Talk:The Access Group

Update Infobox, Lead, History and Financials to Address Notability Tag

I am editing on behalf of The Access Group as a representative of Babel. I will abide by Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines and submit changes via the Talk page rather than editing the article directly.

I am writing to propose updates to this article to correct outdated financial figures and add missing history. I have a conflict of interest and will not edit the article directly.

I request that the current **Infobox**, **Lead section** (the text before the Table of Contents), and **History section** be removed and replaced with the **Proposed Text** below

• • Reason for change:** The current article displays outdated 2022 financial data (£618m revenue) and lacks significant coverage of the company's 2022 valuation. The proposed text updates the figures to 2025 (sourced to the Annual Report) and adds the £9.2bn valuation sourced to independent secondary sources (Sky News, The Times), which addresses the article's current "unclear notability" tag.

Proposed Text

The Access Group

Industry	Business Software
Founded	1991
Area served	Europe, APAC, USA
Products	Access Evo, Accounting, CRM, HR and Payroll, Operations, Learning
Revenue	£1.16bn
Number of employees	9,732
Website	theaccessgroup.com

The Access Group is a UK-headquartered provider of business Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products, primarily serving small and mid-sized organisations across commercial and non-profit sectors. The company, founded in 1991, has its HQ in Loughborough, England. It operates internationally, serving customers across Europe, the USA, and the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

As of 2025, The Access Group reported an annual revenue of £1.16 billion, employed 9,732 people and served 160,000 commercial, public sector and not-for-profit customers.

Corporate History and Finance

The Access Group began a major expansion strategy following a management buy-out in 2011, characterised by a "buy-and-build" strategy involving numerous acquisitions. By September 2021, the company had reported 16 consecutive years of profitable growth.

In May and June 2022, The Access Group secured substantial investment from its principal shareholders, Hg and TA Associates, alongside a stake sale to the Singapore Government Investment Corporation (GIC). This transaction valued the company at £9.2 billion. Analysts noted that at this valuation, the company would have been ranked approximately 55th in the FTSE 100 had it been a public constituent.

Ashlockett (talk) 12:58, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

 Not done: The template you used is for requesting edits to semi-protected pages. For conflict of interest requests, please use {{Edit COI}}. GearsDatapack (talk) 15:21, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Update infobox, lead, and financial history

I am editing on behalf of The Access Group as a representative of Babel. I will abide by Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines and submit changes via the Talk page rather than editing the article directly.

I am writing to propose updates to this article to correct outdated financial figures and add missing history.

I request that the current Infobox, Lead section (the text before the Table of Contents), and History section be removed and replaced with the Proposed Text below.

Reason for change: The current article displays outdated 2022 financial data (£618m revenue) and lacks significant coverage of the company's 2022 valuation. The proposed text updates the figures to 2025 (sourced to the Annual Report) and adds the £9.2bn valuation sourced to independent secondary sources (Sky News, The Times), which addresses the article's current "unclear notability" tag.

Proposed text

The Access Group

Industry	Business Software
Founded	1991
Area served	Europe, APAC, USA
Products	Access Evo, Accounting, CRM, HR and Payroll, Operations, Learning
Revenue	£1.16bn
Number of employees	9,732
Website	theaccessgroup.com

The Access Group is a UK-headquartered provider of business Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products, primarily serving small and mid-sized organisations across commercial and non-profit sectors. The company, founded in 1991, has its HQ in Loughborough, England. It operates internationally, serving customers across Europe, the USA, and the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

As of 2025, The Access Group reported an annual revenue of £1.16 billion, employed 9,732 people and served 160,000 commercial, public sector and not-for-profit customers.

Corporate History and Finance

The Access Group began a major expansion strategy following a management buy-out in 2011, characterised by a "buy-and-build" strategy involving numerous acquisitions. By September 2021, the company had reported 16 consecutive years of profitable growth.

