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RELX

December 28, 2022

For the employment agency, see Reed (company).

RELX plc (pronounced "Rel-ex") is a British[2] multinational information and analytics company headquartered in London, England. Its businesses provide scientific, technical and medical information and analytics; legal information and analytics; decision-making tools; and organise exhibitions. It operates in 40 countries and serves customers in over 180 nations.[3] It was previously known as Reed Elsevier, and came into being in 1993 as a result of the merger of Reed International, a British trade book and magazine publisher, and Elsevier, a Netherlands-based scientific publisher.

RELX plc
TypePublic limited company
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IndustryInformation and analytics
Predecessor
FoundedAugust 1993; 29 years ago (1993-08)
(by merger)
HeadquartersLondon, England, UK
Key people
ProductsInformation and data analytics, academic and business publishing, exhibitions
Revenue £7.244 billion (2021)[1]
£1.884 billion (2021)[1]
£1.471 billion (2021)[1]
Total assets £13,858 billion (2021)[1]
Total equity £3.224 billion (2021)[1]
Number of employees
 33,500 (2021)[1]
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.relx.com

The company is publicly listed, with shares traded on the London Stock Exchange, Amsterdam Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbols: London: REL, Amsterdam: REN, New York: RELX). The company is one of the constituents of the FTSE 100 Index, Financial Times Global 500 and Euronext 100 Index.

History

The company, which was previously known as Reed Elsevier, came into being in 1993, as a result of the merger of Reed International, a British trade book and magazine publisher, and Elsevier, a Netherlands-based scientific publisher.[4] The company re-branded itself as RELX in February 2015.[5]

Reed International

In 1895, Albert E. Reed established a newsprint manufacturing operation at Tovil Mill near Maidstone, Kent.[6] The Reed family were Methodists and encouraged good working conditions for their staff in the then-dangerous print trade.[7]

In 1965, Reed Group, as it was then known, became a conglomerate, creating its Decorative Products Division with the purchase of Crown Paints, Polycell and Sanderson's wallpaper and DIY decorating interests.[8]

In 1970, Reed Group merged with the International Publishing Corporation and the company name was changed to Reed International Limited.[6] The company continued to grow by merging with other publishers and produced high quality trade journals as IPC Business Press Ltd and women's and other consumer magazines as IPC magazines Ltd.[6]

In 1985 the company decided to rationalise its operations, focusing on publishing and selling off its other interests. Sanderson was sold to WestPoint Pepperell, Inc. of Georgia, United States, that year,[8] while Crown Paint and Polycell were sold to Williams Holdings in 1987.[9] The company's paper and packaging production operations were bundled together to form Reedpack and sold to private equity firm Cinven in 1988.[10]

 
Amsterdam headquarters of Elsevier

Elsevier NV

In 1880, Jacobus George Robbers started a publishing company called NV Uitgeversmaatschappij Elsevier (Elsevier Publishing Company NV) to publish literary classics and the encyclopedia Winkler Prins.[6] Robbers named the company after the old Dutch printers family Elzevir,[6] which, for example, published the works of Erasmus in 1587. Elsevier NV originally was based in Rotterdam but moved to Amsterdam in the late 1880s.[6]

Up to the 1930s, Elsevier remained a small family-owned publisher, with no more than ten employees. After the war it launched the weekly Elsevier magazine, which turned out to be very profitable. A rapid expansion followed. Elsevier Press Inc. started in 1951 in Houston, Texas, USA, and in 1962 publishing offices were opened in London and New York. Multiple mergers in the 1970s led to name changes, settling at "Elsevier Scientific Publishers" in 1979. In 1991, two years before the merger with Reed, Elsevier acquired Pergamon Press in the UK.[11]

Cahners Publishing

Cahners Publishing, founded by Norman Cahners, was the largest U.S. publisher of trade[12] or business magazines as of his death in 1986. Reed Elsevier acquired the company in 1977.[13]

Reed Elsevier and RELX

Significant acquisitions

Division or subsidiary of RELX Date Acquisition Value
Cahners Publishing 1986-09 Technical Publishing Inc, a publisher of industrial, medical and technology trade magazines, from Dun & Bradstreet $250 million[14]
Reed Elsevier 1993-08 Official Airline Guides Inc, a publisher of airline schedules $425 million[15]
Reed Elsevier 1994-10 LexisNexis, an on-line information business $1.5 billion[16]
Reed Elsevier 1997-03 MDL Information Systems Inc, a US software systems and information database developer $320M[17]
Reed Elsevier 1997-06 Chilton Business Group, a US business information publishing company $447M[18]
Reed Elsevier 1998-04 Matthew Bender & Company Inc, a US publisher of legal information $1.65bn[19]
Reed Elsevier 2000-10 Harcourt, an education publishing business $4.5bn plus debt[20]
LexisNexis 2004-07 Seisint of Boca Raton, Florida, which provided the company with access to HPCC Systems for the first time $775M[21]
Reed Elsevier 2005-05 Medimedia, a medical publisher whose imprints included Medicine Publishing and Masson $270M[22]
Reed Elsevier 2008-02 Choicepoint, which had been a spinoff of Equifax's Insurance Services Group in August 1997. The acquisition was completed in September 2008. $4.1bn[23][24]
Reed Business Information 2011-06 Ascend, a London-based civil aviation data analytics company[25] Undisclosed
Reed Elsevier 2011-11 US online-data business Accuity Holdings Inc. from investment firm Investcorp £343M ($530.1M)[26]
LexisNexis Legal & Professional 2012-03 Law360, a US-based online provider of legal information and analysis[27] Undisclosed
Elsevier 2013-04 Mendeley, a London-based desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online[28] Undisclosed but up to $100M
LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2013-09 Mapflow, a Dublin-based group that helps insurance companies assess geographic risk, in particular in relation to flooding[29] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2014-04 Tracesmart, a UK-based provider of tracing, identity verification, fraud prevention and anti-money laundering software[30] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2014-05 Wunelli, a telematics data business which uses driving data for insurers, enabling them to reduce risk exposure and deliver discounts to safer drivers[31] £25m
Accuity 2014-09 Fircosoft, a Paris-based anti-money laundering company[32] €150M
LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2014-11 Health Market Science (HMS), a supplier of high quality data about US healthcare professionals[33] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2015-01 BAIR Analytics, a US-based law enforcement data company[34] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Legal & Professional 2015-07 MLex, a media organization providing exclusive analysis and commentary on regulatory risk[35] Undisclosed
Reed Business Information 2015-10 Adaptris, a fast-growing supply chain integration business[36] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Legal & Professional 2015-11 Lex Machina, a US-based online provider of legal analytics[37] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2016-07 Insurance Initiatives, Ltd. (IIL), a business which provides a data distribution platform that extracts, hosts and processes large quantities of data to deliver information predominantly into the point-of-quote in the UK's Property & Casualty Insurance industry.[38] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Legal & Professional 2017-06 Ravel Law, a San Francisco-based legal analytics company[39] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2018-01 ThreatMetrix, one of the largest repositories of online digital identities in the world £580M ($830M)[40]
Reed Exhibitions 2018-02 The Gamer Network of video game journalism websites[41] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2020-01 ID Analytics [42] $375m
LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2020-02 Emailage[43] $480m
Elsevier 2020-08 Scibite[44] £65m

