[5] The company announced its return to independent status through a partnership and majority investment from Lake Capital effective 1 July 2011.
[6] ORC has its worldwide headquarters in Princeton, and offices across the U.S., Europe and the Asia Pacific region.
Founded in 1938, ORC is focused in the areas of customer engagement strategies, market planning and development, employee engagement, corporate brand and reputation management, competitive intelligence, and on-demand business intelligence.
[7] Globally, ORC operates in Asia as NWC Opinion Research, with offices in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and China; in Europe as ORC International with offices in London, Manchester and Edinburgh; and in the United States as ORC with offices in Princeton, New York City, Chicago, Boston, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, and Seattle.
The company's research is seen around the world through the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll[8] and through its partnership with NYSE Euronext[9] on the annual NYSE Euronext CEO Report[10] which surveys CEOs of the New York Stock Exchange's listing companies on topics ranging from globalization and governance to strategy and human resources.