Bryles Research

Bryles Research was founded in 1969 by Doris Bryles, with the help of her husband Conrad, in Palos Heights, IL – a suburb southwest of Chicago. In the early years, Bryles Research specialized in field, telephone, and door-to-door marketing research. Doris built the company throughout the 1970’s with a diverse set of field workers driven by her own desire to provide great results.

In 1977 Doris’s son Robert Bryles began his career with Bryles Research. Using his keen business sense and accounting background, Robert expanded the company from mainly field research to data collection within large urban shopping centers. Bryles research was an early entrant and innovator in the mall intercept methodology. It grew in the 1980’s to five mall facilities across the Midwest in the Chicago, IL, Duluth, MN and Springfield, MO areas. In 1988, Robert’s wife, Nancy, began her career at Bryles Research and helped to expand upon its mall expertise to include qualitative research, central location testing, and executive interviewing.