Significant divestments

In February 1997, Reed Elsevier divested its trade publishing group (including Heinemann, Methuen, Secker & Warburg, Sinclair-Stevenson, Mandarin, Minerva and Cedar) to Random House.[45] In 1998, Reed Elsevier sold the children's divisions of Heinemann, Methuen, Hamlyn and Mammoth to the Egmont Group.[46]

In February 2007, the company announced its intention to sell Harcourt, its educational publishing division.[47] On 4 May 2007 Pearson, the international education and information company, announced that it had agreed to acquire Harcourt Assessment and Harcourt Education International from Reed Elsevier for $950m in cash.[48] In July 2007, Reed Elsevier announced its agreement to sell the remaining Harcourt Education business, including international imprint Heinemann, to Houghton Mifflin for $4 billion in cash and stock.[49]

Between 2006 and 2019, in 65 separate deals, the company systematically sold its 300 print, business to business magazine titles, reducing the proportion of print revenues from 51% to 9%.[50] Advertising, which had been the largest source of revenues when RELX was founded, represented just 1% of sales in 2018.[51]

In July 2009, Reed Elsevier announced its intention to sell most of its North American trade publications, including Publishers Weekly, Broadcasting & Cable, and Multichannel News, although it planned to retain Variety.[52]

In April 2010, Reed Elsevier announced that it had sold 21 US magazines to other owners in recent months, and that an additional 23 US trade magazines, including Restaurants & Institutions, Hotels, and Trade Show Week would cease publication. The closures were mostly due to the weak economy including an advertising slump.[53]

Variety, the company's last remaining North American title, was sold in October 2012.[54]

In 2014, Reed Business Information sold BuyerZone, an online marketplace; emedia, an American provider of research for IT buyers and vendors; and a majority stake in Reed Construction Data, a provider of construction data.[55][56][57]

In 2016, RELX sold Elsevier Weekly and BeleggersBelangen in the Netherlands.[58]

In 2017 the company sold New Scientist magazine.[59]

In January 2019, RBI sold its Dutch agricultural media and selected international agricultural media portfolio (including Poultry World) to Doorakkeren BV.[60]

In August 2019, Flight International and FlightGlobal were sold to DVV Media Group.[61]

In December 2019, RBI announced plans to sell the Farmers Weekly magazine title, website and related platforms, events and awards to MA Agriculture Limited, part of the Mark Allen Group.[62]

Operations and market segments

Scientific, Technical & Medical

RELX's Scientific, Technical & Medical business provides information, analytics and tools that help investors make decisions that improve scientific and healthcare outcomes. It operates under the name of Elsevier:

ScienceDirect, an online database of primary research, contains 13 million documents.[63]

Scopus is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles. It contains more than 50 million items in more 20,000 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide.[64]

Mendeley is a desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online.[65]

Elsevier is the world's largest publisher of academic articles. It publishes 420,000 articles a year in about 2,500 journals.[3] Its best-known titles are The Lancet and Cell. In 1995, Forbes magazine (wrongly) predicted Elsevier would be "the first victim of the internet" as it was disrupted and disintermediated by the World Wide Web.[66]

Risk Solutions Group

Risk Solutions Group provide decision-making tools which help banks spot money launderers and insurance companies weed out fraudulent claims.[67]

The business claims to have saved the state of Florida more than $60 million a year by preventing benefit fraud.[68]

Accuity Inc.

Accuity provides financial crime compliance software[69] which allows institutions to comply with sanctions and anti-money laundering compliance programmes.[70] It offers Know Your Customer, KYC, online subscription-based data and software for the financial services industry.[71] The company's services include helping banks and financial institutions screen for high risk customers and transactions,[72] and providing databases such as Bankers Almanac which allows clients to find and validate bank payment routing data.[70] Accuity serves financial services clients worldwide.[71]

Cirium

Cirium (previously known as FlightGlobal) provides data and aviation analytics products to the aviation, finance and travel industries.[73]

Legal

RELX's legal business operates under the LexisNexis brand. Many of LexisNexis' brands date back to the nineteenth century or earlier. These include Butterworths and Tolley in the UK and JurisClasseur in France.[74] In 2019, 85% of its revenues were electronic. The LexisNexis legal and news database contains 119bn documents and records.[75]

Exhibitions

RELX's exhibitions business is called Reed Exhibitions. It is the world's largest exhibitions company, running 500 shows for 140,000 exhibitors and 7m visitors.[76][77]

Governance

As of 2021, the board of directors consisted of:[78]

  • Chief Executive: Erik Engström
  • Chair: Sir Anthony Habgood
  • Chief Financial Officer: Nick Luff
  • Non-executive directors:
    • Wolfhart Hauser
    • Robert MacLeod
    • Charlotte Hogg
    • June Felix
    • Marike van Lier Lels
    • Linda Sanford
    • Andrew Sukawaty
    • Suzanne Wood

In 2019, Harvard Business Review ranked Erik Engström the world's 11th best performing CEO.[79]

In August 2020, RELX announced Sir Anthony Habgood would retire as Chair, to be replaced by Paul Walker in the first half of 2021.[80]

Corporate affairs

Corporate strategy

From 2011 to 2014, the average annual value of disposals was about $300m.[32] The predictability of the company's results in recent years has led to a re-rating of the shares.[81][82][83]

