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RELX plc
Company typePublic
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IndustryInformation and analytics
Predecessor
FoundedAugust 1993;30 years ago(1993-08)
(by merger)
HeadquartersLondon,England, UK
Key people
ProductsInformation and data analytics,academicand business publishing, exhibitions
RevenueIncrease£9.161 billion (2023)[1]
Increase£2.682 billion (2023)[1]
Increase£1.788 billion (2023)[1]
Total assetsDecrease£14.917 billion (2023)[1]
Total equityDecrease£3.439 billion (2023)[1]
Number of employees
36,500 (2023)[1]
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.relx

RELX plc(pronounced "Rel-ex" ) is a British[2]multinationalinformation and analytics company headquartered inLondon,England. Its businesses providescientific,technical andmedicalinformation 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 asReed 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.

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

History

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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, andElsevier,a Netherlands-based scientific publisher.[4]The company re-branded itself as RELX in February 2015.[5]

Reed International

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In 1895,Albert E. Reedestablished anewsprintmanufacturing operation atTovil MillnearMaidstone,Kent.[6]The Reed family wereMethodistsand encouraged good working conditions for their staff in the then-dangerous print trade.[7]

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

In 1970, Reed Group merged with theInternational Publishing Corporationand 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]Reed entered the United States in 1977 by acquiring Cahners Publications, founded byNorman Cahners.[9]

In 1985, the company decided to rationalise its operations, focusing on publishing and selling off its other interests. Sanderson was sold toWestPoint Pepperell, Inc.ofGeorgia,United States,that year,[8]while Crown Paint and Polycell were sold toWilliams Holdingsin 1987.[10]The company's paper and packaging production operations were bundled together to form Reedpack and sold toprivate equityfirmCinvenin 1988.[11]Reed expanded its publishing by acquiring Technical Publishing fromDun & Bradstreet.[12]

Amsterdam headquarters of Elsevier

Elsevier NV

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In 1880, Jacobus George Robbers started a publishing company called NV Uitgeversmaatschappij Elsevier (Elsevier Publishing Company NV) to publish literary classics and the encyclopediaWinkler Prins.[6]Robbers named the company after the old Dutch printers familyElzevir,[6]which, for example, published the works ofErasmusin 1587. Elsevier NV originally was based inRotterdambut moved toAmsterdamin 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 weeklyElseviermagazine, which turned out to be very profitable. A rapid expansion followed. Elsevier Press Inc. started in 1951 inHouston,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 acquiredPergamon Pressin the UK.[13]

Cahners Publishing

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Cahners Publishing, founded byNorman Cahners,was the largest U.S. publisher of trade[14]or business magazines as of his death in 1986. Reed Elsevier acquired the company in 1977.[15]

Reed Elsevier and RELX

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Significant acquisitions

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Division or subsidiary of RELX Date Acquisition Value
Cahners Publishing 1986-09 Technical Publishing Inc, a publisher of industrial, medical and technology trade magazines, fromDun & Bradstreet $250 million[16]
Reed Elsevier 1993-08 Official Airline GuidesInc, a publisher of airline schedules $425 million[17]
Reed Elsevier 1994-10 LexisNexis, an on-line information business $1.5 billion[18]
Reed Elsevier 1997-03 MDL Information Systems Inc, a US software systems and information database developer $320M[19]
Reed Elsevier 1997-06 Chilton Business Group, a US business information publishing company $447M[20]
Reed Elsevier 1998-04 Matthew Bender & Company Inc, a US publisher of legal information $1.65bn[21]
Reed Elsevier 2000-10 Harcourt,an education publishing business $4.5bn plus debt[22]
LexisNexis 2004-07 Seisint ofBoca Raton, Florida,which provided the company with access to HPCC Systems for the first time $775M[23]
Reed Elsevier 2005-05 Medimedia, a medical publisher whose imprints includedMedicine PublishingandMasson $270M[24]
Reed Elsevier 2008-02 Choicepoint,which had been a spinoff ofEquifax's Insurance Services Group in August 1997. The acquisition was completed in September 2008. $4.1bn[25][26]
Reed Business Information 2011-06 Ascend, a London-based civil aviation data analytics company[27] Undisclosed
Reed Elsevier 2011-11 US online-data business Accuity Holdings Inc. from investment firmInvestcorp £343M ($530.1M)[28]
LexisNexis Legal & Professional 2012-03 Law360,a US-based online provider of legal information and analysis[29] Undisclosed
Elsevier 2013-04 Mendeley,a London-based desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online[30] 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[31] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2014-04 Tracesmart, a UK-based provider of tracing, identity verification, fraud prevention and anti-money laundering software[32] 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[33] £25m
Accuity 2014-09 Fircosoft, a Paris-based anti-money laundering company[34] 150M
LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2014-11 Health Market Science (HMS), a supplier of high quality data about US healthcare professionals[35] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2015-01 BAIR Analytics, a US-based law enforcement data company[36] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Legal & Professional 2015-07 MLex, a media organization providing exclusive analysis and commentary on regulatory risk[37] Undisclosed
Reed Business Information 2015-10 Adaptris, a fast-growing supply chain integration business[38] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Legal & Professional 2015-11 Lex Machina,a US-based online provider of legal analytics[39] 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.[40] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Legal & Professional 2017-06 Ravel Law, a San Francisco-based legal analytics company[41] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2018-01 ThreatMetrix, one of the largest repositories of online digital identities in the world £580M ($830M)[42]
Reed Exhibitions 2018-02 Gamer Network,a mass media video game journalism company[43] Undisclosed
LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2020-01 ID Analytics[44] $375m
LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2020-02 Emailage[45] $480m
Elsevier 2020-08 Scibite[46] £65m
Elsevier 2022-06 Interfolio[47] Undisclosed
RX 2023-07 Corp Events[48] Undisclosed

