The Risk Advisory Group (TRAG) today is launching TRAG Markets, a division that will utilize its investigative skills to gather global market and competitor information for companies looking to enter new markets, undertake acquisitions, or review their own performance.
TRAG Markets is headed by James Naylor, an expert in commercial and market intelligence. James joins from a London-based strategic research company, where he advised international clients from the private equity, banking and corporate arenas on a wide range of investment, funding and strategic decisions.
TRAG Markets will provide a full range of investigative services for clients, including market entry evaluation, commercial due diligence and performance assessment. These will complement TRAG’s existing services which include security risk management, investigative due diligence, employee screening and fraud investigations.
The new division has unique access to intelligence information around the world, including the Far East, Eastern Europe and Africa, and interprets the influences and driving forces behind the detailed analysis, the company said.
“The creation of this new consultancy is a natural extension of our business, offering a full approach to business investigations and intelligence,” said Richard Prior, deputy chief executive of The Risk Advisory Group. “Now our clients will be able to use our services to obtain in-depth analysis of commercial, competitive and market data to assist them in the pursuit of commercial opportunities. We believe that we have created a distinctive and compelling service, drawing upon our acknowledged skill in identifying and retrieving data which is difficult to find but which may be critical to the proper assessment of an opportunity.”
The Risk Advisory Group is one of Europe’s leading independent investigations and intelligence consultancies, specializing in providing analysis and advisory services to a wide range of private and public sector organizations. It was founded in late 1997 and has offices in central London, Moscow, Paris and Iraq.