Financial performance

RELX Combined[3] 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Revenue (£m) 5,166 4,509 4,584 5,334 6,071 6,055 6,002 6,116 6,035 5,773 5,971 6,895 7,355 7,492 7,874 7,110
Adjusted operating profit (£m) 1,142 1,081 1,137 1,379 1,570 1,555 1,626 1,713 1,749 1,739 1,822 2,114 2,284 2,346 2,491 2,076
Adjusted EPS (p) 31.5p 33.6p 35.9p 44.6p 45.9p 43.4p 46.7p 50.1p 54.0p 56.3p 60.5p 72.2p 81.0p 84.7p 93.0p 80.1p

Social responsibility

The RELX Environmental Challenge awards grants to projects advancing access to safe water and sanitation.[84]

In 2019, Mike Walsh, CEO of LexisNexis, was honoured by the UN Foundation with a Global Leadership award for the company's work in advancing the Rule of Law - recognizing the company's commitment to strengthening equality under law, transparency of law, independent judiciaries and accessible legal remedy.[85]

The Elsevier Foundation supports libraries in developing countries, women scientists and nursing facilities.[86] In 2016 it committed $1m a year, for 3 years, to programmes encouraging diversity in science, technology and medicine and promoting science research in developing countries.[87]

Programmes operated by LexisNexis Legal & Professional include:

  • With the Atlantic Council, launching the first draft of the Global Rule of Law Business Principles which will help businesses, law firms and NGOs promote and uphold the rule of law.[88]
  • With the International Bar Association, launching an application called eyeWitness to Atrocities, designed to capture GPS coordinates, date and time stamps, sensory and movement data, and the location of nearby objects such as Wi-Fi networks. The technology also creates a secure chain of custody to help verify that the images and video has not been edited or digitally manipulated. The goal is to create content that can be used in a court of law to prosecute perpetrators of atrocities and human rights abuses.[89]

Programmes operated by LexisNexis Risk Solutions include:

  • The ADAM (Automated Delivery of Alerts on Missing Children) programme in the US, developed by employees in 2000, which assists in the recovery of missing children through a system of targeted alerts.[90] As of 2017 the programme has helped trace 177 missing children.[3]
  • Social Media Monitor, which assists law enforcement officials in investigating serious crimes such as drug dealing and human trafficking.[91]

Controversy

Further information: Elsevier § Criticism and controversies

Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows

Main article: Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows
 
Dryden Mill
 
The Wabigoon river as it exits Wabigoon Lake

The mercury contamination of the Wabigoon River in Ontario Canada by a corporate subsidiary between 1962 and 1970 was "one of the worst cases of environmental poisoning in Canadian history."[92][93] Reed sold the Dryden Mill to Great Lakes Forest Products in 1980.[93] As of 2017 Grassy Narrows First Nation chief Simon Fobister stated that the river remained highly contaminated.[94]

Boycott

Reed Elsevier has been criticised for the high prices of its journals and services, especially those published by Elsevier. It has also supported SOPA, PIPA and the Research Works Act, although it no longer supports the last. Because of this, members of the scientific community have boycotted Elsevier journals. In January 2012, the boycott gained an online pledge and petition (The Cost of Knowledge) initiated by mathematician and Fields medalist Sir Timothy Gowers.[95] The movement has received support from noted science bloggers, such as biologist Jonathan Eisen.[96] Between 2012 and November 2015, about 15,391 scientists signed The Cost of Knowledge boycott. In 2016, Elsevier received 1.5 million article submissions.[97]

2019 UC system negotiations

On 28 February 2019 following long negotiations, the University of California announced it would be terminating all subscriptions with Elsevier.[98]

Privacy

As a data broker Reed Elsevier collected, used, and sold data on millions of consumers.[99] In 2005, a security breach occurred through a recently purchased subsidiary, Seisint, which allowed identity thieves to steal the records of at least 316,000 people.[100] The database contained names, current and prior addresses, dates of birth, drivers license numbers and Social Security numbers, among other data obtained from credit reporting agencies and other sources. In 2008 the company settled an action taken against it by the Federal Trade Commission for multiple failures of security practice in how the data was stored and protected. The settlement required Reed Elsevier and Seisint to establish and maintain a comprehensive security program to protect nonpublic personal information.[100]

Defence exhibitions

Between 2005 and 2007, members of the medical and scientific communities, which purchase and use many journals published by Reed Elsevier, agitated for the company to cut its links to the arms trade. Two UK academics, Tom Stafford of Sheffield University and Nick Gill, launched petitions calling for it to stop organising arms fairs.[101] A subsidiary, Spearhead, organised defence shows, including an event where it was reported that cluster bombs and extremely powerful riot control equipment were offered for sale.[102][103] In February 2007 Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal, published an editorial in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine arguing that Reed Elsevier's involvement in both the arms trade and medical publishing constituted a conflict of interest.[104] Subsequently, in June the company announced that they would be exiting the defence exhibition business during the second half of the year.[105]

Collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

In November 2019, legal scholars and human rights activists called on RELX to cease work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement because their product LexisNexis directly contributes to the deportation of illegal immigrants.[106]

Support for fossil fuel expansion

An article in The Guardian in February 2022 revealed that Elsevier products and services support expanding the production aims of the fossil fuel industry. The company disclosed that it is "not prepared to draw a line between the transition away from fossil fuels and the expansion of oil and gas extraction."[107]

See also

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Sources

General references
  • Guardian Unlimited, "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre about Open Access and DSEI arms trade
  • historical overview
  • "Double Dutch No Longer"—in-depth article about the company from 2002 (Forbes.com)
  • "Duncan Palmer Becomes Reed Elsevier CFO"—Online article about the new CFO of Reed Elsevier, accessed 09/17/2012

External links

  • Business data for RELX PLC:
    • Bloomberg
    • Google
    • SEC filings
    • Yahoo!
  • Business data for RELX NV:
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    • SEC filings
    • Yahoo!