Significant divestments

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In February 1997, Reed Elsevier divested its trade publishing group (includingHeinemann,Methuen,Secker & Warburg,Sinclair-Stevenson,Mandarin, Minerva and Cedar) toRandom House.[49]In 1998, Reed Elsevier sold the children's divisions of Heinemann, Methuen,Hamlynand Mammoth to theEgmont Group.[50]

In February 2007, the company announced its intention to sell Harcourt, its educational publishing division.[51]On 4 May 2007Pearson,the international education and information company, announced that it had agreed to acquireHarcourt Assessmentand Harcourt Education International from Reed Elsevier for $950m in cash.[52]In July 2007, Reed Elsevier announced its agreement to sell the remaining Harcourt Education business, including international imprintHeinemann,toHoughton Mifflinfor $4 billion in cash and stock.[53]

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%.[54]Advertising, which had been the largest source of revenues when RELX was founded, represented just 1% of sales in 2018.[55]

In July 2009, Reed Elsevier announced its intention to sell most of its North American trade publications, includingPublishers Weekly,Broadcasting & Cable,andMultichannel News,although it planned to retainVariety.[56]

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, includingRestaurants & Institutions,Hotels,andTrade Show Weekwould cease publication. The closures were mostly due to the weak economy including an advertising slump.[57]

Variety,the company's last remaining North American title, was sold in October 2012.[58]

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 inReed Construction Data,a provider of construction data.[59][60][61]

In 2016, RELX soldElsevier WeeklyandBeleggersBelangenin the Netherlands.[62]

In 2017, the company soldNew Scientistmagazine.[63]

In January 2019, RBI sold its Dutch agricultural media and selected international agricultural media portfolio (includingPoultry World)to Doorakkeren BV.[64]

In August 2019,Flight InternationalandFlightGlobalwere sold toDVV Media Group.[65]

In December 2019, RBI announced plans to sell theFarmers Weeklymagazine title, website and related platforms, events and awards to MA Agriculture Limited, part of the Mark Allen Group.[66]

Operations and market segments

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Scientific, Technical & Medical

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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 18 million documents.[67]

Scopusis 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.[68]

Mendeleyis a desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online.[69]

Elsevier is the world's largest publisher of academic articles. It published 600,000 articles in 2021.[70]Its best-known titles areThe LancetandCell.In 1995,Forbesmagazine (wrongly) predicted Elsevier would be "the first victim of the internet" as it was disrupted and disintermediated by the World Wide Web.[71]

Risk Management

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LexisNexis Risk Solutions provide decision-making tools which help banks spot money launderers and insurance companies weed out fraudulent claims.[72]

The business claims to have saved the state of Florida more than $60 million a year by preventing benefit fraud.[73]

Accuity Inc.

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Accuity provides financial crime compliance software[74]which allows institutions to comply with sanctions and anti-money laundering compliance programmes.[75]It offers Know Your Customer,KYC,online subscription-based data and software for the financial services industry.[76]The company's services include helping banks and financial institutions screen for high risk customers and transactions,[77]and providing databases such as Bankers Almanac which allows clients to find and validate bank payment routing data.[75]Accuity serves financial services clients worldwide.[76]

Cirium

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Cirium (previously known as FlightGlobal) provides data and aviation analytics products to the aviation, finance and travel industries.[78]

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RELX's legal business operates under theLexisNexisbrand. Many of LexisNexis' brands date back to the nineteenth century or earlier. These includeButterworthsandTolleyin the UK and JurisClasseur in France.[79]In 2019, 85% of its revenues were electronic. The LexisNexis legal and news database contains 119bn documents and records.[80]

Exhibitions

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RELX's exhibitions business is called RX, formerly Reed Exhibitions until 2021.[81]It is the world's largest exhibitions company, running 500 shows for 140,000 exhibitors and 7m visitors.[82][83]

