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Longitude's core set of services relates to the production of white papers, research reports and supporting digital content across a range of sectors and industries, most notably technology, professional services and financial services, but it also operates in the legal, energy and industrial sectors.

About the company

Longitude was founded in 2011 by Rob Mitchell and James Watson, both former managing editors at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Gareth Lofthouse, who was Editorial Director for EMEA at the EIU, joined Longitude as managing director at the beginning of 2013.

The company name was inspired by the Longitude Prize that was established by the British government in 1714, to encourage leading thinkers to devise an innovative method for precisely determining a ship's longitude.

The Longitude Prize is an inducement prize contest offered by Nesta, a British lottery funded charity, in the spirit of the 18th-century Longitude rewards. It runs a £10 million prize fund, offering an £8 million payout to the team of researchers that develops an affordable, accurate, and fast point of care test for bacterial infection that is easy to use anywhere in the world. Such a test will allow the conservation of antibiotics for future generations and help solve the global problem of antimicrobial resistance.

In 2017, the Financial Times ranked it the 408th [2] fastest growing company in Europe, as part of the inaugural FT 1000 ranking. [3] In 2016, the company was selected as a Leap 100 [4] high-growth UK company by City A.M. and Mishcon de Reya.

In February 2018, the Financial Times - acquired a majority stake in Longitude, [1] making the agency part of the FT group.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Financial Times acquires majority stake in research and content specialists Longitude". Financial Times. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
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  3. "Longitude scores highly in the FT's ranking of Europe's fastest growing companies". PRWeb. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
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