Frost & Sullivan was founded in 1961 in New York City with a specific mission: Publish world-class market consulting information and intelligence on emerging high-technology and industrial markets.
Frost & Sullivan works interactively with clients to develop innovative growth strategies.
Frost & Sullivan was founded in 1961 in New York City with a specific mission: To publish world-class market consulting information and intelligence on emerging high-technology and industrial markets. The company soon developed a reputation as one of the world's leading companies in growth consulting and corporate training. Now well into its fourth decade, Frost & Sullivan has won a worldwide reputation for publishing high-quality growth consulting and training reports in more than 20 major industries.
Through the 1960s, Frost & Sullivan pioneered market consulting, monitoring new technologies, tracking changes in distribution channels, forecasting market trends, and performing strategic analysis of competitors. Frost & Sullivan was always at the forefront - just as new markets and technologies appeared - with up-to-date research on potential markets. Frost & Sullivan was the first company to offer its services on electronic tape media, delivering world military equipment market data in 1962.
In the 1970s, Frost & Sullivan established a European headquarters in London and developed the first pan-European growth consulting reports. The company founded its Corporate Training division in 1972. Today it is one of Europe's premier corporate training centers. The training focuses on corporate management, leadership skills, sales and marketing, data communications, and information technology.
Frost & Sullivan's Executive Summits division was also launched in the 1970s. Frost & Sullivan Executive Summits are uniquely designed to integrate training, research, and strategic growth consulting skills with communication among the players in the industry. The events provide senior-level management executives with insights into market opportunities, competitive threats, technical trends, emerging markets, and competitive strategies. Frost & Sullivan continues to provide participants with unique strategic content, competitive benchmarking, industry focus, and the opportunity to network with other key industry executives.
In the 1980s, Frost & Sullivan developed the "Market Engineering" Consulting system and began working directly with clients struggling to address key industry challenges, opportunities, and problems. The "Market Engineering" system has proven to be very effective in addressing our clients' business challenges and has developed into a strong and thriving Frost & Sullivan consulting business. The Market Engineering Consulting program also drove the development of a series of Executive Tutorial manuals, which help our clients develop their own strategies and solutions to their business challenges.
In the 1990s, client demand supported Frost & Sullivan's expansion into Asia with research and consulting offices in Singapore, China, India, and Japan. The continuing economic growth and potential of these markets will not be overlooked by Frost & Sullivan or its clients.
Frost & Sullivan also developed several worldwide "Customer Engineering Centers" in the early 1990s to fulfill our clients' requests for more customer surveys and analysis on new product launches and product development ideas. These centers have world-class survey instrument-development and analysis skills as well as covering virtually every language in the world. They play a major role in helping our clients become more "customer-focused".
The year 1998 witnessed the successful launch of a new division called Stratecast Partners. This division delivers actionable, conclusive and insightful strategic analysis utilized by telecommunications industry senior executives in making critical business strategy, technology strategy and tactical strategy decisions. Stratecast Partners offers a three part solution made up of: Access to its strategy staff; Access to the "fruits" of its sustaining research and analysis practice; and, Access to its incomparable strategic assessments of communications companies and technology sectors. Please visit www.stratecast.com for more information on the division.
The Decision Support Database service(DSD) was developed in 2000 to provide clients with baseline market measurements standardized and unified by country and by year. These have become an indispensable tool for client's business planning and forecasting projects.
In 2001 Frost & Sullivan successfully launched the Country Industry Forecast(CIF) service which provides economic analysis and forecasting by industry rather than by country. Also, launched in 2001 was a program of comprehensive industry newsletters provided to our clients to keep them abreast of market trends and news. Market Insights are written by our global analyst and consulting team to provide value to each issue.
In March 2001, Frost & Sullivan acquired Technical Insights (TI) adding a superior technology research capability to its suite of services. Technical Insights offers several technology subscription services as well as high-end technology analysis reports. TI's mission is to provide intelligence to executives and technology managers worldwide on technical developments that seem poised for the fastest growth.
Frost & Sullivan's eBroadcast Division will start delivering valuable, cutting-edge content to its executive clients through interactive forums on the internet, beginning July 2002. By combining the power and cost-efficiency of the Web with the impact of streaming audio and video, Frost & Sullivan's eBroadcasts are one hour topic-specific seminars that are both engaging and informative.
2002 was a big vision year for Frost & Sullivan as we completely restructured and focused our client value proposition and vision based on a growth and partnership with our clients. In this year we developed our Growth Partnership Services which describes our new integrated service approach to our client relationships and our new Growth Consulting Model and methodologies.
In 2004 we will see more global coverage expansion into Asia and Latin America with new offices opening in Brazil, Mexico, Japan and Korea.
The future looks bright for Frost & Sullivan and its client partners.
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