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* May 7, 2001: Global Insight announced it would acquire DRI and WEFA from their respective parent companies to form its first subsidiary, DRI-WEFA Inc. DRI, formerly known as Data Resources Inc. was at this point a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, a New York publisher and financial services company, while WEFA was a unit of The Thomson Corporation, a Toronto diversified information company.

Joseph Kasputys was the chairman and main shareholder in Global Insight and led the acquisition.

At the time of the merger, Kasputys, who had previous roles as a senior executive of both WEFA and DRI, said that he had wanted to bring together DRI and WEFA since 1990.

Kasputys had also been executive vice president of McGraw-Hill until 1987.

At the point of the merger, WEFA had about 220 employees and DRI about 250.

At its peak, DRI, the larger of the two, had brought in USD 100 million in revenue.

Including new subsidiaries Primark Decision Economics ; DAFSA, a European market research company ; and Primark Poland, a software development company ; Global Insight was planned to employ about 500, have 30 offices world wide, and have annual revenue of USD 70 million.