France
Greenpeace strengthens investigations division with corporate intelligence hiring

France, Russia
As top French firms quit Russia, what next for their local security contractors?

Russian private security firms, known as "chops", are continuing to prosper in Moscow, even though some of their top clients from France - CAC40 companies - are pulling out of the Russian market.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Othrys, Ercom, Hart Security, Risk&Co

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week we go to London and Paris.

LondonA TV producer at the helm of intelligence firm Othrys.

ParisErcom and Suneris made full Thales units with Cyril Autant appointment.

LondonHart Security to dispatch intelligence experts to UK's most at-risk embassies.

ParisRisk&Co brings ex-Amarante manager Dimitri Akarawitage to boost corporate security management line.

Europe, United Kingdom
Welund keeps tabs on environmentalists

Investigations into environmental groups have been conducted for as long as there has been a corporate intelligence business. But few companies are as involved as Britain's Welund, which was exposed in Vienna earlier this month.

Spotlight | France
Struggling private security sector faces further concentration

Confronted with their traditional clients' harsh budget cuts and in the absence of solid alternative revenue streams, a number of French private security firms look set to merge or fold.