.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
21Indirect evidenceYork, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-503 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Skyblue Research Ltd is a Market Research company located in Suite C, 2nd Floor, The Lodge, 21 Front Street, York, York, United Kingdom.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
22Indirect evidenceLichfield, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-102 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We’re a market research agency delivering illuminating insights that create impact.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
23Indirect evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-102 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Untangled Insight is a consumer research consultancy delivering strategic and directional insight through the most efficient research methodologies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
24Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At the heart of what we do is our custom market research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
25Indirect evidenceBournemouth, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We're experts at speaking to your target market, finding answers to the questions you wish you had the answers to, and helping you put these insights into action.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026

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Focus group companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026
46.1%Verified-email coverage
4.7Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
33.3%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
57
11-50
19
51-200
3

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 81 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 focus group companies, 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 the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “focus group companies”. 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 focus group companies), 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 focus group companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 176 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 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Focus group companies by metro

  • Focus group companies in London27

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 focus group companies, 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 focus group companies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 81 focus group companies headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?

Explain Market Research, headquartered in Newcastle Upon Tyne, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most focus group companies?

London leads with 27 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (5) and London London (3).

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 176 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 81 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 20, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.