December 28, 2022
relx, employment, agency, reed, company, pronounced, british, multinational, information, analytics, company, headquartered, london, england, businesses, provide, scientific, technical, medical, information, analytics, legal, information, analytics, decision, . For the employment agency see Reed company RELX plc pronounced Rel ex is a British 2 multinational information and analytics company headquartered in London England Its businesses provide scientific technical and medical information and analytics legal information and analytics decision making tools and organise exhibitions It operates in 40 countries and serves customers in over 180 nations 3 It was previously known as Reed Elsevier and came into being in 1993 as a result of the merger of Reed International a British trade book and magazine publisher and Elsevier a Netherlands based scientific publisher RELX plcTypePublic limited companyTraded asLSE RELEuronext Amsterdam RENNYSE RELXFTSE 100 ComponentAEX componentISINGB00B2B0DG97IndustryInformation and analyticsPredecessorElsevierReed International PLCFoundedAugust 1993 29 years ago 1993 08 by merger HeadquartersLondon England UKKey peoplePaul Walker chairperson Erik Engstrom CEO Nick Luff CFO ProductsInformation and data analytics academic and business publishing exhibitionsRevenue 7 244 billion 2021 1 Operating income 1 884 billion 2021 1 Net income 1 471 billion 2021 1 Total assets 13 858 billion 2021 1 Total equity 3 224 billion 2021 1 Number of employees33 500 2021 1 SubsidiariesElsevierLexisNexisReed ExhibitionsReed Business InformationLexisNexis Risk SolutionsWebsitewww wbr relx wbr comThe company is publicly listed with shares traded on the London Stock Exchange Amsterdam Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange ticker symbols London REL Amsterdam REN New York RELX The company is one of the constituents of the FTSE 100 Index Financial Times Global 500 and Euronext 100 Index Contents 1 History 1 1 Reed International 1 2 Elsevier NV 1 3 Cahners Publishing 1 4 Reed Elsevier and RELX 1 4 1 Significant acquisitions 1 4 2 Significant divestments 2 Operations and market segments 2 1 Scientific Technical amp Medical 2 2 Risk Solutions Group 2 2 1 Accuity Inc 2 2 2 Cirium 2 3 Legal 2 4 Exhibitions 3 Governance 4 Corporate affairs 4 1 Corporate strategy 4 2 Financial performance 4 3 Social responsibility 5 Controversy 5 1 Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows 5 2 Boycott 5 3 2019 UC system negotiations 5 4 Privacy 5 5 Defence exhibitions 5 6 Collaboration with U S Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE 5 7 Support for fossil fuel expansion 6 See also 7 References 7 1 Citations 7 2 Sources 8 External linksHistory EditThe company which was previously known as Reed Elsevier came into being in 1993 as a result of the merger of Reed International a British trade book and magazine publisher and Elsevier a Netherlands based scientific publisher 4 The company re branded itself as RELX in February 2015 5 Reed International Edit In 1895 Albert E Reed established a newsprint manufacturing operation at Tovil Mill near Maidstone Kent 6 The Reed family were Methodists and encouraged good working conditions for their staff in the then dangerous print trade 7 In 1965 Reed Group as it was then known became a conglomerate creating its Decorative Products Division with the purchase of Crown Paints Polycell and Sanderson s wallpaper and DIY decorating interests 8 In 1970 Reed Group merged with the International Publishing Corporation and the company name was changed to Reed International Limited 6 The company continued to grow by merging with other publishers and produced high quality trade journals as IPC Business Press Ltd and women s and other consumer magazines as IPC magazines Ltd 6 In 1985 the company decided to rationalise its operations focusing on publishing and selling off its other interests Sanderson was sold to WestPoint Pepperell Inc of Georgia United States that year 8 while Crown Paint and Polycell were sold to Williams Holdings in 1987 9 The company s paper and packaging production operations were bundled together to form Reedpack and sold to private equity firm Cinven in 1988 10 Amsterdam headquarters of Elsevier Elsevier NV Edit In 1880 Jacobus George Robbers started a publishing company called NV Uitgeversmaatschappij Elsevier Elsevier Publishing Company NV to publish literary classics and the encyclopedia Winkler Prins 6 Robbers named the company after the old Dutch printers family Elzevir 6 which for example published the works of Erasmus in 1587 Elsevier NV originally was based in Rotterdam but moved to Amsterdam in the late 1880s 6 Up to the 1930s Elsevier remained a small family owned publisher with no more than ten employees After the war it launched the weekly Elsevier magazine which turned out to be very profitable A rapid expansion followed Elsevier Press Inc started in 1951 in Houston Texas USA and in 1962 publishing offices were opened in London and New York Multiple mergers in the 1970s led to name changes settling at Elsevier Scientific Publishers in 1979 In 1991 two years before the merger with Reed Elsevier acquired Pergamon Press in the UK 11 Cahners Publishing Edit Cahners Publishing founded by Norman Cahners was the largest U S publisher of trade 12 or business magazines as of his death in 1986 Reed Elsevier acquired the company in 1977 13 Reed Elsevier and RELX Edit Significant acquisitions Edit Division or subsidiary of RELX Date Acquisition ValueCahners Publishing 1986 09 Technical Publishing Inc a publisher of industrial medical and technology trade magazines from Dun amp Bradstreet 250 million 14 Reed Elsevier 1993 08 Official Airline Guides Inc a publisher of airline schedules 425 million 15 Reed Elsevier 1994 10 LexisNexis an on line information business 1 5 billion 16 Reed Elsevier 1997 03 MDL Information Systems Inc a US software systems and information database developer 320M 17 Reed Elsevier 1997 06 Chilton Business Group a US business information publishing company 447M 18 Reed Elsevier 1998 04 Matthew Bender amp Company Inc a US publisher of legal information 1 65bn 19 Reed Elsevier 2000 10 Harcourt an education publishing business 4 5bn plus debt 20 LexisNexis 2004 07 Seisint of Boca Raton Florida which provided the company with access to HPCC Systems for the first time 775M 21 Reed Elsevier 2005 05 Medimedia a medical publisher whose imprints included Medicine Publishing and Masson 270M 22 Reed Elsevier 2008 02 Choicepoint which had been a spinoff of Equifax s Insurance Services Group in August 1997 The acquisition was completed in September 2008 4 1bn 23 24 Reed Business Information 2011 06 Ascend a London based civil aviation data analytics company 25 UndisclosedReed