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GfK Custom Research company history timeline

1980

The group also began a series of acquisitions, particularly in Germany, including the Institut für Markt und Preis, based in Mainz, in 1980.

1981

1981: Company establishes subsidiary in France.

1982

1982: GfK introduces company-operated panel stores, featuring EPOS cash register tracking system.

1983

That partnership became 100 percent controlled by GfK in 1983.

1990

1990: GfK joins in formation of the European Market Measurement Database, a consortium capable of providing household panel data from nearly 60,000 households across Europe; establishes subsidiary in Russia.

1991

By then, GfK had established a subsidiary in Russia and opened a branch office in the Czech Republic as it began preparing to expand its operations into the new, liberated Eastern bloc countries, which it did in 1991 with the formation of a subsidiary in Slovakia.

1998

By 1998, the company's international operations accounted for more than half of its total revenues, although Germany remained its single largest market.

2002

In 2002, the company's network included more than 110 subsidiaries, offices, and equity "partnerships" in 51 countries.

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