On 2 November 2007, IHS Global Insight acquired SupplierBusiness, bringing together the recognized market leader in global automotive forecasting services with the world's leading provider of automotive supply-based research and intelligence.

About IHS Global Insight

IHS Global Insight (www.ihsglobalinsight.com), an IHS company, provides the most comprehensive economic and financial information available on countries, regions and industries, using a unique combination of expertise, models, data and software within a common analytical framework to support planning and decision-making. Through the world's first same-day analysis and risk assessment service, IHS Global Insight provides immediate insightful analysis of market conditions and key events around the world, covering economic, political, and operational factors. IHS (NYSE: IHS) is a leading global source of critical information and insight, dedicated to providing the most complete and trusted information and expertise. IHS product and service solutions span four areas of information that encompass the most important concerns facing global business today: Energy, Product Lifecycle, Security, and Environment supported by Macroeconomics. IHS employs about 4,100 people in 28 countries.

About SupplierBusiness

SupplierBusiness is a business research company focused on automotive supply base issues. We provide the most comprehensive coverage of the global automotive supplier community, adding between twenty and thirty original stories to our archives on developments every week. All editorial coverage is originally researched by SupplierBusiness, and most appears exclusively in SupplierBusiness' weekly Insight or monthly Analysis newsletters, both of which are published both on this website and in PDF format. In addition to these subscription products, we also publish and compile reports and databases on the global supply base.

Our Coverage
We analyse purchasing and product development strategies at OEMs, and put those together with the supplier viewpoint on those same processes through regular surveys of leading automotive suppliers. We also cover the evolving range of business models followed by suppliers through analysis of strategies across key decision making areas, such as finance, marketing, new product development, human resources and purchasing, together with its partners at investment banks, consultancies and suppliers around the world.

SupplierBusiness also undertakes surveys of developments in the industry and the supplier community, and is widely recognised for its serious and original research into topics of importance to the global automotive supply base.

Editorial Team
The editorial team includes experienced editorial staff in North America, Europe and Asia. SupplierBusiness visits all the major auto shows and industry events around the world from Shanghai and Tokyo to SAE and Traverse City, Geneva and Frankfurt. We also attend supplier and OEM press conferences, ride-and-drives and industry conferences, and conduct exclusive one-on-one interviews with leading industry executives.

Our Network
In addition, SupplierBusiness maintains co-operative relationships with a wide variety of information providers for the automotive sector. Our researchers can provide information on conferences, published reports or research specialisms of consultancies to help you address all your automotive industry information needs.

Clients
Our clients include all the major automotive manufacturers and over 250 of the world's leading suppliers. We are pleased to be partners to some of the leading financial and business service providers to the sector.

More information

• SupplierBusiness Insight
• SupplierBusiness Analysis
• SupplierBusiness Reports
• SupplierBusiness Databases