2009 Land, Property, Environment & Recyling - UK Key Corporate Changes

1.1 Executive Summary

The Mandis 2009 Key Corporate Changes report for the Land, Property, Environment & Recyling Sector will put you ahead of your competition in terms of market knowledge. This is an in depth report detailing 754 key changes and developments, covering 496 different companies. These are the Key Corporate Changes that have occurred within or to the relevant market participants and that can be considered to have shaped and influenced the overall UK market during the year.

The report includes over 222 pages of Key Corporate Changes including:

• 434 changes driving Job Creation and highlighting growth companies,
• 34 changes giving rise to Redundancies, thus identifying companies that are shrinking and may be potential take-over targets.
• 65 significant Administrations or Liquidations, these may give rise to opportunities for strong market players to cost effectively acquire new assets, staff and clients.
• 77 Major financial changes, which provides valuable market knowledge and insights into the impact on performance of the key players due to of current market forces.
• 57 product and service developments, which identifies those companies responding to significant changes within their marketplace by varying their product mix.

This report is unique within the UK market, as it is the only sector report that is based upon the Key Corporate Changes that have driven change in the market and is completely up to date, as of the report date. The report condenses the details of those change events into brief summaries. These would therefore provide the perfect input to developing your own value added consultancy reports, allowing you to add depth and facts by including specific details of developments within individual companies. The report comprises two principal sections.

The first section consists of a one-line synopsis of every corporate change covered in the report. In this section, organisations with two or more change summaries have been grouped by organisation and indexed alphabetically by organisation name. Within organisation name, the summaries are listed in descending date order with the latest dated summary shown first. For organisations with only a single change summary in the report period, the information is grouped under Other Organisations and is shown in descending date order. The only exceptions to this being those summaries that are considered exceptionally important; these are then also shown under the separate organisation name in the index of organisations.

The second section comprises the detailed text of every event summary covered in the report, each of which is headed by the date and the organisation name. The information is grouped by the type of dynamic change covered by the event summary and is shown in descending date order within that section.