Merchant International Group

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Merchant International Group
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Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, advisory board member
Websitewww.merchant-international.co.uk

Merchant International Group (MIG) was a privately owned British strategic research and

corporate intelligence company with offices in London, Hong Kong and Vienna
.

History

Merchant International Group was established in 1982 by

Baroness Chalker of Wallasey.[2] Sir John Wheeler, the former Conservative politician who served as Northern Ireland security minister, served as a non-executive director.[3]

Services

The company worked for a number of UK based

FTSE 100 and 150 of the Fortune 500. MIG also provided global risk research to the World Bank. MIG developed a framework that identified ten categories of Grey Area Dynamics™. Each refers to a range of events, activities and trends that impact upon business.[5]

It provided data to

MIG produced the Marine Piracy Threat Assessment which modelled piracy risks in various parts of the world and was featured each month in the shipping journal Lloyd's List. The reports were some of the first to highlight the statistical increase in global piracy and as a result drew criticism from some parts of the shipping industry for damaging the reputation of some countries and pushing up the cost of insuring vessels entering piracy zones.[7]

Awards

Merchant International Group won the European Service Provider of the Year, 1999-2000 at the European Risk Management Awards magazine International Risk Management. In 2004, the company won an award for Product of the Year from StrategicRisk.[8]

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