Industrial Info Resources and Protel Form Strategic Business Alliance to Expand European Coverage

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Industrial Info Resources (IIR) (Sugar Land, Texas) and Protel Associates Limited (Taunton, United Kingdom) are proud to announce a strategic business alliance to expand industrial market intelligence in Europe. This new business alliance will provide clients of Industrial Info and Protel more comprehensive coverage in Europe, as well as access to IIR's state-of-the-art online database management solution, PECWeb. IIR CEO Ed Lewis said, "I am very excited about forging a new business alliance with Protel. Protel's industrial market intelligence strengthens our coverage in Europe and provides an immediate win-win proposition for all of our mutual clients. Protel has a stellar reputation over the past 14 years, and we are very proud to be allied with them."

Tony Hough, Managing Director of Protel, said, "At Protel we quickly recognized IIR's commitment to delivering early, accurate and comprehensive information as a perfect match with our own product focus. We're really looking forward to working together to help bring their range of information services to our current and future clients, and I feel sure that Protel's market intelligence will complement IIR's offering. I've no doubt that this is the start of a very long and successful relationship."

John Dick, President of Industrial Info Europe, said, "I recognize Protel as a leading provider of industrial market intelligence in Europe, and I'm excited about collaborating with them to provide expanded coverage to all of our mutual clients across Europe."

Protel Associates is the U.K.'s leading provider of sales intelligence for equipment and service suppliers to the Process Industries with particular emphasis on Chemical Processing, Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical/Biotech and Laboratories. Protel's information is researched, validated and confirmed by a highly skilled and experienced team to provide intelligence that is not available in the public domain.

Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is a marketing information service specializing in industrial process, energy and financial related markets with products and services ranging from industry news, analytics, forecasting, plant and project databases, as well as multimedia services.