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THE ZIMENT GROUP ANNOUNCES NEW ROLES FOR SENIOR MANAGEMENT

NEW YORK, November 15, 2006 -The Ziment Group, a consortium of leading healthcare and pharmaceutical market research companies headquartered in New York, announced several changes in roles and responsibility among its senior management: 

• Howard Ziment, presently the Chief Executive of the group companies, will become Chairman effective immediately. His role will now include assisting with the expansion of the Kantar Group's healthcare offering. The Ziment Group is part of Kantar, the information and consultancy division of WPP Group.

• Lynnette Cooke has been promoted to add the title of Chief Executive Officer of The Ziment Group in addition to her present title of Chief Executive of the Custom Research division.  The group consists of Ziment, WebSurveyResearch, imap Research and Consumer Health Sciences.

"I look forward to continuing to craft strategy for the Ziment Group," said Ziment. "I also look forward to helping Kantar in its quest to grow in healthcare, one of its key market sectors. It is with complete confidence that I turn over the day-to-day decision making for the group to Lynnette. She will continue our mission to provide the best solutions to our clients’ most intractable business and marketing problems."

Cooke has been with The Ziment Group since 1997. She has previously held roles as a Director of Client Services, Sr. Director, Chief Operating Officer and her present role of Chief Executive Officer in the Custom Research division of the group.

"I look forward to continuing our long string of success," said Cooke. "The Ziment Group is a collection of leading brands and innovative products and services. Our goal is to continue our track record of innovation, of high quality service and our delivery of actionable research across all of our group companies. It is an honor to assume the leadership of a company to which I have devoted such passion and energy.”

About The Ziment Group:

The Ziment Group consists of Ziment, the custom, strategic, marketing research division for healthcare and pharmaceutical industries worldwide; WebSurveyResearch which houses the largest dedicated panel of physicians with which to conduct  marketing research through the internet; imap Research, a division dedicated to conducting syndicated market tracking research; and Consumer Health Sciences, which conducts the National Health and Wellness Survey (nhwsurvey.com), the pre-eminent source of information about the flow of patients into physicians' offices.

The Ziment Group is the global healthcare research brand for The Kantar Group, the Information and Consultancy Division of WPP, plc.  For more information on the group and its divisions, go to www.zimentgroup.com.

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