Dow Jones Inc. (“Dow Jones”), today announced it has acquired Eco-Movement, a leading global platform for EV charging station data. Eco-Movement will operate as part of OPIS, Dow Jones’s growing energy business. Eco-Movement joins Dow Jones at a time of strong growth for its professional information business, which includes an expansive portfolio of products and services across the risk, research and energy sectors. Its platform features almost 2mn connectors across more than 80 countries – adding to Dow Jones’s suite of energy products and services available to customers.
Eco-Movement strengthens Dow Jones Energy with best-in-class data and analytics, enabling smarter decisions across the energy transition for retailers, fleets, CPOs, utilities, and financial institutions. It builds on OPIS’s energy transition activity in carbon markets, clean fuels, solar, and hydrogen. The acquisition of Eco-Movement, combined with OPIS and A2i, expands Dow Jones’s position as an established vendor in the energy data industry.
Founded in 2006 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Eco-Movement is a leading global charge point data platform. The company collects, optimizes and enriches EV charging station data, and has built an extensive data platform with public and semi-public EV charging points and their real-time availability.
IMPROVED acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Eco-Movement and its selling shareholders in this successful cross-Atlantic transaction. The momentum in the EV transition is driving strong demand for scalable energy data and software solutions. Fueled by rapidly falling costs of electrified transportation, substantial commitments by OEMs, and accelerating rollout of corporate fleets, EV adoption continues to accelerate and long-term growth is inevitable. We see strategic buyers actively seeking to acquire and integrate capabilities in-house and reduce reliance on third parties. M&A and investment appetite remain high with strong interest in the EU market for mature high-quality companies with proven technologies and growth track-record. IMPROVED is well-positioned to help clients capitalize on these opportunities, achieve successful transactions, and benefit from our signature approach: creative, tailor-made deal-making.
