Experian Share Price (EXPN)

EXPN - Experian Investor Summary

Experian Public Limited Company was previously the Experian Group Ltd. It is an information services provider with its main business activity being to act as the holding company of Experian Group. This company is a business service organisation and it splits its trading activities into four main areas. The Credit Services business assists lenders with their credit offering decisions, to allow customers to obtain finance. The Decision Analytics business helps other companies to measure and assess the extent of risk associated with courses of business action and to model different lending scenarios to support lending strategies and decision making. The Marketing Services Division of Experian helps its business customers to build on existing relationships to make them more profitable and to reach new customer markets using targeted messaging and new media. Finally the Interactive business offers consumers the chance to review and monitor their personal credit files over a secure internet site as well as enabling them to target and research the latest financial products and deals. Until November of 2008 there was also a transaction processing business, since disposed of. In December of 2008, Experian acquired SearchAmerica. John Peace is the Chairman of the Board and Donald Robert is the Chief Executive Officer.

In January 2009, Don Robert the CEO of Experian commented on the third quarter performance of 2008 saying that the company had performed well and delivered a good organic revenue growth. This was in part due to excellent performance in the Consumer Direct Division and increased levels of customer refinancing in America. However, it anticipated difficult trading conditions in later 2009 alongside the wider market environment.