[1] Veda was subsequently sold to the American multinational consumer credit reporting agency Equifax in February 2016.
[1] James Stewart resigned from ReachTEL in 2018, and subsequently acquired a third share in the market research company UComms, co-owned by union bosses Sally McManus, secretary of the ACTU, and Michael O'Connor, national secretary of the CFMMEU, both non-beneficiary shareholders of the company on behalf of their unions.
Although opinion polls were often recorded as "uComms/ReachTEL" opinion polls, and UComms' logo formerly included the phrase "Powered by ReachTEL", the only relationship is the use of ReachTEL's data[2] and the use of its original robo-polling and SMS technology.
[1][3] ReachTEL is wholly owned by Equifax and is not affiliated to any other group or interests.
[4] Along with Newspoll, Roy Morgan, Essential, YouGov and Ipsos Australia, it conducts regular opinion polling for Australian politics.