ABOUT ENVIRONICS RESEARCH GROUP LIMITED Environics is one of Canada's leading marketing and social survey research consultancies with a reputation for integrity, accuracy and insight. Co-founded in 1970 by Michael Adams, the firm has evolved into a multi-disciplined international research and consulting group. Headquartered in Toronto, the firm has offices and affiliates in Ottawa, Calgary, Montreal, Oakland, New York and Washington D.C. Environics offers its clients a broad array of research, consulting and communications services, from traditional public opinion polling and market research to advanced studies of human values and social change, in addition to consulting to aid our clients' product design, marketing, communications and human resource strategies. Environics is a full-service research firm experienced in conducting telephone surveys, on-line surveys, personal in-home interviews, postal surveys, panel studies and focus groups, conducting approximately 2,000 focus groups and 250,000 interviews a year. Internationally, Environics' clients include a number of the world's largest consumer marketers. In Canada, most of the country's governments, as well as leading firms in financial services, telecommunications, natural resources, print and broadcast media, and packaged goods industries, use Environics' services. Environics' consultants are specialists in all aspects of research design and analysis, and are well-known for their accuracy, project management and special interpretative expertise. They represent a wide range of disciplines, including statistics, psychology, sociology, political science, marketing, and advertising. Environics is a member of the Sociovision network, which is an international social values research consortium, and of IriS, the International Research Institutes, an association of major research companies throughout the world.