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Arbitron Moves HQ To Maryland

March 9, 2009 (FinancialWire) -- Arbitron Inc. (NYSE: ARB) has moved its headquarters from New York City to Columbia, Maryland. Columbia has been the site of Arbitron's survey research, engineering and data collection and production operations since 1994.

The move was championed by Arbitron CEO Michael Skarzynski, who was hired in January. According to Skarzynski, "I want to live and work where the operational core of our business resides."

Skarzynski said, "Columbia is home to Arbitron's state-of-the-art research campus and it's important for me and our executives to work in the same location as the teams who are creating new solutions for our current customers and new services for our expanding markets."

The Arbitron headquarters office is located at the company's existing facility in Columbia. The headquarters building is one of six facilities totaling 275,000 square feet that are located in Howard County, Maryland.

Arbitron said that its New York City location will remain open and continue to operate as a sales office. The other Arbitron U.S. offices and facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Birmingham, Alabama and the facility in Kochi, India are not affected by the relocation of the company headquarters to Columbia, Maryland.

Columbia, Maryland-based Arbitron is a media and marketing research firm serving the media - radio, television, cable, online radio and out-of-home, as well as advertisers and advertising agencies. Arbitron's core businesses are measuring network and local market radio audiences across the United States, surveying the retail, media and product patterns of local market consumers and providing application software used for analyzing media audience and marketing information data.

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