Taylor Nelson Sofres plc
Type
Wholly owned subsidiary
Industry
Marketing
Founded
1997
Headquarters
London England UK
Key people
Pedro Ros (Chairman of the board) Eric Salama (CEO)
Services
Market research
Revenue
1068 million (2007)1
Operating income
102.7 million (2007)1
Profit
58.5 million (2007)1
Owner(s)
Kantar Group (a division of the WPP Group)
Employees
15270 (2007)1
Website
www.tnsglobal.com
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Taylor Nelson Sofres is a leading market research and market information group. ... In 1997, Sofres acquired Intersearch and then merged with Taylor Nelson AGB. ...
Taylor Nelson Sofres is a leading market research and market information group. ... In 1997, Sofres acquired Intersearch and then merged with Taylor Nelson AGB. ...
Taylor Nelson Sofres is a leading market research and market information group. Formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index the firm was acquired by WPP Group in October 2008 for 1.6 billion pounds.
Contents
1 History
2 Operations
3 Financial performance
3.1 Top ten of the market research sector 2006
4 References
History
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The history of TNS as a market research company began in 1946 with the establishment of National Family Opinion (NFO) in the United States.2 Since then various mergers and acquisitions involving large companies from the US Europe and Asia Pacific eventually became the Taylor Nelson Sofres group.
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The 1960s saw the establishment of the six main companies that today form part of TNS. Starting with NFO in the 1940s Intersearch in the US in 1960; then AGB in the UK in 1962; Sofres in France in 1963; Frank Small Associates (FSA) in Australia in 1964; Taylor Nelson in the UK in 1965.2 Over the 60s 70s 80s and 90s these companies grew significantly as individual businesses.
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TNS Sofres : institut d'études marketing et d'opinion international. L'ensemble des études publiées depuis 1999 et son offre marketing : études en souscription, ...
The 1990s and early years of the new millennium saw consolidation in the industry. In 1992 Sofres acquired Secodip. In 1992 Taylor Nelson joined with AGB. In 1997 Sofres combined with FSA. In 1997 Sofres acquired Intersearch and then merged with Taylor Nelson AGB. In 2000 Taylor Nelson Sofres acquired CMR followed by the NFO WorldGroup in 2003.2
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The TNS Group continues to grow mainly by acquiring small research companies to strengthen its position in markets in which it already has a presence. For example in December 2007 TNS acquired Landis Strategy & Innovation in the United States a specialist research-based consultancy.3
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In the same month TNS announced that it had reached agreement to increase its ownership of LatinPanel Holdings from 33.3% to 100%. TNS was formerly a joint venture partner with the NPD Group and the IBOPE Group in this continuous consumer panel business serving Latin America operating in 15 countries in Latin America and covering 96% of the regions GDP providing local and international clients with access to a household research panel across the packaged groceries toiletries and cosmetics fresh foods and textile retail markets.4
that US adult internet users find extremely to somewhat annoying when they visit websites to obtain information about products or services that they are interested in purchasing July 2005 Source Taylor Nelson Sofres TNS commissioned by Hostway July 2005
http://www.zeald.com/Resources/Ebusiness+Statistics.html
Taylor Nelson Sofres plc -- Company History
1998: Taylor Nelson Sofres acquires Chilton Research Services. ... Taylor Nelson Sofres provides customized market research and analysis to many of the ...
1998: Taylor Nelson Sofres acquires Chilton Research Services. ... Taylor Nelson Sofres provides customized market research and analysis to many of the ...
In early March 2008 TNS announced the merging of its North American operating units TNS Media Intelligence TNS Media Research with the recently acquired firms Compete and Cymfony to create TNS Media Group.56
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Taylor Nelson Sofres plc. Strong financial performance in first half ... sheet as at 30 June 2007, and the related notes of Taylor Nelson Sofres plc ...
On 29 April 2008 TNS announced that it was in talks to merge with German market research company GfK.7 The announcement was followed in May by two conditional offers from WPP to buy TNS for a combination of cash and shares both of which were rejected by TNSs board. The hostile WPP bid led to GfK and TNS abandoning their merger plans. GfK sought without success to find backing for a rival offer leaving WPPs hostile bid as the only one on the table. On 9 October 2008 WPP declared that its latest bid had been successful and that it was buying TNS for $1.93bn.8 TNS now sits in WPPs Kantar Group. Many Kantar subsidiary companies are currently undergoing restructuring and rebranding as a result of the TNS deal. TNS itself will see various units either merged with other Kantar units or spun out into separate Kantar entities.
Operations
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TNS has chosen to specialise in eight market sectors:9
Automotive
Consumer
Finance
Healthcare
Media
Political and social
Technology
Worldpanel
TNS separates its worldwide operations in over eighty countries into four main divisions: North America Europe Asia Pacific and emerging markets.
Financial performance
Top ten of the market research sector 2006
Rank
Company
Sales in 2006
(million USD)
Growth in %
1
Nielsen Company
3696.0
2.6
2
IMS Health Inc.
1958.6
8.9
3
Taylor Nelson Sofres
1851.1
2.5
4
Kantar Group
1401.4
4.1
5
GfK AG
1397.3
5.4
6
Ipsos
1077.0
6.5
7
Synovate
739.6
9.5
8
IRI
665.0
6.6
9
Westat
425.8
0.8
10
Arbitron
329.3
5.9
References
a b c d "Annual Report 2007" (PDF). Taylor Nelson Sofres. http://smartpdf.blacksunplc.com/tns2007ara/TNS2007AnnualReport.pdf. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
a b c TNS - A History Of Success Delivering Market Research & Insight
Landis market research snapped up by TNS
TNS increases stake in LatinPanel Holdings
TNS Integrates Media and Advertising Monitoring Units
TNS Media
Gfk and TNS talking merger to challenge Nielson
WPP's pursuit of TNS ends in $1.93bn buy
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