IIQ Holdings, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, IQ Research Limited ("IQ Research") and Rosslyn Research Limited ("Rosslyn"), offers business research consultancy and competitive intelligence services to businesses, with a particular emphasis in the financial sector servicing major UK clearing banks, life insurance companies and pension companies. Specific services include commercial due diligence, competitive intelligence, customer/client research and branding research. IQ Holdings was admitted to AIM on 28 November 2007.

On 9 December 2008 the Company signed conditional agreements to acquire, through its

wholly owned subsidiaries, Viewpoint Field Services Limited ("Viewpoint Field Services") and The Wire Services (UK) Limited ("The Wire Services"), three business divisions known as "Viewpoint Field", "Viewpoint Studios" and "The Wire" from Illuminas Limited, a subsidiary of Media Square plc.

Viewpoint Field and Viewpoint Studios provide specialist qualitative and quantitative research solutions, with particular expertise in fast moving consumer goods, medical, pharmaceutical, business to business, IT, automotive and the children's sectors. Viewpoint Field is one of the UK's largest fieldwork suppliers, specializing in respondent recruitment and face to face surveys. Viewpoint Studios provides focus group viewing complexes.

The Wire is a computer assisted telephone interviewing and online data collection facility. It offers full data processing services, with experience across all industry sectors, business to business and consumer, as well as UK and international markets. The Wire's existing client base is predominantly subcontract business from market research agencies.

The main country of operation is the United Kingdom.

In view of the size of Viewpoint and The Wire in relation to the Company, the Acquisition is treated as a reverse takeover under the AIM Rules for Companies. Accordingly, the Acquisition is conditional on the approval of Existing Shareholders at the General Meeting which is being convened for this and other purposes on 14 January 2009 at 10:00a.m.at CityPoint, One Ropemaker Street, London, EC2Y 9AH.

Listing exchange: AIM

Expected first day of trading: 2009-01-15

Expected money raised: £0.75m