Our story is one of ground-breaking innovation. Bringing together our core capabilities; information, expertise and partnership, we have come a long way since 1980.
1980
- Experian trace its origins to CCN, an information services business established by our former parent company, GUS
1982
- CCN is the first to develop market and credit scoring in the UK.
- Launched CAIS, a system allowing consumer lending organisations to share credit account information on individuals and became the UK’s leading credit bureau.
1983
- Produced the first automated application processing system, Autoscore, now known as CEMS.
1985
- Launched Mosaic, a leading consumer segmentation system and Scope a customer reporting and monitoring solution, (now known as Portfolio Reporting Studio).
1993
- Delphi, a bureau based scorecard is launched in the UK. In the same year, Car Data Check, our vehicle provenance database, and Detect our fraud detection product came to the market place.
1997
- CCN changed its name globally to Experian and became a leading global provider of information and decision analytics.
1998
- Acquired Vehicle Mileage Check to enhance our offering to UK automotive clients.
2001
- Experian Truvue, a customer data integration solution, was launched globally.
- Entered the B2B list market with the launch of the National Business Database.
2002
- Established a new consumer credit reference bureau in Ireland
2003
- CreditExpert, the first online credit reporting service, is launched to consumers in the UK.
- Acquired the direct marketing arm of Yell Data to become the leading force in business-to-business marketing in the UK.
- GUS acquired the outstanding stake in Scorex, a global decision analytics company.
2004
- Acquired CheetahMail, an e-mail marketing and customer intelligence solution and QAS, a leading supplier of address management software in the UK.
2005
- Acquired The Future Foundation Group, the leading consumer think-tank and strategic consultancy and Footfall, a leading provider of information and services related to numbers of people visiting retailers, shopping centres and transport locations.
- Experian is the only UK Company to win the Business of the Year award twice – in 2003 and 2005.
2006
- Acquired ClarityBlue to complement the database management skills in our Marketing Solutions business.
- Acquired Experian BackgroundChecking.com, specialists in conducting identity checks on job applicants and Experian Payments, a market-leading provider of bank account validation and payment processing software.
- Experian received four Business in the Community Big Ticks, in recognition of our long-term commitment to improving educational opportunities for people in Nottingham.
- Our fraud business was presented with the Queens Award for Enterprise, the most prestigious accolade for business performance in the UK.
- On the 11 October 2006, Experian became an independent company, listed on the London Stock Exchange.
2007
- Acquired Hitwise, an Internet market intelligence company. N4 Solutions, a provider of specialist software for the mortgage and financial planning sectors, pH Group, a leading business to business analytics company and Tallyman, the market-leading solution for revenue management and collection.
- Introduced Risk Triggers, a daily alert service which flags at-risk customers to lenders so that they can act quickly to prevent loss before they are exposed to it.
- Developed TrendView, a new segmentation tool that helps businesses to identify new value opportunities with existing customers by monitoring and evaluating their behaviour.
- On an average day, we process two million credit reference enquiries and we help our clients to make more than 20 billion decisions every year.
On this business day in 2008...
- More than 30,000 credit reports will be produced
- More than 22,000 mainframe batch jobs will run
- 90 million online transactions will process
- 1,500 client media items will be handled
- 250,000 users will be connected to our services
- 200 change requests will be successfully implemented
- 2,200 Automated tape requests will be serviced
...to help our customers make better decisions.
