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Annual Financial Statements for 2007  1.29 Mb 


IMSG Press Releases
30 June 2008
Annual Report and Accounts  42 kb 
 
24 June 2008
One2Remember International launch following acquisition of EY ZHN  62 kb 
 
16 June 2008
Results for the year ended 31 December 2007  175 kb 
 
23 May 2008
Issue of Equity  45 kb 
 
Executive Directors

Gregory Neil David Thain - Chairman and CEO (aged 53)
Gregory is the founder of the Group. He has over 25 years experience in marketing, sales, publishing and market research. From 1985 to 1993 he was Chief Executive of International Communication & Data Plc (ICD), a company whose shares were traded on the Unlisted Securities Market of the London Stock Exchange. Gregory came to Russia in 1993 at which time he established one of the first domestic market research agencies, named RMRC. This was acquired in 1998 by GfK Rus, the Russian subsidiary of GfK Group, a large European market research company. In 1996 he founded the Company, one of the first domestic agencies specialising in Below-the-Line marketing. From 1998 to 1999, Gregory was Managing Director of GfK Rus. He resigned from GfK Rus in 1999 to devote his time substantially to the Company. Between 1990 and 1995 he was Chairman of the Russian branch of Conservatives Abroad.

Michael Green - Managing Director International Markets (aged 35)
Michael rejoined the Group in November 2006, having previously worked for IMSG in Moscow for ten years, during which time he was Managing Director from 1998-2004. He returned to London in 2004 to become Head of UK Consulting for CPM International, an Omnicom Group company.
Michael is based in the Group's offices in London and Istanbul and is responsible for managing and developing IMSG's businesses in Turkey, Romania and Hungary. Michael has an MA (Hons) degree in Natural Sciences from Downing College, Cambridge University.

Adrian Stewart — Director Specialist Marketing (aged 33)
Adrian came to Russia in 1998 to join an IMSG affiliating marketing research company called RMRC, as marketing manager. After a few months, he moved to IMSG focusing in developing new business areas for IMS. In 2000 Adrian assumed control of the Direct Marketing Division within IMSG. In 2001 he was promoted to Client Service Director to co-ordinate the development of IMSG's Customer Contact Center, as well as controlling several core IMS Accounts. In 2004, Adrian became Director of IMS Financial and IMS Retail Business Units. Prior to coming to Russia, he worked for the Gazelle publishing company in the UK. Adrian holds a degree in European Philosophy from the University of Anglia and a MA in American Studies from Keele University, UK.

Terrance Livingstone – Group Financial Director (aged 42)
Mr. Livingstone joined IMSG from the market research agency Henley Centre Headlight Vision (a WPP group company) where he has been Finance Director since August, 2005. He took up his position in IMSG on 1 October 2006. He is based at IMSG's new London offices and report directly to the Chairman. Mr Livingstone was previously Group Finance Director of Tarantula International Limited, a below-the-line marketing agency with operations in Russia, China, Japan and the UK. Mr Livingstone joined Tarantula in 2003 and moved to the Henley Centre after WPP's acquisition of Tarantula's UK operations in 2005. From 1999-2003, Mr Livingstone was Commercial Director of IMSG.


NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
Dr. Daniel Thorniley - Non-Executive Director (aged 51)
Daniel joined the Board in 2005 as a non-executive director. Daniel is Senior Vice President of the Economist Group based in Vienna. He has over 25 years experience of high-level analytical, consultancy and journalistic work. As a Senior Consultant on global corporate business trends, with a focus on emerging markets and Russia, Daniel makes regular briefings to top executives of client companies on banking, financing, politics and economic situation. Daniel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Worcester College, University of Oxford, a Diploma in Russian Language and Soviet Politics from University of Surrey and a Doctorate in Soviet political economy from the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (UK). He is an author of several economic and business books and a regular contributor to "The Economist" and "Time" magazines.

Simon Dunlop - Non-Executive Director (aged 40)
Simon joined the Board in April 2008 as a non-executive director. Simon is a founding partner and director of EmCo Capital Partners Ltd., a private equity investment group based in Moscow and focused on the Russian consumer market. Simon is also Chairman of Russian Cinema Holdings Ltd., one of Russia's leading regional operators of multiplex cinemas and bowling alleys and co-founder and Chairman of Greenleaf Ingredients OOO in Russia. Previously, until 2006, Simon was Director of Strategic Planning of Bridgetown Snackfoods OOO, one of the leading manufacturers of snackfoods in the CIS, which he co-founded in 1999. Simon's past appointments also include Head of Sales, distribution and logistics for Philip Morris Russia, where he developed and implemented a sales and distribution strategy for the full portfolio of PM products in Russia.

Thomas Gad - Non-Executive Director (aged 57)
Thomas joined the Board in April 2008 as a non-executive director. Thomas is founder and director of Stockholm based Brandflight AB, a brand strategy consultancy and a branding advisory company with offices in Stockholm, London, Moscow, Hamburg, Paris and Johannesburg. He has worked on brand development, communication and advertising for some of the best known companies in the world, including Nokia (where he co-created the famous slogan "Connecting People"), SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Procter & Gamble, Compaq, Microsoft, Telia, SEB, and Nordea. Thomas is the author of the bestselling '4-D Branding' published in 2001 and the co-author of 'Managing Brand Me', published in 2002. As well as writing, Thomas gives lectures on branding across the world and he is the founder of Medinge Group, an international think-tank on branding. Thomas was Creative Director at Grey Advertising for 17 years.

Directors responsibilities re accounts

Jersey companies law requires that every company must keep accounting records which are sufficient to show and explain its transactions and are such as to disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the Company and to enable the Directors to ensure that any accounts prepared by the Company comply with the requirements of the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991, as amended (the "Law"). The Directors must prepare accounts for a period of not more than 18 months beginning on the date the Company was incorporated or if the Company has previously prepared a profit and loss account, beginning at the end of the period covered by the most recent account.

The accounts must be prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and show a true and fair value of the profit or loss of the Company for the period and the state of the Company's affairs at the end of the period and comply with all requirements of the Law. As the Company is a public company, within 7 months after the end of the financial period, the accounts for that period must be prepared and examined and reported upon by auditors.

In addition, in respect of each financial period the Directors must deliver to the registrar of companies in Jersey a copy of the accounts for the period signed on behalf of the Directors by one of them together with a copy of the report thereon by the auditors.

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