Alliance agreed between Butterworths Tolley and Mondaq

Citation

Mabey, C. and Thompson, A. (2001), "Alliance agreed between Butterworths Tolley and Mondaq", European Business Review, Vol. 13 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ebr.2001.05413aab.006

Alliance agreed between Butterworths Tolley and Mondaq

Alliance agreed between Butterworths Tolley and Mondaq

Keywords Publishing, Mergers and acquisitions

Butterworths Tolley, part of Reed Elsevier Legal Division and the UK's foremost publisher serving the legal, tax, accountancy and regulatory professions, announced that it has taken a stake in Mondaq, the leading provider of world-wide professional business advisors' knowledge and expertise.

Butterworths Tolley has an unrivalled hard copy product range and in recent years has developed a market-leading suite of online products for its markets.

Mondaq specialises in delivering legal and professional information from top accountancy and legal firms over the Internet. Its collated information can be accessed by third party organisations either via the world's leading business to business online information services – Reuters, Lexis Nexis, Dow Jones, Westlaw, FT Profile, LawTel, The Dialog Corporation's Profound and Datastar, BTs Connect to Business and Interactive Investor – or via Mondaq's own Web site.

The partnership between Mondaq and Butterworths Tolley will enhance the online product offering of them both.

Stephen Stout, group managing director of Butterworths Tolley, who joins the Mondaq board said: "We are constantly looking for partners and in Mondaq we have found a forward thinking business that has shown speed of action and innovation developing its brand – I'm very much looking forward to our working together to develop strong sales and marketing programmes and content enhancement for both businesses."

Commenting on the partnership, Andrew Partridge and Charles Aspinwall, co-founders of Mondaq, said: "Naturally an alliance with a company such as Butterworths Tolley is extremely good news for our business which is looking to expand very quickly. Butterworths Tolley have the bricks and mortar foundations along with a level of innovation seldom found in legal publishers that will allow us to build our content and sales offering very quickly."

Further information contact Stephen Stout, Butterworths Tolley, Halsbury House, 35 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1EL. Tel: +44 (0)20 7227 5670; Fax: +44 (0)20 7400 2595; E-mail: stephen.stout@butterworths.co.uk or Andrew Partridge, Mondaq Ltd, 14 Bowden Street, London SEI 14DS. Tel: +44 (0)20 7820 4019; Fax: +44 (0)20 78200748; E-mail: andrew@mondaq.com