Market Research Company for Sale in London, United Kingdom

- Total number of clients since the start: around 100.
- The company was created in February 2006 (first registered in Belize, then registered in the United Kingdom since 12 July 2007)
- The company launched the EU emissions trading scheme Database in March 2006, gathering data on the 11,000 industrial facilities participating in the EU cap-and-trade program.
- Then, in 2007, we launched the EU ETS Company database, which displays data at company level, showing, in particular, the company’s surplus or shortage of free carbon allowances (and therefore the financial impact).
- Every year, we publish the EU ETS company rankings, which provide insight into the largest players in the EU ETS market (largest CO2 emitting companies, companies with the largest surplus and shortage of free carbon allowances).
- In 2009, our company partnered with Thomson Reuters and included the Thomson Reuters interface in the EU Emissions trading scheme database.
- We later launched the world database, which included data on a number of carbon markets across the globe.
- In total, more than 13,000 people have subscribed to our data platform since the start of our business (representing currently around 5,000 active users with a valid email address).
- Which business model do we propose for the future owner of the company?
- The company (cap-and-trade programs, carbon offset schemes) has been developing rapidly in recent years and new carbon markets are planned in a large number of countries in the near future. This will create huge opportunities for carbon project developers, and carbon traders, which in turn will drive demand for better market information and transparency through data platforms such as our company.
- The carbon market growth is also driving the demand for the supply of carbon pricing data (the price of a carbon quota in a specific emissions trading scheme, as well as prices of carbon offsets).
In summary, the business model of the company taking over could be:
- To develop a comprehensive world database based on carbon markets.
- To provide carbon price data offerings (live data feeds)
- To produce or relay news articles (from third parties) related to carbon markets and the energy transition.
- To develop sales on cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, Snowflake).
List of company’s assets:
- Large registered user database (5,000 active users with a valid email address – in total, 13,000 users have registered to our data platform since the company launch)
- Online presence since February 2006 (Strong Google ranking, external links, number of daily visitors)
- Solid brand knowledge across the market (carbon traders and brokers, institute and university researchers, energy and business consultants, asset managers and investment companies, journalists)
- Broad and historical presence in the media (at the international level: Japan, Europe, North America), as well as in research papers as a data source (universities, research institutes)
- Website: User-friendly databases developed with open source tools (PHP, LAMP environment)
- Carbon registry data archived since 2006.
- Current managers will be available to help the new management for a smooth transition and for practical, technical and business strategy advice.