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Plot thickens in TMN takeover

Mike Danson, who last year sold his research group Datamonitor to Informa for £500 million, has upped his stake at under-offer internet marketing specialist TMN. Read

Tangent makes approach for TMN

Marketing group Tangent has confirmed it has made a takeover approach for larger AIM peer TMN and already claims the support of three of the latter’s major shareholders. Read

TMN to buy bombed-out IBG

TMN, one of the UK’s biggest online direct marketing companies, has made a recommended £9.84 million all-share offer for rival AIM venture Internet Business Group. Read

TMN flying online

Following a healthy dose of internal investment, internet marketeer TMN enjoyed a record October and has seen the momentum continue into the second half. Read

Recommendations

TMN
BUY 07/01/2008

Online marketing specialist TMN looks a more solid bet as it makes moves to consolidate its fast-growing sector and expand into Europe, most recently splashing out £8m on Dutch peer Tapps. Read
Companies: TMN   

TMN Group
BUY 07/12/2006

Irreversible migration towards online advertising, as well as increased usage of the internet by consumers, jointly underpin the growth prospects at online direct marketing counter TMN Group, the dotcom survivor formerly known as themutual.net. Read
Companies: TMN   

themutual.net
BUY 14/02/2006

Having completed a brace of takeovers in late 2005, Mark Smith – boss of online marketing specialist themutual.net – is in optimistic mood. Read
Companies: TMN   

Company Watch NEWS: Johnson wears it well
 30/03/2005

Johnson Service, the main board-quoted support services outfit we backed in February 2004, is on a roll. Under the stewardship of CEO Stuart Graham, the business is now exposed to growing, rather than slowing, markets following Graham's successful repositioning of the group as a focused textile related services and facilities management outfit. Read
Companies: ASC    ASO    HVX    IDS    JSG    TMN    WHY   

themutual.net
HOLD 17/03/2005

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Companies: TMN   

themutual.net rides online marketing boom
BUY 02/12/2004

The upsurge in online marketing may have come too late for most dotcom warriors – but not for themutual.net. With several new initiatives underway, and plans for entering Europe, the internet marketing business has a lot going for it. Read
Companies: TMN   

Sector Articles

AIM news

Investors’ recent aversion to risk and a sell-off across the small-cap scene saw the index slump 6.7 per cent to 952.5 points last month, but a hubbub of bid talk has kept investors entertained. Read

Ad spend falls, says IPA

Advertising budgets received their steepest cutback in two years in the fourth quarter of 2007, following three quarters of strong growth. Read