About us

ORC International is a unique research company. Our research excellence is enhanced by our IT heritage built up over 40 years managing some of the UK’s largest and most complex data analysis projects. Today, we still lead the field in major research studies, with no job too large or too complex:

• We have customer databases with up to 38 million client records
• We run individual customer surveys of over 1 million customers per annum
• We run the UK’s largest public sector employee survey (over 500,000 staff)
• We run the UK’s largest private sector  employee survey (over 200,000 staff)
• We have access to our extensive benchmarking database and proprietary research to advise on customer and employee survey findings
• We perform sophisticated text mining on surveys with over 250,000 verbatim responses.

At ORC International we focus on the areas where we are truly expert and can ensure our clients will benefit from our relationship:

• Customer research and Employee research across all business sectors
• All types of research in our specialist areas of Public Services, Financial Services and Technology
• Applying IT to research and data analysis.

Our customers enjoy working with us for several reasons:

• We help them interact with their research findings through online applications, and together we ensure that research delivers business improvements
• We invest heavily in R&D to ensure our online tools are continually being updated
• We involve our customers in our R&D programme
• We run an extensive education programme of conferences, seminars, webinars and workshops to keep them up to date with latest research thinking.
• Regular networking events allow our customers to interact with each other and share best practice.
• We are flexible and nimble in response to customer needs

ORC International has offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.