Reuters getting a new owner

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International wire agency Reuters is being sold to Thomson Corp., the Canadian publisher, for around $17.2 billion. While the Thomson and Reuters news and financial businesses will be called Reuters, the other Thomson businesses are going to be renamed Thomson-Reuters Professional. This signals the formation of the world’s biggest financial news and data service. Thomson-Reuters will have revenues of a whopping $12 billion and close to 50,0000 employees worldwide. This entity will command around 34% of the financial information market; Bloomberg LP, that has 33%, will soon slip to second place. Tom Glocer, the Reuters Group Chief Executive, will now become the Chief Executive Officer of Thomson- Reuters “The combination of these two great businesses will create an exceptional global information company guided by the Reuters Trust Principles,” Tom Glocer said in the statement.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

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