{"id":64484,"date":"2014-07-31T10:51:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T08:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=64484"},"modified":"2014-07-31T11:39:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T09:39:44","slug":"foneworx-buys-into-bmi-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/64484\/foneworx-buys-into-bmi-research\/","title":{"rendered":"FoneWorx buys into BMI Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FoneWorx, a listed telecoms and IT solutions provider, has acquired a 35% stake in BMI Research for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p>BMI was the result of the 2008 merger of BMI Foodpack and Adcheck Research, specializing in quantitative and qualitative consumer and industrial research in various sectors, including the retail market.<\/p>\n<p>In May, FoneWorx also acquired a 44% stake in market research company, Living Facts, for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p>Living Facts was formed in 2001 as a market research corporation providing Quantitative and Qualitative services.<\/p>\n<p>BMI provides research into a number of sectors and industries including Apparel, Automotive, consumer packaged goods (CPG), financial, foodservices, ICT, manufacturing, packaging, raw materials, retail and wholesale.<\/p>\n<p>FoneWorx said it will continue to look at other similar acquisitions in the development of this new strategic direction and the accumulation of the necessary skill sets.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on FoneWorx<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"FoneWorx buys into market research company\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/58995\/foneworx-buys-into-market-research-company\/\"><strong>FoneWorx buys into market research company<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Foneworx lifts interim revenue by 32%\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/53745\/foneworx-lifts-interim-revenue-by-32\/\"><strong>Foneworx lifts interim revenue by 32%<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Foneworx lifts its dividend 71%\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/46744\/foneworx-lifts-its-dividend-71\/\"><strong>Foneworx lifts its dividend 71%<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FoneWorx, a listed telecoms and IT solutions provider, has acquired a 35% stake in BMI Research for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,8506,1807],"class_list":["post-64484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-active","tag-bmi-research","tag-foneworx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64488,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64484\/revisions\/64488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}