About Us

Who We Are

We specialise in ad-hoc market research and are an established partner of over 100 national and international brands.

Opinion stands for passionate market researchers with expertise, experience and enthusiasm. With around 30 permanent employees, we are small enough to be flexible and large enough to realise every project smoothly. We have many years of experience in coordinating and managing international studies: over 60% of the studies conducted by OPINION are international.

Our Mission Statements

Friendliness

Laughing is good for you - even in hot project phases, nothing throws us off track.

Expertise

Solutions have to be developed. OPINION achieves this through a mixture of experience, creativity, different minds and a great deal of commitment.

Partnership

Respectful cooperation is the basis for trust and successful collaboration. At OPINION, this applies within our team, with our customers, and in our network.

Flexibility

There are always last-minute changes. OPINION is prepared for these changes.

Speed

Deadlines are getting tighter and tighter. OPINION delivers knowledge - fast, clear and well-founded.

Facts About OPINION

OPINION Market Research & Consulting GmbH

  • 1996: founded by Rolf Körling & Wolfgang Hartmann in Nürnberg
  • 2021: Merger with INTEGRAL and SINUS to form the INTEGRAL-SINUS-OPINION group

Locations

  • Nürnberg
  • Heidelberg (headquarters of our sister institute SINUS)
  • Berlin (office of our sister institute SINUS)
  • Wien (headquarters of our sister institute INTEGRAL)

Memberships

  • ADM - Arbeitskreis deutscher Markt- und Sozialforschungsinstitute e.V. (see website for data on the market for market research)
  • BVM - Berufsverband Deutscher Markt- und Sozialforscher e.V. (see website for standards and guidelines in market- and social research)
  • ESOMAR - the World Association of Opinion and Marketing Research Professionals
  • Research Alliance - a co-operation of 20 independent market research institutes from all over the world

The OPINION-Network

OPINION is part of the INTEGRAL-SINUS-OPINION Group, which has its headquarters in Vienna. The sister institutes SINUS Markt- und Sozialforschung GmbH has locations in Heidelberg and Berlin, while INTEGRAL's headquarters is in Vienna as well.

OPINION also maintains a large number of national and international research and consultancy partnerships. OPINION has built up a global network of experts from a wide range of disciplines: Leading agencies and companies in the fields of consulting, direct marketing, brand technology, specialised research institutes, universities and renowned design experts cooperate with us - in some cases exclusively.

The INTEGRAL-SINUS-OPINION Group is advised by an interdisciplinary scientific advisory board with renowned experts from the fields of marketing, management, educational research, urban sociology and the church.

OPINION in Numbers

1996

founding year

30

permanent employees

0

dependence on donors

>100

brands who trust in us

90%

returning customers

>200

studies completed annually

>150,000

interviews conducted annually

in 44

countries around the world

up to 27

countries within multi-country-studies