Ringgold Inc. has acquired Frontline Global Marketing Services Ltd (Frontline GMS) and its database, the Consortium Directory Online (CDO).

The Consortium Directory Online (CDO), a collaboration between Frontline GMS and Ringgold, has now been launched and is available at www.consortiumdirectory.com.

Expansion reflects a wider scope from increasing take-up by information industry, as well as more granular approach to identification within institutions.

Ringgold is pleased to announce the appointment of Diane Cogan as European Sales Consultant, continuing their expansion of services to the publishing industry.

A new agreement between EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and Ringgold announces the implementation of the Ringgold Institutional Identifier within EBSCOhost databases.

Partnership provides publishers with a user-friendly hosted service to visualize and explore the often complex relationships between libraries, departments, universities and consortia.

Ringgold announces agreement with Kinokuniya Company Ltd to work together to enhance the accuracy of the entries of the Japanese institutions within Ringgold’s OpenIdentify database.

Partnership provides publishers with access to ‘best of breed’ solutions for hierarchical institutional identifiers and flexible integration, search and analysis of customer data.

Ringgold announces Identify Database now exceeds 125,000 records, last benchmark in 2007 when database contained 75,000 records.

THINK Subscription announces the incorporation of the Ringgold Identifier into the THINK Enterprise software suite.