Elsevier 2011 11 US online data business Accuity Holdings Inc from investment firm Investcorp 343M 530 1M 26 LexisNexis Legal amp Professional 2012 03 Law360 a US based online provider of legal information and analysis 27 UndisclosedElsevier 2013 04 Mendeley a London based desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers discovering research data and collaborating online 28 Undisclosed but up to 100MLexisNexis Risk Solutions 2013 09 Mapflow a Dublin based group that helps insurance companies assess geographic risk in particular in relation to flooding 29 UndisclosedLexisNexis Risk Solutions 2014 04 Tracesmart a UK based provider of tracing identity verification fraud prevention and anti money laundering software 30 UndisclosedLexisNexis Risk Solutions 2014 05 Wunelli a telematics data business which uses driving data for insurers enabling them to reduce risk exposure and deliver discounts to safer drivers 31 25mAccuity 2014 09 Fircosoft a Paris based anti money laundering company 32 150MLexisNexis Risk Solutions 2014 11 Health Market Science HMS a supplier of high quality data about US healthcare professionals 33 UndisclosedLexisNexis Risk Solutions 2015 01 BAIR Analytics a US based law enforcement data company 34 UndisclosedLexisNexis Legal amp Professional 2015 07 MLex a media organization providing exclusive analysis and commentary on regulatory risk 35 UndisclosedReed Business Information 2015 10 Adaptris a fast growing supply chain integration business 36 UndisclosedLexisNexis Legal amp Professional 2015 11 Lex Machina a US based online provider of legal analytics 37 UndisclosedLexisNexis Risk Solutions 2016 07 Insurance Initiatives Ltd IIL a business which provides a data distribution platform that extracts hosts and processes large quantities of data to deliver information predominantly into the point of quote in the UK s Property amp Casualty Insurance industry 38 UndisclosedLexisNexis Legal amp Professional 2017 06 Ravel Law a San Francisco based legal analytics company 39 UndisclosedLexisNexis Risk Solutions 2018 01 ThreatMetrix one of the largest repositories of online digital identities in the world 580M 830M 40 Reed Exhibitions 2018 02 The Gamer Network of video game journalism websites 41 UndisclosedLexisNexis Risk Solutions 2020 01 ID Analytics 42 375mLexisNexis Risk Solutions 2020 02 Emailage 43 480mElsevier 2020 08 Scibite 44 65mSignificant divestments Edit In February 1997 Reed Elsevier divested its trade publishing group including Heinemann Methuen Secker amp Warburg Sinclair Stevenson Mandarin Minerva and Cedar to Random House 45 In 1998 Reed Elsevier sold the children s divisions of Heinemann Methuen Hamlyn and Mammoth to the Egmont Group 46 In February 2007 the company announced its intention to sell Harcourt its educational publishing division 47 On 4 May 2007 Pearson the international education and information company announced that it had agreed to acquire Harcourt Assessment and Harcourt Education International from Reed Elsevier for 950m in cash 48 In July 2007 Reed Elsevier announced its agreement to sell the remaining Harcourt Education business including international imprint Heinemann to Houghton Mifflin for 4 billion in cash and stock 49 Between 2006 and 2019 in 65 separate deals the company systematically sold its 300 print business to business magazine titles reducing the proportion of print revenues from 51 to 9 50 Advertising which had been the largest source of revenues when RELX was founded represented just 1 of sales in 2018 51 In July 2009 Reed Elsevier announced its intention to sell most of its North American trade publications including Publishers Weekly Broadcasting amp Cable and Multichannel News although it planned to retain Variety 52 In April 2010 Reed Elsevier announced that it had sold 21 US magazines to other owners in recent months and that an additional 23 US trade magazines including Restaurants amp Institutions Hotels and Trade Show Week would cease publication The closures were mostly due to the weak economy including an advertising slump 53 Variety the company s last remaining North American title was sold in October 2012 54 In 2014 Reed Business Information sold BuyerZone an online marketplace emedia an American provider of research for IT buyers and vendors and a majority stake in Reed Construction Data a provider of construction data 55 56 57 In 2016 RELX sold Elsevier Weekly and BeleggersBelangen in the Netherlands 58 In 2017 the company sold New Scientist magazine 59 In January 2019 RBI sold its Dutch agricultural media and selected international agricultural media portfolio including Poultry World to Doorakkeren BV 60 In August 2019 Flight International and FlightGlobal were sold to DVV Media Group 61 In December 2019 RBI announced plans to sell the Farmers Weekly magazine title website and related platforms events and awards to MA Agriculture Limited part of the Mark Allen Group 62 Operations and market segments EditScientific Technical amp Medical Edit RELX s Scientific Technical amp Medical business provides information analytics and tools that help investors make decisions that improve scientific and healthcare outcomes It operates under the name of Elsevier ScienceDirect an online database of primary research contains 13 million documents 63 Scopus is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles It contains more than 50 million items in more 20 000 titles from 5 000 publishers worldwide 64 Mendeley is a desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers discovering research data and collaborating online 65 Elsevier is the world s largest publisher of academic articles It publishes 420 000 articles a year in about 2 500 journals 3 Its best known titles are The Lancet and Cell In 1995 Forbes magazine wrongly predicted Elsevier would be the first victim of the internet as it was disrupted and disintermediated by the World Wide Web 66 Risk Solutions Group Edit Risk Solutions Group provide decision making tools which help banks spot money launderers and insurance companies weed out fraudulent claims 67 The business claims to have saved the state of Florida more than 60 million a year by preventing benefit fraud 68 Accuity Inc Edit Accuity provides financial crime compliance software 69 which allows institutions to comply with sanctions and anti money laundering compliance programmes 70 It offers Know Your Customer KYC online subscription based data and software for the financial services industry 71 The company s services include helping banks and financial institutions screen for high risk customers and transactions 72 and providing databases such as Bankers Almanac which allows clients to find and validate bank payment routing data 70 Accuity serves financial services clients worldwide 