Swedish internet consultancy Halogen AB is merging with Arkwright Enterprises Ltd, a UK-based management consultancy to form a company offering both their areas of expertise in five countries. The new company will retain the Halogen name and be headquartered, for the time being, in Stockholm, with other offices in London, Hamburg, Paris and Oslo. It will have 150 employees and revenue for 1999 of SEK150m ($17.8m).
Halogen director Erik Hornfeldt said the two companies have been collaborating
in joint offerings to a number of customers for some time, and the merger will enable them to provide both types of services on a permanent basis, and across most of the key geographies in northern Europe.
Arkwright strategic director Matthew Evans said the relationship with Halogen had grown up over the last year or so, as the UK company detected increasing demand from its traditional management consultancy customers for advice on internet-related issues such as e-commerce. There a lot of partial solution providers trying to break into this market, but we want to be able to offer both management and internet consulting services, he said.
