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Top 25 Research companies based in France

RevenueBase identified 311 research companies headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 21,693 professional contacts across them, including 4,793 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.

This list covers research companies headquartered in France, 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.

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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21,693Contacts tracked
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The 25 largest research companies based in France

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 311 research companies based in France, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to research 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 evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202610001+16,377 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“In our world of rapid change, the need for reliable information to make confident decisions has never been greater.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2Indirect evidenceVilleneuve-d’ascq, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200214 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Qualimetrie est LE cabinet d’études marketing spécialisé dans le management de l’expérience clients.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3Strong evidencePuteaux, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200187 contacts →

Strong evidence

“CSA, which has 40 years of experience in the field of market research and opinion polling and 130 employees, provides companies and institutions with a detailed understanding of…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
4Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200176 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Fondé en sur cette idée radicalement innovante pour l’époque, OpinionWay a été précurseur dans le renouvellement des pratiques de la profession des études marketing et d’opinion.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
5Indirect evidence33000 Bordeaux, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200117 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Welcome to Strategir® We unlock consumer truth to drive sustainable growth throughout the path to purchase.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6Strong evidenceVilleneuve-d’ascq, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20096 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Founded in 1981, SAD Marketing is a research and consulting firm based in Villeneuve d'Ascq, in the Lille area.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20083 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Established in 2008, Uniivo is a dynamic company with over 160 employees across two subsidiaries (France and Spain), offering a wide range of services: Science (Outsourcing…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8Indirect evidenceCourbevoie, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-50082 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Kantar Media est le leader reconnu des études et analyses médias, pour les données publicitaires de référence, le profilage et le ciblage des consommateurs avec TGI, et l’analyse…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
9Strong evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5060 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Brain Value is an independent research agency founded in 2003 by Nicolas Riou and based in Paris.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10Strong evidenceSèvres, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20060 contacts →

Strong evidence

“STETHOS group is dedicated to marketing research and consulting in the healthcare sector – from ethic products, OTC, MD to nutrition, consumer care and dermocosmetics.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11Indirect evidenceMontrouge, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-50055 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Fort de 40 ans d'expérience, MV2 Conseil fait partie des principaux acteurs dans le domaine des études marketing en France.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
12Strong evidenceLille, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20054 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Founded in 2001, MIS Group assists institutes, marketing agencies, research firms, company founders and managers, marketing professionals, researchers and academic institutions…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13Indirect evidenceRennes, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5041 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Bretagne Conseil est la Junior-Entreprise l’ESC Rennes School of Business.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
14Strong evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5037 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Episto is an innovative Market research solution We have developed an iconic technology allowing to collect authentic opinions from all types of audiences even the toughest ones…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
15Indirect evidenceLevallois-perret, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20037 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“MarketingScan, société spécialisée dans la grande consommation, accompagne les industriels, les distributeurs, les agences media et les régies publicitaires dans l’aide à la…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16Indirect evidenceVilleneuve D Ascq, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5037 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Vous avez le sens de l’observation et aimez comprendre ce qui se passe sur le terrain?”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17Indirect evidenceTassin-la-demi-lune, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5037 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Our tailor-made support- From participant recruitment to "full project" for turnkey online or offline studies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
18Strong evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20036 contacts →

Strong evidence

“BBSP is a leading independent technical research and consultancy company with a difference.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
19Indirect evidenceLe Bouscat, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5035 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Etudes et préconisations marketing.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
20Indirect evidenceCholet, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20035 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“A3 DISTRIB a été créée en 1994.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
21Indirect evidenceLanester, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5034 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Tryom est née d’un défi un peu fou de deux amies, qui après plusieurs années à travailler ensemble dans les études de marché, se sont lancées un pari : leur création!”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
22Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5030 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“As market intelligence experts, we provide daily market follow-up on banking, credit and insurance products to more than 100 organizations.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
23Indirect evidenceViroflay, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5027 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Acteur du monde agricole, spécialiste du marketing, ADquation Etudes et Data Intelligence est engagée depuis 20 ans auprès de ses agriculteurs et agrofournisseurs ’!”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
24Indirect evidenceNancy, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5025 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Membre fondateur de la Confédération Nationale des Junior-Entreprises (CNJE), ICN Junior Conseil est la Junior-Entreprise de l'école de commerce de Nancy.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
25Strong evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5024 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Founded in 1991, in Paris, RECMA is the only Research company that evaluates media agencies worldwide.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

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Research companies based in France at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026
22.1%Verified-email coverage
69.8Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
35.0%Largest-city concentration · Paris
Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
190
11-50
82
51-200
26
201-500
5
1,001-5,000
1
10001+
5

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 311 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 research 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “research 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 research 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 research companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 4,793 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
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Research companies by metro

  • Research companies in Paris109

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 research 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 research companies are there based in France?

RevenueBase identified 311 research companies headquartered in France 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?

IPSOS, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most research companies?

Paris leads with 109 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (20) and Lille (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 4,793 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 311 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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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.