71 Cirium Edit Cirium previously known as FlightGlobal provides data and aviation analytics products to the aviation finance and travel industries 73 Legal Edit RELX s legal business operates under the LexisNexis brand Many of LexisNexis brands date back to the nineteenth century or earlier These include Butterworths and Tolley in the UK and JurisClasseur in France 74 In 2019 85 of its revenues were electronic The LexisNexis legal and news database contains 119bn documents and records 75 Exhibitions Edit RELX s exhibitions business is called Reed Exhibitions It is the world s largest exhibitions company running 500 shows for 140 000 exhibitors and 7m visitors 76 77 Governance EditAs of 2021 update the board of directors consisted of 78 Chief Executive Erik Engstrom Chair Sir Anthony Habgood Chief Financial Officer Nick Luff Non executive directors Wolfhart Hauser Robert MacLeod Charlotte Hogg June Felix Marike van Lier Lels Linda Sanford Andrew Sukawaty Suzanne WoodIn 2019 Harvard Business Review ranked Erik Engstrom the world s 11th best performing CEO 79 In August 2020 RELX announced Sir Anthony Habgood would retire as Chair to be replaced by Paul Walker in the first half of 2021 80 Corporate affairs EditCorporate strategy Edit From 2011 to 2014 the average annual value of disposals was about 300m 32 The predictability of the company s results in recent years has led to a re rating of the shares 81 82 83 Financial performance Edit RELX Combined 3 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020Revenue m 5 166 4 509 4 584 5 334 6 071 6 055 6 002 6 116 6 035 5 773 5 971 6 895 7 355 7 492 7 874 7 110Adjusted operating profit m 1 142 1 081 1 137 1 379 1 570 1 555 1 626 1 713 1 749 1 739 1 822 2 114 2 284 2 346 2 491 2 076Adjusted EPS p 31 5p 33 6p 35 9p 44 6p 45 9p 43 4p 46 7p 50 1p 54 0p 56 3p 60 5p 72 2p 81 0p 84 7p 93 0p 80 1pSocial responsibility Edit The RELX Environmental Challenge awards grants to projects advancing access to safe water and sanitation 84 In 2019 Mike Walsh CEO of LexisNexis was honoured by the UN Foundation with a Global Leadership award for the company s work in advancing the Rule of Law recognizing the company s commitment to strengthening equality under law transparency of law independent judiciaries and accessible legal remedy 85 The Elsevier Foundation supports libraries in developing countries women scientists and nursing facilities 86 In 2016 it committed 1m a year for 3 years to programmes encouraging diversity in science technology and medicine and promoting science research in developing countries 87 Programmes operated by LexisNexis Legal amp Professional include With the Atlantic Council launching the first draft of the Global Rule of Law Business Principles which will help businesses law firms and NGOs promote and uphold the rule of law 88 With the International Bar Association launching an application called eyeWitness to Atrocities designed to capture GPS coordinates date and time stamps sensory and movement data and the location of nearby objects such as Wi Fi networks The technology also creates a secure chain of custody to help verify that the images and video has not been edited or digitally manipulated The goal is to create content that can be used in a court of law to prosecute perpetrators of atrocities and human rights abuses 89 Programmes operated by LexisNexis Risk Solutions include The ADAM Automated Delivery of Alerts on Missing Children programme in the US developed by employees in 2000 which assists in the recovery of missing children through a system of targeted alerts 90 As of 2017 update the programme has helped trace 177 missing children 3 Social Media Monitor which assists law enforcement officials in investigating serious crimes such as drug dealing and human trafficking 91 Controversy EditFurther information Elsevier Criticism and controversies Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows Edit Main article Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows Dryden Mill The Wabigoon river as it exits Wabigoon Lake The mercury contamination of the Wabigoon River in Ontario Canada by a corporate subsidiary between 1962 and 1970 was one of the worst cases of environmental poisoning in Canadian history 92 93 Reed sold the Dryden Mill to Great Lakes Forest Products in 1980 93 As of 2017 Grassy Narrows First Nation chief Simon Fobister stated that the river remained highly contaminated 94 Boycott Edit Reed Elsevier has been criticised for the high prices of its journals and services especially those published by Elsevier It has also supported SOPA PIPA and the Research Works Act although it no longer supports the last Because of this members of the scientific community have boycotted Elsevier journals In January 2012 the boycott gained an online pledge and petition The Cost of Knowledge initiated by mathematician and Fields medalist Sir Timothy Gowers 95 The movement has received support from noted science bloggers such as biologist Jonathan Eisen 96 Between 2012 and November 2015 about 15 391 scientists signed The Cost of Knowledge boycott In 2016 Elsevier received 1 5 million article submissions 97 2019 UC system negotiations Edit On 28 February 2019 following long negotiations the University of California announced it would be terminating all subscriptions with Elsevier 98 Privacy Edit As a data broker Reed Elsevier collected used and sold data on millions of consumers 99 In 2005 a security breach occurred through a recently purchased subsidiary Seisint which allowed identity thieves to steal the records of at least 316 000 people 100 The database contained names current and prior addresses dates of birth drivers license numbers and Social Security numbers among other data obtained from credit reporting agencies and other sources In 2008 the company settled an action taken against it by the Federal Trade Commission for multiple failures of security practice in how the data was stored and protected The settlement required Reed Elsevier and Seisint to establish and maintain a comprehensive security program to protect nonpublic personal information 100 Defence exhibitions Edit Between 2005 and 2007 members of the medical and scientific communities which purchase and use many journals published by Reed Elsevier agitated for the company to cut its links to the arms trade Two UK academics Tom Stafford of Sheffield University and Nick Gill launched petitions calling for it to stop organising arms fairs 101 A subsidiary Spearhead organised defence shows including an event where it was reported that cluster bombs and extremely powerful riot control equipment were offered for sale 102 103 In February 2007 Richard Smith former editor of the British Medical Journal published an editorial