Wrap-Up Q1 2005
To All Our Valued Customers:
Alacra had an excellent first quarter, with revenue growth fueled by a dramatic increase in transaction-based sales of content. Significant M&A activity continues to drive usage of market research and credit research reports.
On the product front we added content and made enhancements to our Corporate Connections and Credit Research Portal offerings. We signed a deal to add Board Member Inc. to Corporate Connections, which is scheduled for release in early April. We also signed an agreement and released CreditSights, a rapidly growing provider of independent investment research, to complement the ratings agency research available via Alacra. Other new content added to Alacra includes SourceMedia, the archive of all the former Thomson Media properties which includes American Banker and Investment Dealer�s Digest.
In the second quarter we expect to release a new Corporate Linkage report from D&B, a sample of which will be available on the Alacra home page in a couple of weeks. Several new databases are on tap for the second quarter including Leadership Directories, publisher of 14 directories which cover the 400,000 people who lead the 40,000 major institutions of government, business, professions and the nonprofit sector in the U.S.
On Wednesday April 6, I will be on a panel at an SLA Business & Finance Program: The Art of the Deal Redux. Then later in the month I will be speaking at Buying and Selling eContent, which is scheduled for April 10-12 in Scottsdale. I am on a panel called Who Is Buying Your Content � The Aggregator Assessment. Just prior to Buying and Selling eContent, Alacra will be exhibiting at the Legal Marketing Association conference, and in June I look forard to seeing many of you at SLA in Toronto.
Sincerely,
Steven Goldstein
Chief Executive Officer