There’s nothing paradoxical about the success of the analyst companies over the last recession. The analyst firms are more needed in tough times, and they have worked hard to innovate. However, some of the firms are pushing up against the [...]
Mergers are tricky things, and the mergers of businesses based around knowledge workers are especially tricky. It’s not hard to see why. Ovum, Informa and Datamonitor each developed different cultures, each of which reflect the different goals and preferences of [...]
Ovum has some substantial strengths. As we explained yesterday, Informa’s business model means that it contains some of the most profitable businesses in any industry. Ovum has more of a global footprint and, with over 100 analysts, enough scale to [...]
Ovum has been, for several years, an organisation that always seemed to be on the edge of doing great things. With a strong brand and having attracted good staff, the firm has maintained its position in the industry. Since separating [...]
April 29, 2013 was a rare bad day for Informa. At the time of publishing, shortly before trading closed in London, the firm was 2.4% down on the day (a loss of just over $100m USD) even though the principal [...]
It’s just been announced that 12 year Informa veteran Steve Holtham is replacing Ovum managing director Brett Azuma “with immediate effect”. The press release states that: Most recently Steve was Group Managing Director for Informa Professional, in addition to his [...]
PAC’s hiring today of John Leigh, a BPO industry heavyweight, reflects the general trends towards the growth in the market for custom consulting. Leigh, previously at BTGS, Gartner, META, Ovum and Vertex, joins Pierre Audoin Consulting at a time when [...]
Informa, which owns Datamonitor, Ovum and Butler, stays on the shelf after Providence Equity Partners walked away from its planned purchase of the group. It would have been one of the largest private equity deals, and was never certain. As [...]
A quick ‘heads up’ from Richard:Informa gets bid from private equity consortium led by Providence Equity. Depending on whose maths you trust, the bid is more or less $6 billion: less according to The Times, but almost $7 billion according [...]
Guest post by Aleksandra Bosnjak, Lead TMT Analyst at StrategyEye, in advance of our recent webinar. Informa, the UK-based B2B publishing and conference giant which just broke off its talks with UBM for a merger, now has another possible group [...]
