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Expanding
geographically
Experian now
has offices in
36 countries
around the
world following
the opening of
our first office
in India.
Highlights of our year
Experian Annual Report 2007 |13
Investing in people
As part of the demerger, Experian
employees were granted shares to
enable them to associate even more
closely with our goal of building
shareholder value over the long term.
Investing in technology
Secure and efficient data processing is
vital to our success and last year we
began consolidating our three major US
data centres into two, including the
bunkered, secure state-of the-art centre
in McKinney,
Texas.
Product innovation
TrueTouch was one of more than
20 new products launched during the
year; it classifies the UK’s 46 million
adults according to their likely
response to different methods of
communication.
Demerger completed
Experian became an independent
company, listed on the
London Stock Exchange,
successfully raising
£800m to support
future growth
initiatives.
Deepening client
relationships
HSBC and Bank of America were
among many long-established clients
to award major new contracts to
Experian.
Complementary
acquisitions
We made several acquisitions during
the year, including credit bureaux in
Canada and Estonia and marketing
businesses around the world, in order
to complement our existing businesses
and accelerate
their growth.
Investing in data
Information is at the
heart of what Experian
does and we are
always looking to
acquire new sources. In
April 2007, we agreed
to acquire Hitwise, which
provides data on how people use the
Internet.
Developing
new sectors
Our CreditExpert service,
which enables consumers
to manage their own
personal credit
information, provided
over three million
credit reports to UK
subscribers last year
following its introduction
from the US in 2003.