in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine arguing that Reed Elsevier s involvement in both the arms trade and medical publishing constituted a conflict of interest 104 Subsequently in June the company announced that they would be exiting the defence exhibition business during the second half of the year 105 Collaboration with U S Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE Edit In November 2019 legal scholars and human rights activists called on RELX to cease work with U S Immigration and Customs Enforcement because their product LexisNexis directly contributes to the deportation of illegal immigrants 106 Support for fossil fuel expansion Edit An article in The Guardian in February 2022 revealed that Elsevier products and services support expanding the production aims of the fossil fuel industry The company disclosed that it is not prepared to draw a line between the transition away from fossil fuels and the expansion of oil and gas extraction 107 See also Edit Companies portalReferences EditCitations Edit a b c d e f Annual Results 2021 PDF RELX Retrieved 15 February 2022 RELX Forbes a b c d US SEC Form 20 F Relx Group U S Securities and Exchange Commission Retrieved 20 June 2018 Edward A Gargan 6 October 1994 Reed Elsevier Building Big Presence in the U S The New York Times Retrieved 18 February 2008 Robert Cookson Reed Elsevier to rename itself RELX Group Financial Times Archived from the original on 10 December 2022 Retrieved 23 September 2015 a b c d e f Timeline Reed Elsevier Archived from the original on 30 October 2015 Retrieved 19 September 2015 Peter Kirwan 3 March 2008 Reed Elsevier has no stomach for the tough trade business Press Gazette Retrieved 19 September 2015 a b History Sanderson Retrieved 21 March 2015 Williams Holdings gracesguide co uk Retrieved 21 March 2015 All investments Cinven Retrieved 21 March 2015 Maxwell Selling Pergamon Cornerstone of His Empire The New York Times 29 March 1991 Retrieved 18 September 2015 Tony Silber 29 March 2016 The Sale Decline and Ultimate Demise of Cahners Publishing Folio A Double Shot of Cahners Publishing Nostalgia AdWeek 7 April 2016 Dun amp Bradstreet To Sell Technical Publishing Concerns AP NEWS Retrieved 8 August 2021 Stanley Ziemba 19 August 1993 British Firm Near Deal To Acquire Airline Guides Chicago Tribune Retrieved 18 September 2015 Publisher Reed Elsevier Agrees to Buy Lexis Nexis On Line Business Los Angeles Times 5 October 1994 Retrieved 18 September 2015 Reed Elsevier Agrees to Buy Information Systems Company The New York Times 25 March 1997 Retrieved 18 September 2015 Reed Elsevier buys Chilton from ABC for US 447 million in June 1997 The Wall Street Journal 23 June 1997 Retrieved 18 September 2015 Times Mirror sheds units CNN 27 April 1998 Retrieved 18 September 2015 Reed Elsevier Thomson agree to buy Harcourt for 4 45bn plus debt The Wall Street Journal 27 October 2000 Retrieved 18 September 2015 LexisNexis To Buy Seisint For 775 Million The Washington Post 15 July 2004 Retrieved 18 September 2015 Reed Elsevier buys medical publisher 26 May 2005 Archived from the original on 10 December 2022 Retrieved 18 September 2015 Acquisition of ChoicePoint Inc completed 21 February 2008 Retrieved 7 March 2016 Equifax to spinoff ChoicePoint in August 14 July 1997 Retrieved 7 March 2016 Reed Business Information Ltd and Ascend Worldwide Group Holdings Limited 30 June 2011 Reed Business Information Acquires Ascend a Leading Provider of Data Analytics and SUTTON England June 30 2011 PRNewswire prnewswire com Retrieved 23 September 2015 Reed Elsevier to Buy Accuity The Wall Street Journal 26 September 2011 Retrieved 21 March 2015 LexisNexis Acquires Law360 LexisNexis 20 March 2012 Retrieved 19 September 2019 Reed Elsevier buys academic social network Mendeley for up to 65m The Guardian 9 April 2013 Retrieved 18 September 2015 LexisNexis Risk Solutions Acquires Mapflow RELX 16 September 2013 Retrieved 19 September 2019 Tracesmart is now a LexisNexis company LexisNexis Risk Solutions Retrieved 19 September 2019 Reed Elsevier buys Wunelli to beef up Telematics business City A M 21 May 2014 Retrieved 18 September 2015 a b Robert Cookson 29 September 2014 Reed Elsevier to buy sanctions software group FircoSoft for 150m Financial Times Archived from the original on 10 December 2022 Retrieved 23 September 2015 Adam Rubenfire 13 November 2014 LexisNexis to acquire Health Market Science Modern Healthcare Retrieved 18 September 2015 LexisNexis to buy BAIR Analytics grow in public safety sector Atlanta Business Chronicle 6 January 2015 Retrieved 23 September 2015 LexisNexis buys regulatory news wire MLex Talking Biznews 29 July 2015 Retrieved 22 March 2016 Wright Martin 29 October 2015 RBI acquires software and e solutions company Adaptris Group Limited Media Mergers Retrieved 27 October 2015 LexisNexis Acquires Premier Legal Analytics Provider Lex Machina PRWEB Retrieved 25 November 2015 LexisNexis Risk Solutions Acquires Insurance Initiatives Ltd LexisNexis Risk Solutions 20 July 2016 Retrieved 19 September 2019 Loizos Connie Venture backed Ravel Law sells to LexisNexis TechCrunch Retrieved 13 June 2017 Britain s Relx to pay 580 million pounds for digital identity group ThreatMetrix Reuters 29 January 2018 Retrieved 29 January 2018 Welsh Oli 26 February 2018 Eurogamer s parent company Gamer Network has been bought by PAX operator ReedPOP Eurogamer net Retrieved 26 February 2018 Reuters Staff 13 January 2020 Relx snaps up ID Analytics for 375 million Reuters Retrieved 18 November 2020 PYMNTS 5 February 2020 RELX Buys Anti Fraud Startup Emailage For 480M PYMNTS com Retrieved 18 November 2020 Reuters Staff 21 August 2020 Relx snaps up UK s pharma analysis group SciBite Reuters Retrieved 18 November 2020 Reed Elsevier to sell book unit to Random House The New York Times 1 February 1997 Retrieved 21 October 2018 History of the Egmont Imprints Penguin Random House Retrieved 21 October 2018 Reed Elsevier to sell education arm Reuters 15 February 2007 Retrieved 16 July 2011 Pearson acquires Harcourt Assessment and Harcourt Education International from Reed Elsevier Pearson Archived from the original on 27 September 2011 Retrieved 16 July 2011 Michael J de la Merced 17 July 2007 Houghton Mifflin to buy Harcourt The New York Times Retrieved 18 September 2015 Thomas Daniel Relx offloads Farmers Weekly to MAG Financial Times Archived from the original on 10 December 2022 Retrieved 20 November 2020 Nilsson Patricia Relx buys US fraud prevention start up Emailage for 480m Financial Times Archived from the original on 10 December 2022 Retrieved 20 November 2020 Brian Stelter Even Media About the Media Are For Sale New York Times 31 July 2009 Lorene Yue Restaurants amp Institutions magazine shutting down as Reed cuts trade titles Crain