Ultima Media launches B2B automotive data, insight and intelligence unit with Automotive Analyst appointment

Harrison, experienced marketplace research and analyst, will paintings with Ultima Media’s Editor-in-Chief, Christopher Ludwig, to help shape the creation of a new enterprise intelligence presenting, presenting perception, data, and evaluation relevant to the company’s 4 expert B2B car media systems (Logistics, Manufacturing, Design and IT). Harrison will take a lead on sourcing and reading facts, producing trend insights, market reports, and forecasts in an effort to be shared and disbursed across all applicable B2B car brands and channels – including automotiveIT International.

More, in particular, Ludwig and Harrison will develop an automotive business intelligence unit so that it will provide a deep analysis of the acute tempo of alternate across the automobile cost chain. Focus areas will include how vehicle electrification is converting manufacturing and logistics, approaches that design and generation are reshaping client and person revel in, traits on pricing and cost across the delivery chain, and plenty more.

The unit, created as a part of Managing Director Gavin Miller’s commercial enterprise approach and plan, will paintings intently with the editors and commercial enterprise directors of automotiveIT International, Automotive Manufacturing Solutions, Automotive Logistics, and Car Design News to discover fashion and evaluation topics. For automotiveIT International, this can encompass working closely with Editor Arjen Bongard and Publisher Neemish Ladwa.

Each of these manufacturers already has large international audiences and deep networks of key choice makers, suppliers and solutions carriers of their disciplines.

Harrison brings extra than ten years’ experience in research and market intelligence, has led on the production of in-intensity market reviews, with an expert cognizance at the car and electronics sectors, in addition, to enjoy in aviation, cyber security, IT, telecommunications and greater. He changed into maximum these days Head of Reports for Visiongain, where he oversaw the manufacturing of two hundred marketplace intelligence reviews annually. He was additionally the lead analyst for the business enterprise’s automobile reviews.

Harrison said: “I’m delighted to be joining Ultima Media, a business in transition, with the goal of supporting international B2B automotive operators grow their enterprise through statistics, insight, and intelligence. The unexpectedly converting global car panorama requires very real attention on supplying the market, our target audience and our clients with analysis, statistics and intelligence and I are extremely joyful to be joining the enterprise on the begin of that adventure.”

Christopher Ludwig pointed to the rising call for trend analysis and insight that is going beyond headlines and buzzwords. “Our audiences and companions tell us that they need sensible, records-driven perception to help them navigate and understand a complicated and converting market, whether or not this is capitalizing on opportunities in connected technology, designing products to preserve tempo with worldwide markets like China, re-comparing the automobile supply chain or managing margin stress,” said Ludwig.

“Daniel brings to Ultima precisely the analytical, research and statistics capabilities that we want to help our audience and industrial partners to navigate via these difficult however interesting instances.”

About Ultima Media

Ultima Media’s car manufacturing, logistics, layout, and IT Technology systems each provide the industry and its audiences with worldwide news, tales, perception, intelligence and connections, one year a yr. Our portfolio of magazines, websites, and occasions channels underpin each of our systems to inform, teach, encourage and make connections, whether or not you are an automobile maker, elements supplier, provider, software or system company throughout the supply chain, logistics, design or IT fee chain.

Ultima Media is owned by Süddeutscher Verlag and the SWMH Group, one in every of Germany’s main publishing, media, and services organization. Its portfolio includes countrywide and local newspapers, along with the famed paper of file, Süddeutsche Zeitung, in addition to global B2B media and professional services.