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Research Now - Major acquisition in Canada

March 2007

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • RNOW
  • Price:
  • 535p
Following our January article on online fieldwork specialist Research Now (FT sector: AIM, Media), we finally met up with chief executive Chris Havemann after its final results but before its first major acquisition, which triggered a surge in the shares to a new high of 545p. As we noted last time, Research Now provides surveys and data collection reports, derived from its world-wide panel of online respondents, which are then sold to market research agencies. Growth has been quite dramatic and fuelled by two main factors; market research firms don’t want the hassle of running their own international panel network, while online interviews brings huge advantages, such as speed, accuracy and scalability, over traditional tel ...

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