AGREEMENT

                  WHEREAS,  Asset Value Fund Limited Partnership ("Asset Value")
owns 900,000 shares of stock in FIND/SVP, Inc., (the "Company"); and

                  WHEREAS,  Asset  Value has  commenced  an action in the United
States District Court for the Southern District of New York entitled ASSET VALUE
FUND LIMITED  PARTNERSHIP V. FIND/SVP,  INC., AND ANDREW P. GARVIN,  97 Civ 3977
(LAK),  which  seeks  damages  for alleged  violations  of Section  10(b) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and for common law fraud; and

                  WHEREAS,  Asset  Value  has also  commenced  an  action in the
Supreme Court of the State of New York,  County of New York entitled ASSET VALUE
FUND LIMITED  PARTNERSHIP V. BRIGITTE DE GASTINES AND JEAN-LOUIS  BODMER,  Index
No.  606165/97,  which seeks to remove two directors of the Company  pursuant to
New York Business  Corporation Law Section  706(d),  and defendants have removed
this action to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New
York, where it was assigned Docket No. 97 Civ. 9545 (LAK); and

                  WHEREAS,  the parties wish to settle those actions and resolve
all of their  disputes  relating to Asset  Value's  purchases  and  ownership of
shares of stock in the Company and to the governance of the Company  without any
acknowledgement of wrongdoing by any party,

                  IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:

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                  1.  The  Company  will  pay to  Asset  Value  legal  fees  and
disbursements in the amount of $110,000 on or before February 20, 1998.

                  2. The Company  will cause  Asset  Value's  900,000  shares of
stock in the Company to be  purchased  at $1.25 per share on or before  February
20, 1998.

                  3. If within two years of the date of the payments referred to
in paragraphs 1 and 2 above, (a) the Company sells all or  substantially  all of
its assets, (b) the Company is merged into or combined with another company, (c)
any person acquires a majority of the outstanding shares of the Company pursuant
to a  tender  offer,  (d) the  Company  is  taken  private,  or (e) the  Company
undergoes  a  recapitalization  or  restructuring,  and in  any  such  case  the
shareholders of the Company receive  consideration  (whether cash, securities or
otherwise)  of  more  than  $1.25  per  share,   then,   immediately  after  the
consummation of such transaction,  the Company will pay to Asset Value an amount
equal to 900,000 times the  difference  between $1.25 and the amount paid to the
shareholders  up to a maximum  difference  of $1.75 per share  (I.E.,  a maximum
price of $3.00 per share).

                  4. At the time of the payments referred to in paragraphs 1 and
2 above,  Asset Value and the Company  will  execute and deliver to each other a
general release in the form annexed as Exhibit A hereto.

                  5. At the time of the payments referred to in paragraphs 1 and
2 above,  Asset Value will execute and deliver to the Company a stipulation  and
order of dismissal with prejudice of the pending actions in the forms annexed as
Exhibit B hereto.

                  6. For a period of five years from the date of this Agreement,
neither  Asset  Value  nor  Paul  Koether  will  purchase,  either  directly  or
indirectly,  any  shares of

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stock in the  Company,  and after the sale of shares  referred to in paragraph 2
above, neither Asset Value nor Paul Koether will own or control, either directly
or indirectly, any shares of stock in the Company.


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Dated:   New York, New York
         January 20, 1998

Asset Value Fund Limited Partnership                          FIND/SVP, Inc.

By: /s/ PAUL KOETHER                                  By:  /s/ ANDREW P. GARVIN
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        Paul Koether                                           Andrew P. Garvin