In May and June 2022, The Access Group secured substantial investment from its principal shareholders, Hg and TA Associates, alongside a stake sale to the Singapore Government Investment Corporation (GIC). This transaction valued the company at £9.2 billion. Analysts noted that at this valuation, the company would have been ranked approximately 55th in the FTSE 100 had it been a public constituent. Ashlockett (talk) 12:51, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Ashlockett (talk) 12:51, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

A response has not yet been received for this question.

Reply 20-MAY-2026

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Regards,  Spintendo  08:41, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

I am reopening this edit request as I am still seeking an independent review of my proposed changes. As suggested by the closing editor, I am reaching out to relevant WikiProjects to request assistance from the community.

~~~~ Ashlockett (talk) 14:45, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

@Ashlockett: I am responding to the message you left on my talk page. Two comments:

a) The request is unclear, in that you speak of removing the history section (there is none). Do you mean replacing 100% of the content now on the page with the proposed lede, infobox, and history/finance section?

b) These proposed sources certainly look more reliable that what's currently on the page, so that's for the good.

The notability tag on the page will need to be reviewed against the relevant criteria. See WP:ORGCRITE for some detailed discussion of how the sources are assessed. In particular, a reviewer will need to spend the time to do the equivalent of the table shown there, after reading the sources (The Times is paywalled, which is unfortunate as it is an important source). Can you find any coverage in significant international media (outside the UK)? But that's a separate matter from simply updating the page. Fiske (talk) 20:06, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback @Fiske. To make it more clear, I am looking to remove:

The Access Group is a business software company headquartered in Loughborough, England. It was founded in 1991, and currently has more than 9,500 employees. It provides business management software to over 150,000 organisations across the UK, Ireland, US and Asia Pacific. Turnover was over £1.15 billion in the year to June 2025 - a year in which it completed 8 acquisitions.

To be replaced with

=== Proposed Draft ===

{{Infobox company

| name = The Access Group

| industry = Business Software

| founded = 1991

| headquarters = Loughborough, UK

| area_served = Europe, APAC, USA

| products = Access Evo, Accounting, CRM, HR and Payroll, Operations, Learning

| revenue = £1.16bn

| valuation = £9.2 billion

}}

The Access Group is a UK-headquartered provider of business Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products, primarily serving small and mid-sized organisations across commercial and non-profit sectors. The company, founded in 1991, has its HQ in Loughborough, England. It operates internationally, serving customers across Europe, the USA, and the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

As of 2025, The Access Group reported an annual revenue of £1.16 billion, employed 9,732 people and served 160,000 commercial, public sector and not-for-profit customers.

=== Corporate History and Finance ===

The Access Group began a major expansion strategy following a management buy-out in 2011, characterised by a "buy-and-build" strategy involving numerous acquisitions. By September 2021, the company had reported 16 consecutive years of profitable growth.

In May and June 2022, The Access Group secured substantial investment from its principal shareholders, Hg and TA Associates, alongside a stake sale to the Singapore Government Investment Corporation (GIC). This transaction valued the company at £9.2 billion.

| num_employees = 9,732 Analysts noted that at this valuation, the company would have been ranked approximately 55th in the FTSE 100 had it been a public constituent.

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The rest of the article can remain the same, although the intention is to provide further edits to improve the accuracy and ensure it is current. As a UK company, the main news articles come from the UK: Sky and The Times. I understand these will need to be assessed against WP:ORGCRITE.

Does this make the proposed edit more clear? Thank you for your help and guidance. Ash

Ashlockett (talk) 14:37, 17 June 2026 (UTC) Ashlockett (talk) 14:37, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

@Ashlockett: - I'm still confused. The "rest of the article" concludes with a paragraph about Hg and TA which is redundant with the proposed addition.

My suggestion would be to drop all the minor details about successive acquisitions in the existing article, since that's basically reporting on quarterly progress (especially anything sourced to news-wire / press-release sources). The article should be of broad interest, in the sense of an encylopedia.

Partly done I have changed the lede to your text (replacing the one paragraph by two paragraphs)

I have also made the deletions and additions to infobox (but clarify, did you mean to eliminate the logo from the infobox? I left it for now.)

I have not tried to go beyond that, but perhaps you can clarify your aims. Fiske (talk) 15:39, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

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