EHS professional services firm Cedrec joins Barbour
Environment and bespoke legal register firm Cedrec Information Services has become part of Barbour. The deal enables Barbour to improve its services to clients looking for health and safety advice.
Teresa Dier, Managing Director at Barbour, said, “We’ve been working together for over a year and coming together under one brand is the next logical step. It will help us to focus our energy and expertise, and we’re excited to be working together towards the same goal: providing comprehensive support to our clients with keeping their employees safe and healthy, and operating in a way that protects the environment.”
Cedrec Information Services is a digital provider of consolidated environment, health and safety (EHS) legislation and legal register consultancy. Following the firm’s £3 million acquisition by Barbour’s parent company Marlowe in 2022, Cedrec has now been integrated into the EHS wing of Barbour.
Established in 1957, Barbour is the oldest and one of the best-known providers of guidance, legislation and standards to support organisations with their EHS compliance. This includes an online authoritative library which is updated daily, ready-made and editable communications tools, and an updated legal register facility that enables organisations to put important compliance frameworks in place. Barbour covers health and safety, environment and energy, estates and facilities management, fire safety, mental health and wellbeing, and international.
Meanwhile, Cedrec was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Gateshead. The firm currently has over 1,000 international clients to their online subscription service enabling people to keep on top of their health and safety, environmental, energy and planning compliance – and also provides legislation, guidance, bespoke legal register consultancy and training.
Gareth Billinghurst from Cedrec said, “Becoming part of Barbour EHS will allow us to offer our clients a substantially strengthened service. We’ve been working closely with the team at Barbour over the past year to ensure a smooth transition and look forward to showing our clients the many benefits that this move will bring.”
EHS market
Even though around 90% of businesses in the UK have clear safety standards and a proactive approach to accident prevention, the global health and safety consulting and training services market is growing quickly – as the rest of the world looks to catch up.
A recent study valued the market at $40.8 billion in 2022, while estimating it would reach $68.5 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 6.6%. This presents a key opportunity for UK consultancies in exporting their services to emerging markets.
