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Taylor Nelson Taylor Nelson Sofres is planning to merge with GfK of Germany to create a combined London-based market research group with annual sales of £1.9bn. 30-Apr-2008 Taylor Nelson Sofres is to acquire Compete Inc, the US digital market intelligence company, for an initial £38m. 04-Mar-2008 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired Prospera Research, the Swedish market research firm. 18-Feb-2008 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired ID Magasin, the Leicestershire-based retail and shopper insight consultancy, for undisclosed terms. 28-Sep-2007 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired PressWatch, the German market research firm with annual sales of £2.4m. 04-Sep-2007 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired Conversa Global, the New Zealand-based market research company with annual turnover of £5.6m. 04-Jul-2007 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired Retail Forward, the US market research firm with annual revenue of about £4m. 12-Mar-2007 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired Cymfony, the US media analysis company with 56 staff. 27-Feb-2007 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired Sorensen Associates, the US market research company with annual sales of £2.5m. 20-Feb-2007 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired Research Surveys, the South African custom research company with annual turnover of £7.4m. 15-Jan-2007 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired PressWatch Media, the London-based media information provider with 42 staff. 12-Jan-2007 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired Time Research, the Chile-based market research company with 51 staff, for undisclosed terms. 13-Nov-2006 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired Interscience Informacao, the Brazilian market research company, for undisclosed terms. 08-Mar-2005 Taylor Nelson Sofres is to acquire a 75% stake in Area Investigacion, the Spanish market research company with 100 staff, and has an option to acquire the remaining 25%. 12-Feb-2004 Taylor Nelson Sofres has sold MRM Promotional Services to a management buy-out for undisclosed terms, securing the future of 120 jobs, and MRM is seeking new premises in Leicestershire. 14-Aug-2003 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired NFO, the US market research business of Interpublic, for £264m. 15-May-2003 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired Svenska Gallup, the Swedish market research company with 14 staff. 02-Aug-2002 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired Evaliant Media Resources, the US-based provider of online advertising data with 17 staff. 12-Jun-2002 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired Elrick & Lavidge, the US marketing research company with annual turnover of $23m. 15-Apr-2002 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired the custom research division of Greenfield Online, in order to expand its TNS Intersearch business in the US. 05-Feb-2002 Taylor Nelson Sofres is to acquire the broadcast monitoring division of BMC News, which has annual turnover of £1.9m, from Xtreme Group. 04-Feb-2002 Taylor Nelson Sofres is to acquire Theatrical Entertainment Services and sister company RapidChek Reporting, the US supplier of cinema tracking services, for £26m. 09-Nov-2001 Taylor Nelson Sofres is to acquire Sponsorship Information Services, the supplier of intelligence on sponsored events with 36 staff. 02-Oct-2001 Taylor Nelson Sofres is to acquire Circulo Reider, the Mexican supplier of market information with 250 staff and annual turnover of £9m. 12-Jul-2001 Taylor Nelson Sofres is to acquire MDC Research of Finland for £32m, which will expand its market research business in Scandinavia, Russia and the Baltic states. 31-Jan-2001 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired a 46% stake in Central Viewer Survey & Consulting Centre, the Chinese group that measures media viewing figures. 11-Dec-2000 Taylor Nelson Sofres is seeking further acquisitions to expand its market research business, and is particularly interested in IT, health and vehicles. 12-Sep-2000 Taylor Nelson Sofres is to acquire Competitive Media Reporting, the US advertising tracking service, for £56m. 13-Mar-2000 Taylor Nelson Sofres has bought Scan-Fact Marketing, the Norwegian supplier of market information. 21-Oct-1999 Taylor Nelson Sofres has has acquired NIPO, the Dutch market information group, for £13m. 03-Aug-1999 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired two US market research companies - Market Development and QCR Associates - for undisclosed terms. 29-Jun-1999 Taylor Nelson Sofres has acquired a 60% stake in OBOP, the Polish market research company, and a 34% stake in British Balkan Social Surveys of Bulgaria. 02-Nov-1998 Taylor Nelson Sofres is looking for acquisitions to expand its market information business into new countries such as Brazil, South Africa and the Netherlands. 22-Sep-1998 Supermarket sales of own-label groceries are flattening out and some products have already begun to decline, according to new research from Taylor Nelson Sofres. 08-Aug-1998 Taylor Nelson AGB is to acquire Sofres, the French market information company, for £119m, in order to improve the market research services offered to multinational companies. 19-Nov-1997 Taylor Nelson AGB, the market research company, is continuing to expand overseas with a new office in the Czech Republic and further progress in Russia. 26-Mar-1996 Taylor Nelson AGB has won an extra 2 years on its contract to measure TV audiences. 02-Nov-1995 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008