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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers in various industries. The company serves sectors such as science and medical research, risk management, and legal. In addition, RELX organizes large-scale digital and face-to-face events such as industry trade shows. Around 60% of revenue is generated in North America and about 20% in Europe.

Thomson Reuters is a leading global provider of business information services, delivering trusted data, technology, and expertise to professionals across legal, tax, accounting, risk, compliance, and the news and media sectors. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, the company combines deep domain knowledge with data and software solutions to help clients make informed decisions, manage complexity, and drive efficiency. Thomson Reuters serves legal and accounting/tax professionals, corporations, and governments worldwide, but around 75% of revenue is generated in the US. The company is known for flagship products such as Westlaw, UltraTax CS, and Reuters News.

Experian is one of the leading credit bureaus in North America and the United Kingdom, providing the consumer information that is the basis for making lending decisions. The company also provides decision analytics, marketing data, and direct-to-consumer credit products and services. Roughly one quarter of the company's revenue is generated outside of North America and the United Kingdom, primarily in Latin America and Asia.

Along with Experian and TransUnion, Equifax is one of the leading credit bureaus in the United States. Equifax’s credit reports provide credit histories on millions of consumers, and the firm's services are critical to lenders’ credit decisions. In addition, about 40% of the firm’s revenue comes from workforce solutions, which provides income verification and employer human resources services. Equifax generates about 25% of its revenue from outside the United States.

Wolters Kluwer is a global provider of professional information, software solutions, and services in health; tax and accounting; environmental, social, and governance; finance; compliance; and legal. More than 60% of revenue is generated in North America and around 30% is from Europe.

Gartner Inc delivers actionable, objective business and technology insights that drive smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization's mission-critical priorities. It delivers its products and services globally through three reportable segments - Business and Technology Insights, Conferences and Consulting. Insights equips executives and their teams from every Majority function, geography, industry and sector with actionable, objective insights, guidance and tools. Conferences provides executives and teams across an organization the opportunity to learn, share and network. and Consulting serves senior executives technology-driven strategic initiatives leveraging the power of Gartner's actionable, objective insight. The Majority revenue is derived from the Insights segment.

Springer Nature AG & Co KGaA is a research, educational, and professional publisher providing content to communities through a range of platforms, products, and services. It offers journals, books, platforms, databases & and solutions. The company includes four Segments: Research, Education, Health, and Professional. The company operates in the Americas, APAC, Germany, and Other EMEA regions. The majority of revenue is generated from the research segment in America.

CRISIL Ltd provides research and analytics solutions for clients of all sizes. It operates through segments of Ratings services, and Research, Analytics & Solutions. The Ratings services segment includes credit ratings for corporates, banks, bank loans, credit analysis services, grading services and global analytical services. The Research, Analytics and solutions segment which generates key revenue, includes global research and risk solutions, industry reports, customized research assignments, subscription to data services, independent equity research (IER), IPO gradings, training, credit ratings for small and medium enterprises, advisory services and a comprehensive range of risk management tools, analytics and solutions to financial institutions, banks and corporates in India.

NIQ Global Intelligence PLC is a world-wide consumer intelligence company positioned at the nexus of brands, retailers and consumers. It manages a comprehensive and integrated ecosystem: The NIQ Ecosystem, which combines proprietary data, technology, human intelligence, and a sophisticated software applications and analytics solutions. The company has three reporting segments: Americas; EMEA; and APAC. generate revenue from solutions in two product groupings: Intelligence and Activation. Intelligence solutions include sales of retail omnichannel measurement, consumer panel, eCommerce and other data. Activation solutions include sales of customized analytics research and predictive models to improve decisions around product innovation, pricing, marketing and supply chain.

Ipsos SA is a France-based market research and data analytics company. It provides research services across areas such as advertising, media, technology, public affairs, and consumer markets, using surveys and data analysis to generate insights. The company operates globally, with Europe as a key revenue contributor.

Clarivate is a data, information, and software workflow solutions company serving customers primarily in academia, government, law, life sciences, and healthcare. The company was formerly part of Thomson Reuters before being sold to private equity as an independent company in 2016. In 2019, Clarivate went public on the New York Stock Exchange. Around half of the company’s revenue is generated in the Americas, while Europe, Middle East, and Africa account for around a quarter.

GlobalData PLC is a UK-based data analyzing and publishing company. The firm conducts industry analysis and research reports and also provides forecasts to help its clients make informed decisions. The company has spread across the Asia Pacific, EMEA, Latin and North America serving clients from the consumer, information communications technology, and healthcare markets. The Group operates within two segment, Data Analytics: Healthcare, and insights: Non-Healthcare. Company operates in Uk, Europe, USA, Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, and Others. Majority of revenue is from USA.

Beijing Dataway Horizon Co Ltd is engaged in providing data analysis and decision support services for clients in public affairs and business.

Latent View Analytics Ltd provides analytics services such as data and analytics consulting, business analytics and insights, predictive analytics, data engineering, and digital solutions. The company provides services to blue-chip companies in Technology, BFSI, CPG & Retail, Industrials, and other industry domains.

Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc is an international research and consulting firm. The company assists its clients in developing comprehensive solutions to meet their diverse needs by integrating think-tank, consulting and IT solution services. The Think Tank and Consulting segment offers research, survey analysis, project appraisal, strategic planning, and other organizational development services. The IT Solutions segment provides IT support and consulting, software development, data processing, system machinery, core system outsourcing, and business process outsourcing services. The business activity is primarily functioned through the regions of Japan.

Enento Group PLC is a Finland-based company that acts as a provider of business and consumer information services. It provides products and services for risk management, finance and administration, decision-making, and sales and marketing purposes. In addition, it also provides electronic and website services and company and personal information services accessible to all. It serves customers in finance and banking, wholesale and retail sectors, utilities, and small and medium-sized companies and consumers.

YouGov PLC is a market research agency company. Its suite of products consists of YouGov BrandIndex, YouGov Reports, and YouGov Profiles. Other services offered are YouGov Omnibus service and custom research by sector specialists. Segments in which the company operates include Data Products, Data Services and CPS. Revenues are generated from market research services, syndicated services, non-syndicated services, and media buying. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from EMEA and also has its presence in the UK, Americas, and Asia Pacific.

Fintel PLC is engaged in UK retail financial services in the provision of financial data and intelligence embedded in digital technologies. The company's principal activity is the provision of Fintech and support services to the UK retail financial services sector. The company's segment includes Intermediary Services; Distribution Channels and Fintech and Research. It generates maximum revenue from the Intermediary Services segment. Intermediary Services provides compliance and regulation services to individual financial intermediary Member Firms, including directly authorized IFAs, directly authorized mortgage advisers, workplace consultants and directly authorized wealth managers.

Appen Ltd is engaged in the provision of quality data solutions and services for machine learning and artificial intelligence applications for technology companies, auto manufacturers, government agencies among others. The company's business segments are Appen Global and Appen China. It generates maximum revenue from the Appen Global segment which represents all operations outside of the China Group. The Appen China segment represents the China Group operations and includes Japan and Korea. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from the United States of America, and has its presence in China, Australia and Others.

Cint Group AB is engaged in digital insights gathering of consumer insights. The software platform helps its customer segments in two ways. For its established insight company segment, it digitalizes the insights-gathering process and for the tech-enabled business segment, it provides unprecedented audience scale.

Information Services Group Inc is a U.S.-based technology insight, market intelligence, and advisory services firm. It principally offers digital transformation services, such as automation and cloud & data analytics; managed governance; network carrier services; technology plan and operations design; changes management; market intelligence & technology research and analysis. It operates in one segment, fact-based sourcing advisory services. Its geographical segments are the Americas, Europe, and Asia-pacific, out of which maximum revenue is derived from Americas.

Forrester Research Inc provides independent research, data, and advisory services. It operates through the following segments: The Research segment develops and delivers research, connect, and analytics products; The consulting segment includes the revenues and the related costs of the company's consulting organization, and the Events segment is engaged in developing and hosting in-person and virtual events.

Business Online PCL is a service provider and developer of local and world-wide financial information systems. It also has an online and offline business information service provider as well as consulting service and database management. The company solution includes Corpus X, Xignal, Matchlink, Dun and Bradstreet, and Debtline.

Infas Holding AG has two trading areas. The market trading area and social research. The Infas Institute for Applied Social Science uses measuring instruments of empirical social research and determines statements about thinking and especially acting in the population. infas quo conducts market research in the classic sense and advises companies in various sectors on the basis of empirical surveys.

Cross Marketing Group Inc is engaged in marketing support and data analysis services. The group has three reportable segments: Digital Marketing Business, Data Marketing Business, and Insight Business. The Digital Marketing segment provides digital and IT-related solutions, including marketing support and system development. The Data Marketing segment focuses on the collection and analysis of data for marketing research. The Insight segment supports decision-making through the analysis of marketing data and consumer insights. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Digital Marketing Business segment.

System1 Group PLC is engaged in providing market research data and insight services. The company's geographical segments include the United States of America, Latin America (LatAm), the United Kingdom, the Rest Of Europe, and the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. A majority of its revenue is generated from its business in the United Kingdom.

ATA Creativity Global is an international educational services company focused on providing quality learning experiences that cultivate and enhance students' creativity. The operating segments of the company are (i) Overseas art study services (ii) Other educational services and (iii) Other services. Majority of its revenue comes from Overseas art study services.

Pureprofile Ltd is a global data and insights organization providing online research and digital advertising services for agencies, marketers, researchers, and publishers. The company offers custom audiences, advanced survey programming, data cleaning and hygiene, dashboards, advertising effectiveness studying, competitor benchmarking, and analytics services.

Ebiquity PLC exists to help brands optimise return on investment from their marketing spend, working with many of the world’s advertisers to improve marketing outcomes and enhance business performance. Its segments include UK & Ireland consisting of operations in the United Kingdom and Ireland; Continental Europe consisting of operations in France, Iberian Peninsula, Germany, Italy and Nordic regions; North America consisting of operations in the United States of America and Canada; and Asia Pacific consisting of operations in Australia, China, India, Singapore and United Arab Emirates. It derives majority of the revenue from UK & Ireland segment.

Digital Research Co is a joint stock consulting company specializing in Market Research and Data Analytics with international expertise and local talent. It takes pride in its capabilities, approach, adoption of state of the art technologies and deep cultural understanding to serve as a trusted advisor to its clients.