Huntsworth

Assets

For 2007, Huntsworth manages the following networks:

• Capital Communications,
• Citigate Dewe Rogerson,
• Quiller Consultants,
• Mmd,
• Trimedia Group et al.

Presented in 32 countries.

History

2007

Purchase of Infomost Communications in Russia

Kommersant^[1] market^[2] spoke about the negotiations between the British PR holding Huntsworth and the agency Infomost Communications in September 2007]. The information was confirmed by Infomost co-owner Dmitry Manakov. According to him, Huntsworth conducts due dilegence of the company. "We are constantly negotiating in a particular country, but never disclose such information," Huntsworth headquarters told Kommersant. Infomost is already a Russian partner of the Citigate Dewe Rogerson network, part of Huntsworth and specializing in investor relations. In particular, both companies provided information support at IPO "," Severstal OGK-4, OGK-5, ",." PEAK Mr. Manakov does not exclude that after the deal, the agency will change its name to Citigate Dewe Rogerson.

Infomost-Kom LLC was founded in 1994. He specializes in corporate and financial communications, relations with government agencies. Among the company's customers are Volga-Dnepr, EADS, Rolls-Royce, Sabre Holdings, TriGranit. Co-owners of the agency are general director Boris Rybak and managing director Dmitry Manakov. According to experts, revenue in 2006 exceeded $1.5 million.

The general director of the ROME-Porter Novelli agency Vladimir Frolov believes that the Infomost business can cost up to $2 million. The assessment of other experts is more than $3 million: the Russian PR business is estimated at a ratio of 7-8 to EBITDA. At the same time, the profitability of the business ranges from 20% to 30%, said Sergey Trofimenkov, owner of Point Passat. "Infomost has a professional, compact team aimed primarily at consulting, that is, expensive services. Therefore, their profitability is close to the upper border, "said Maslov PR CEO Mikhail Maslov.

Infomost may become the third Russian asset of Huntsworth. See below. So far, only the British WPP Group has announced purchases of PR agencies operating in Russia: in early September, the communication holding acquired 49.9% of the PBN agency (political and business consulting in Russia and the CIS countries), which showed revenue of $10.6 million in 2006.

Opening of the Global Consulting Group office in Moscow

In May 2007, the Moscow office of the Global Consulting Group network was opened, which, like Citigate Dewe Rogerson, specializes in investor relations and serves, in particular, Lukoil.

2006

Revenue $243 million

Revenue in 2006 - $243 million, operating profit - $53.2 million.

Purchase of Mmd PR network

In 2006, Huntsworth acquired the Eastern European PR network Mmd, which has its own representative office in Russia, which later began to provide services under the Grayling brand.

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