The WPP-owned consultancy business snaps up a stake in GME.FZ, a Dubai-based consultancy company it has worked with as a franchise partner since 2007.

Kantar Retail, a consultancy business owned by UK-based communications group WPP, has bought  a stake in GME.FZ, a Dubai-based consultancy company.

GME.FZ employs 16 people and its clients include Arla, BP, Heineken, J&J and Samsung, WPP said in a statement.

GME had been Kantar Retail’s franchise partner in Dubai since 2007 and it has becomes a full member of Kantar Retail’s network, WPP said.

GME had revenues at the end of 2011 of about AED9.5m ($2.6m), with about AED2.6m in…