ReedPop, part of RX, organisespopular cultureevents includingNew York Comic ConandPAX.[84]In February 2018, ReedPop acquiredGamer Network,[85]a BritishMass Mediacompany that owns a number ofvideo game journalismsites includingEurogamer,Rock Paper ShotgunandVG247.[86]Ecommerce store The Haul focused onpop culturememorabiliaandmerchandisewas launched in 2021.[87]Popverse,a popular culture website, was founded in 2022.[88]It sold the Gamer Network toIGN Entertainment,division ofZiff Davis,in May 2024. However, it retained thePopverseoutlet.[89][90]

Governance

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As of 2021,the board of directors consisted of:[91]

  • Chair:Paul Walker
  • Chief Executive:Erik Engström
  • 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.[92]

In August 2020, RELX announced Sir Anthony Habgood would retire as Chair, to be replaced by Paul Walker in the first half of 2021.[93]

Corporate affairs

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Corporate strategy

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From 2011 to 2014, the average annual value of disposals was about $300m.[34]The predictability of the company's results in recent years has led to a re-rating of the shares.[94][95][96]

Financial performance

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RELX Combined[3] 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
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 7,244 8,553 9,161
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 2,210 2,683 3,030
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 87.6p 102.2p 114.0p

Social responsibility

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The RELX Environmental Challenge awards grants to projects advancing access to safe water and sanitation.[97]

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.[98]

The Elsevier Foundation supports libraries in developing countries, women scientists and nursing facilities.[99]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.[100]

Programmes operated by LexisNexis Legal & Professional include:

  • With theAtlantic Council,launching the first draft of theGlobal Rule of Law Business Principleswhich will help businesses, law firms and NGOs promote and uphold therule of law.[101]
  • With the International Bar Association, launching an application calledeyeWitness to Atrocities,designed to capture GPS coordinates, date and time stamps, sensory and movement data, and the location of nearby objects such asWi-Finetworks. 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.[102]

Programmes operated by LexisNexis Risk Solutions include:

  • TheADAM(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.[103]As of 2017the 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.[104]

Controversy

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Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows

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The mercury contamination of theWabigoon Riverin Ontario Canada by a corporate subsidiary between 1962 and 1970 was "one of the worst cases of environmental poisoning in Canadian history."[105][106]Reed sold theDryden Millto Great Lakes Forest Products in 1980.[106]As of 2017,Grassy Narrows First Nationchief Simon Fobister stated that the river remained highly contaminated.[107]

Academic journal prices

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Reed Elsevier has been criticised for the high prices of its journals and services, especially those published by Elsevier. It has also supportedSOPA,PIPAand theResearch 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 andFields medalistSirTimothy Gowers.[108]The movement has received support from noted science bloggers, such as biologistJonathan Eisen.[109]Between 2012 and February 2023, about 20,500 scientists signed The Cost of Knowledge boycott.[110]

2019 UC system negotiations

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On 28 February 2019, following long negotiations, theUniversity of Californiaannounced it would be terminating all subscriptions with Elsevier.[111]On 16 March 2021, following further negotiations and significant changes including (i) universal open access to University of California research and (ii) containing the "excessively high costs" being charged by publishers, the university renewed its subscription.[112]

Privacy

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As adata brokerReed Elsevier collected, used, and sold data on millions of consumers.[113]In 2005, asecurity breachoccurred through a recently purchased subsidiary, Seisint, which allowed identity thieves to steal the records of at least 316,000 people.[114]The database contained names, current and prior addresses, dates of birth, drivers license numbers andSocial Security numbers,among other data obtained from credit reporting agencies and other sources. In 2008 the company settled an action taken against it by theFederal Trade Commissionfor 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.[114]

Defence exhibitions

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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 ofSheffield Universityand Nick Gill, launched petitions calling for it to stop organising arms fairs.[115]A subsidiary, Spearhead, organised defence shows, including an event where it was reported thatcluster bombsand extremely powerfulriot controlequipment were offered for sale.[116][117]In February 2007Richard Smith,former editor of theBritish Medical Journal,published an editorial in theJournal of the Royal Society of Medicinearguing that Reed Elsevier's involvement in both the arms trade and medical publishing constituted a conflict of interest.[118]Subsequently, in June the company announced that they would be exiting the defence exhibition business during the second half of the year.[119]

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

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In November 2019, legal scholars andhuman rights activistscalled on RELX to cease work withU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcementbecause their productLexisNexisdirectly contributes to thedeportationofillegal immigrants.[120]

Support for fossil fuel expansion

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An article inThe Guardianin 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."[121]In response, the Union of Concerned Scientists and Scientists for Global Responsibility launched a petition in 2022, and issued a response to the company's reply in 2023. UCS noted in a blog post that "Elsevier and RELX claimed to be focused on a transition to clean energy. Given the services Elsevier and RELX continue to provide, these claims are demonstrably false."[122]Scientists for Global Responsibility also noted on their website that the company's "actions fall short of meeting the standards set in their own pledges"[123]and pointed campaigners to the website of Climate Rights Coalition,[124]which revealed such concerns had been raised by employees years prior.[125]

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