Global Compliance Services, Inc. announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Ethical Leadership Group, the leading global ethics and compliance consulting firm. Founded in 1993, Ethical Leadership Group has helped 25% of the Fortune 200 in over 40 countries around the world foster business cultures of integrity. Ethical Leadership Group's areas of expertise encompass assessment, strategy, communications, and training.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Business Wire EON) January 9, 2008 --
Global Compliance Services,
Inc. announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Ethical
Leadership Group, the leading global ethics and compliance
consulting firm. Founded in 1993, Ethical Leadership Group has helped
25% of the Fortune 200 in over 40 countries around the world foster
business cultures of integrity. Ethical Leadership Group’s
areas of expertise encompass assessment, strategy, communications, and
training.
Dennis Muse,
CEO of Global Compliance, states, “The
addition of ethics and compliance risk assessment, program evaluation,
and customized, instructor-led training to our already broad product and
service line firmly solidifies Global Compliance as the single provider
able to deliver an integrated solution including all the elements of an
effective ethics and compliance program as defined by the Organizational
Sentencing Guidelines.” Muse continues, “Ethical
Leadership Group becomes the thread that weaves all of our products and
services together. We are ecstatic to add the experience, expertise, and
industry credibility brought by Ethical Leadership Group’s
entire consultant team.”
Global Compliance has led the ethics and compliance industry for 27
years, having introduced the original compliance reporting hotline. The
company currently serves more than 2,000 organizations throughout the
world with its integrated product and service solutions including ethics
and compliance risk assessment, code of conduct, communications
campaigns, online, computer-based, and instructor-led training,
reporting hotlines/helplines, case management, investigations, data
analytics, mystery shopping, program evaluations, and employee exit
interviews.
“I have long admired Global Compliance for
their leadership in the ethics and compliance field,”
states Steve
Priest, founder and CEO of Ethical Leadership Group. “Their
clients, like ours, value product quality, service, and industry insight
above all else. Joining forces with Global Compliance will allow us to
offer turn-key solutions for clients who desire them, and an unsurpassed
database of benchmarking insight for those clients looking for
improvement in a specific ethics or compliance area.”
Ethical Leadership Group will continue to operate under its current name
and will continue to provide independent assessment services. The firm
will also work in tandem with the entire Global Compliance organization
to provide comprehensive and integrated ethics, compliance, and
corporate social responsibility solutions.
About Global Compliance
Founded in 1981, Global Compliance provides products and services that
create and maintain a business culture of ethical and compliant
behavior. Global Compliance delivers offerings to public and private
corporations, universities, colleges, government entities, and
not-for-profit organizations, and currently serves over one-half of
America’s Fortune 100 and one-third of America’s
Fortune 1000 corporations as well as many European- and Asian-based
corporations. Global Compliance is headquartered in Charlotte, NC. http://www.globalcompliance.com
About Ethical Leadership Group
Founded in 1993, Ethical Leadership Group has earned a reputation as the
ethics and compliance industry’s leading
consulting firm. Ethical Leadership Group has consulted for
multinational corporations throughout the world with specialties in
ethics and compliance assessments and development of codes of conduct,
policies, and communications in addition to blended training solutions
for boards of directors, executives, middle management and front-line
employees. The firm also consults in the discipline of corporate social
responsibility. To date, Ethical Leadership Group has provided
strategies and solutions for 25% of America’s
Fortune 200. http://www.ethicalleadershipgroup.com
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