s Chicago Business 16 April 2010 Jay Penske Buys Variety Magazine From Reed Elsevier Advertising Age 9 October 2012 Retrieved 15 September 2015 InPublishing News RBI sells BuyerZone InPublishing inpublishing co uk Retrieved 23 September 2015 Martin Wright 20 August 2013 Ziff Davis Acquires emedia from RBI MediaMergers Retrieved 23 September 2015 BRIEF Reed sells majority stake in Reed Construction Data to Warburg Pincus Reuters 21 July 2014 Retrieved 23 September 2015 Reed Business divests Elsevier Weekly and BeleggersBelangen to New Skool Media De Brauw Retrieved 21 March 2017 Relx offloads New Scientist magazine to Kingston Acquisitions FT 12 April 2017 Archived from the original on 10 December 2022 Retrieved 20 April 2017 Reed Business BV announces intention to sell Dutch agriculture media portfolio to Misset Uitgeverij BV Reed Business Information Retrieved 9 October 2020 Kingsley Jones Max 19 December 2019 Powering into our eleventh decade Flightglobal Retrieved 9 April 2020 Cotton Barney 2 January 2020 MARK ALLEN GROUP TO ACQUIRE FARMERS WEEKLY Business Leader Retrieved 7 January 2020 ScienceDirect Davenport University Retrieved 21 September 2015 The dimensions of Scopus Bayerische Staats Bibliothek Retrieved 21 September 2015 Jason Fitzpatrick Mendeley Manages Your Documents on Your Desktop and in the Cloud Lifehacker Gawker Media Retrieved 23 September 2015 Elsevier leads the business the internet could not kill Financial Times Archived from the original on 10 December 2022 Retrieved 25 November 2015 RELX move into risk helps deliver record revenues Financial Times Archived from the original on 10 December 2022 Retrieved 7 April 2016 Kate Santich Florida welfare fraud Florida welfare fraud cost taxpayers 1 billion in 2012 Orlando Sentinel Retrieved 23 September 2015 Vasagar Jeevan Lockett Hudson 30 May 2017 Singapore penalises Credit Suisse over 1MDB Financial Times Archived from the original on 10 December 2022 Retrieved 24 September 2018 a b O Murchu Cynthia Hancock Melissa 1 May 2014 Reed Business Information faces scrutiny over sanctions Financial Times Archived from the original on 10 December 2022 Retrieved 24 September 2018 a b Company Overview of Accuity Inc Bloomberg Bloomberg L P Retrieved 24 September 2018 Cutter Henry 6 December 2017 The Morning Risk Report EU s Tax Blacklist May Force Compliance Changes The Wall Street Journal Retrieved 24 September 2018 FlightGlobal rebranded as Cirium Aviation News 20 February 2019 Retrieved 27 September 2019 Services offered by Butterworths Legal Publishers Scottish Law Retrieved 21 September 2015 RELX Annual Report 2019 PDF RELX Michael Corty 20 September 2010 Niche markets to boost Reed Elsevier sales Morning Star Retrieved 21 September 2015 Job Woudt Relx Group voor een kwart onderweg richting bigdatabedrijf Financiele Dagblat Retrieved 8 December 2015 Relx Group official website Retrieved 15 March 2020 The Best Performing CEOs in the World 2019 Harvard Business Review 1 November 2019 ISSN 0017 8012 Retrieved 10 December 2020 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2016 Retrieved 4 February 2016 UN Global Compact to Adopt Global Rule of Law Business Principles Atlantic Council 20 September 2013 Retrieved 23 September 2015 EyeWitness app lets smartphones report war crimes BBC News 8 June 2015 Retrieved 23 September 2015 Four Recently Recovered Missing Children Make 99 recoveries for ChoicePoint R s ADAM Program Wistv 29 January 2015 Retrieved 23 September 2015 Product Shoot Out The Top 4 Social Media Monitoring Apps for LEAs Insider Surveillance 14 July 2014 Retrieved 23 September 2015 Philibert Aline Fillion Myriam Mergler Donna 1 April 2020 Mercury exposure and premature mortality in the Grassy Narrows First Nation community a retrospective longitudinal study The Lancet Planetary Health 4 4 141 e148 doi 10 1016 S2542 5196 20 30057 7 ISSN 2542 5196 PMID 32353294 a b Fahlgreen J E J 28 June 1985 Report and Recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Northern Environment Report Toronto Ontario Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General p 440 ISBN 0 7729 0628 9 Retrieved 24 March 2021 Loriggio Paola 28 February 2017 Chief says mercury still leaking from mill near Grassy Narrows According to Chief Simon Fobister a new report suggests there is ongoing contamination from the Dryden Ont mill Retrieved 5 March 2021 Dobbs David 30 January 2012 Testify The Open Science Movement Catches Fire Wired Retrieved 2 February 2012 Jop de Vrieze 1 February 2012 Thousands of Scientists Vow to Boycott Elsevier Science Magazine Retrieved 2 February 2012 Annual Report 2016 PDF RELX Retrieved 27 February 2018 UC Office of the President 28 February 2019 UC terminates subscriptions with world s largest scientific publisher in push for open access to publicly funded research Archived from the original on 5 March 2019 A Review of the Data Broker Industry Collection Use and Sale of Consumer Data for Marketing Purposes US Senate Retrieved 21 March 2015 a b Agency Announces Settlement of Separate Actions Against Retailer TJX and Data Brokers Reed Elsevier and Seisint for Failing to Provide Adequate Security for Consumers Data Federal Trade Commission 27 March 2008 Retrieved 21 March 2015 Elsevier petition idiolect org uk Retrieved 21 March 2015 Shah Saeed 14 September 2005 Cluster bombs on offer at arms fair despite sales ban The Independent UK Retrieved 21 February 2007 Norton Taylor Richard 16 September 2005 Banned stun guns and leg irons advertised at arms fair The Guardian UK Retrieved 21 February 2007 Smith Richard 20 February 2007 Lancet publishers condemned over promotion of arms Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Retrieved 18 March 2007 Reed Elsevier says to exit defence industry shows Reuters 1 June 2007 Retrieved 18 September 2015 Currier Cora 14 November 2019 Lawyers and Scholars to LexisNexis Thomson Reuters Stop Helping ICE Deport People The Intercept Revealed leading climate research publisher helps fuel oil and gas drilling 24 February 2022 Retrieved 1 October 2022 Sources Edit General referencesGuardian Unlimited Bad Science by Ben Goldacre about Open Access and DSEI arms trade ketupa net media profile Reed Elsevier historical overview Double Dutch No Longer in depth article about the company from 2002 Forbes com Duncan Palmer Becomes Reed Elsevier CFO Online article about the new CFO of Reed Elsevier accessed 09 17 2012External links EditBusiness data for RELX PLC BloombergGoogleSEC filingsYahoo Business data for RELX NV BloombergGoogleSEC filingsYahoo Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title RELX amp oldid 1127960473 Operations and market segments, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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