 Eileen Cole was made its chairman and the German, French and Dutch companies were moved much closer to RBL.In 1986, the Ogilvy Group acquired RBL and the other EMRG companies from Unilever, and Philip Barnard, who had been working in RBL and various other EMRG companies for many years, became the new MD for the acquired group of companies.The name Research International had begun as an umbrella brand under which EMRG presented multi-country studies.