里德國際公司成立於1894年英國,創始人是Albert E. Reed,從新聞用紙製造商起家。公司原以創始人Albert Reed為名,1903年Albert Reed & Co.公開發行,1970後年陸續易名為Reed International Ltd(1970),Reed International PLC(1982),到現在的Reed Elsevier PLC(2002) 。
愛思唯爾公司 1951年Elsevier NV出版公司成立
出版物
《細胞》(雜誌)(Cell)
《柳葉刀》醫學期刊|(The Lancet)或譯《刺胳針》
荷蘭《醫學文摘》(Excerpta Medica Database)
《Tetrahedron Letters》
《新科學人》(New Scientist)
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Academic Press
Butterworth Heinemann
Cahners Business Information
Cahners Travel Group
Churchill Livingstone
Elsevier Business Information
Elsevier Opleidingen
Elsevier Science
Les Editions du Juris-Classeur
LexisNexis
Reed Business Information
Reed Educational & Professional Publishing
Reed Exhibition Companies
Reed Technology and Information Services
Springhouse Corporation
Staempfli Verlag
Martindale-Hubbell
Mosby
Pan European Publishing Company
W. B. Saunders
Reed Elsevier
Reed Elsevier has a proud heritage stretching back to the late 19th century and to the pioneering work of two industrialists, one English, one Dutch.
Albert E Reed laid part of the foundations of what is today Reed Elsevier when he set up a newsprint manufacturing plant in England in 1894. His business became a public company under his own name in 1903
It was not until 1970 that the company was renamed Reed International Limited. It expanded through merger and acquisitions and by producing industrial magazines through its subsidiary IPC Business Press Ltd and consumer magazines through IPC Magazines Ltd. In 1982 the name changed again to Reed International PLC and, in 2002, to Reed Elsevier PLC.
Other foundations for the group were laid in 1880, when Jacobus George Robbers set up a publishing company in Rotterdam. He called it Elsevier after a 16th Century family of booksellers and printers who had, among other things, published the works of the Dutch philosopher, Erasmus.
In 1951, Elsevier Press Inc was set up in the US. Some ten years later offices had been opened in New York and London. The rapid growth continued in the 1970s and by the end of that decade the company had been renamed Elsevier Scientific Publishers. Other acquisitions and mergers continued this growth, including the purchase of the UK’s Pergamon Press in 1991, two years before the merger that created Reed Elsevier.
It has three target markets – Science and Medical(20.59 and 21.45 billion$, ), Legal and Risk Management(15.79 billion$, ), and Business publishing( 21.99billion$, ).
The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges
Thomson Reuturs:In reviewing the history of Thomson we can find that It expanded through merger and acquisitions , and merger is the basic way to realize its various businesses
2001
· Thomson acquires NewsEdge Corporation, a global provider of real-time news and information.
· Thomson acquires select higher education and corporate training businesses of Harcourt General.
· Thomson acquires FindLaw, the leader in free online legal information and services.
· The Globe and Mail becomes part of Bell Globemedia, a Canadian multimedia company, in which The Thomson Corporation holds a 20% ownership position.
· 2003
· Thomson sells print-based healthcare magazines.
· Thomson acquires Elite Information Group, a leading provider of integrated practice and financial management applications for legal and professional services markets
· Thomson sells its 20% interest in Bell Globemedia Inc. for $279 million to The Woodbridge Company Limited. The sale of Bell Globemedia, including the Corporation's interest in The Globe and Mail, is the culmination of the Thomson strategy to exit the newspaper business undertaken in February 2000.
· Reuters launches Reuters Knowledge opening up a new market on the buy-side of the financial services industry
· 2004
· Thomson acquires Information Holdings Inc., a provider of intellectual property and regulatory information for the scientific, legal, and corporate markets to further advance its capability to develop pharmaceutical and intellectual property solutions.
· Thomson acquires TradeWeb, a fast-growing and leading online global trading platform for fixed-income securities.
· Thomson sells Thomson Media group, comprised of leading print-based information products, to Investcorp.
· Thomson acquires CCBN, a provider of web-based solutions for the investment community, to further expand its offerings for the corporate communications market.
· Thomson sells DBM (Drake Beam Morin), which was acquired along with other Harcourt assets in 2001, to Compass Partners International Limited.
· 2005
· Thomson Financial partnered with Merrill Lynch to complete the rollout of more than 23,000 workstations across more than 550 Merrill Lynch offices.
· Thomson acquires Global Securities Information, Inc., a leading provider of online securities and securities-related information and research services.
· Thomson acquires Tax Partners®, LLC, the nation's largest sales and use tax compliance service firm enabling Thomson to offer end-to-end sales and use tax solutions.
· Thomson introduces the launch of Thomson Pharma bringing an indispensable information solution to the workflow of the drug discovery and development process.
· Reuters transfers its London headquarters from Fleet Street to Canary Wharf. All London employees, including editorial, are brought into one building.
· 2006
· Kenneth R. Thomson, former chairman of the Board of The Thomson Corporation, dies at the age of 82.
· Thomson Healthcare acquires Solucient, a leading healthcare information provider of data and advanced analytics that hospitals and health systems use to improve performance and lower costs.
· Thomson Scientific acquires Scholar One, web-based workflow solution for authoring, evaluating and publishing research to more than two million users.
· Thomson Financial acquires Quantitative Analytics, Inc., a leading provider of database integration and analysis solutions to the financial services industry.
· Thomson Healthcare acquires MercuryMD, Inc., the leading provider of mobile information systems serving the healthcare market.
· Reuters launches the first news bureau in the virtual world of Second Life.
· Reuters launches two products that allow its news output to be "read" by machines for the purposes of automated trading for the first time.
· 2007
· The Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group PLC announce that they are in discussions for the combination of their two businesses.
· Thomson completes sale of higher education, careers and library reference assets of Thomson Learning on July 5.
· 2008
· The Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group PLC combine to form Thomson Reuters.
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