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Full-service agency Illuminas has launched a new research community comprising CIOs, CTOs and other very senior technology execs from enterprises in the US. More
The management team of UK-based Illuminas has completed a management buyout (MBO) from former parent company MSQ Partners. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. More
UK-based Trinity McQueen (formerly Brass Insights) has appointed former Illuminas exec Mike Roderick as Research Director, tasked with expanding the agency's activities in the financial services, utilities and B2B sectors. More
Employee-owned MR provider Illuminas has reported a 27% revenue rise to £10m for the year ended February 2014. The firm has also appointed Steven Maskell as Senior Vice President in its New York office. More
Roger Parry, the non-executive Chairman of UK-based marcoms group Media Square – which owns market research agency Illuminas – has announced plans to step down from the role, after the firm's AGM in July. More
IQ Holdings' shareholders have voted in favour of selling the firm's research subsidiaries Viewpoint Field and Rosslyn Research to media and financial services group Rivington Street Holdings (RSH), in a deal valued at £1.5m. More
Struggling UK-based firm IQ Holdings is selling two of its remaining research subsidiaries to PLUS-quoted media and financial services group Rivington Street Holdings (RSH). Rosslyn Research and Viewpoint Field Services should join RSH by the end of this month. More
In the UK, marcoms group Media Square (MSQ) is to appoint Iluminas Chairman Peter Reid as Group Chief Executive from 1 January 2010. He joins the Board of MSQ with immediate effect. More
UK b2b research specialist IQ has closed its telephone and online data collection firm The Wire, just three weeks after acquiring it from global agency Illuminas. More
In the UK, marcoms group Media Square is to reduce its global headcount by around 9%, as part of a cost saving programme in response to a significant reduction in client spend. More
In the UK, marcomms group Media Square has announced the completion of its sale of MR consultancy assets to IQ Holdings plc. Viewpoint Field, Viewpoint Studios and The Wire were previously part of Media Square-owned Illuminas, but were considered 'not core' to its offer. More
UK b2b research specialist IQ is to acquire Viewpoint Field, Viewpoint Studios and The Wire from global agency Illuminas, in a move it says will help develop client facing practices for its research-based consultancy businesses. More
Global research consultancy Illuminas has appointed Bob Takacs as Managing Director in its New York Office, to spearhead continued development in the Americas region. More
UK-based market intelligence consultancy Illuminas has appointed Andrew Reynolds as Director of Marketing Science. More
UK-based consultancy Illuminas has announced quadrupled profits for the year ending February 2007, despite problems at its owner Media Square. Global fees rose to c.£9m in the year ending February 2007 from £8.5m a year earlier, while profits rose from £0.3m in 2006 to £1.3m in 2007. More
UK-based Illuminas Global has appointed Matthew Carr as Director responsible for Asia Pacific and China, a new position created to help drive the firm's long term growth in the Far East. More
UK fieldwork firm The Wire, part of Illuminas, is launching new products to complement its 100 CATI station facility. Features include real-time progress checks and interim analysis on data; and a package integrating telephone and online contacts with individual respondents. More
UK-based Illuminas has promoted Joe Brown to its Global Board with immediate effect. He is charged with developing the firm's digital economy offer. More
David Smith, current Chairman and CEO of UK-based Illuminas Global, has announced he will leave the company at the end of 2006 to focus on training and personal development interests. John Connaughton will become CEO. More
Our review of this week's ESOMAR Conference continues with Phyllis Vangelder's look at Tuesday's papers. They include suggestions for reconstructing research for the 21st Century, and a review of the challenges of opinion polling in Iraq. More
UK-based consultancy Illuminas has announced two senior hires. Patricia Rubio joins from Orange as Head of Business Consultancy, while Claudia Strauss from Ipsos MORI becomes Director of Illuminas' Brand Strategy practice. More
Incepta Marketing Intelligence, the MR group which includes Citigate DVL Smith and Hauck Research, has been rebranded as Illuminas. The company was bought by Media Square Group from Huntsworth Plc last November. More
UK agency Incepta Marketing Intelligence (IMI) has appointed Kenrick Leung as Director of its Hong Kong office. Leung takes over from Alice Page, who left for Ipsos earlier this year. He will report to IMI's CEO Andy Dexter. More
Retail marketing services and communications holding company Media Square has agreed to buy the marketing services businesses of UK PR firm Huntsworth, including Incepta Marketing Intelligence (IMI), for £63m. Huntsworth is refocusing on PR and healthcare communications but will keep two recently purchased healthcare research businesses. More
The UK's Incepta, owner of a number of MR brands and companies including Hauck and DVL Smith Ltd, is to merge with PR group Huntsworth. The resulting group will have an estimated market capitalisation of c.£195.4m, around two thirds from Incepta and one third Huntsworth. More
UK-based consultancies Citigate DVL Smith and Hauck Research Services, both owned by the Incepta Group Plc, are to be merged to form Incepta Marketing Intelligence. The various businesses and company brands within the group will continue to be run separately, reporting to the new Board, of which David Smith will be Chairman and Liz Hauck Deputy Chairman. More
UK research agency Hauck Research Services has been acquired this week by Incepta Group plc, the international marketing and communications group. More
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