Market Research Supplier Directory

Searchable catalogues of research agencies and facilities, one record per company, with profiles, contacts and classification by speciality.

Four of the 12 primary records are such directories, run by GreenBook, Quirk's, the MRS and MrWeb respectively.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - greenbook-directory — "1,000+ verified supplier profiles (site claim)". - quirk-s-directories — "browsable by". - market-research-society-mrs-uk — "Thousands of accredited supplier entries in the RBG". - mrweb-market-research-industry-portal — "thousands of company listings in the InsightClopedia".

A label on a listing is not a deliverable. Teams that license on the strength of a product-name match routinely find the shipped files cover a narrower slice than they assumed, and backfilling history afterwards costs more than the license ever did.

The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.

You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and greenbook-directory lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open greenbook-directory and confirm its record — "1,000+ verified supplier profiles (site claim)" — against the files you actually receive.
2. Open quirk-s-directories and confirm its record — "browsable by" — against the files you actually receive.
3. Open market-research-society-mrs-uk and confirm its record — "Thousands of accredited supplier entries in the RBG" — against the files you actually receive.
4. Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is.
5. Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
6. Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.

See the term applied to real records: research-consulting-services data.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - focus group facility directory - research buyers guide - specialty taxonomy - web scraping access