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...Nancy McKinstry, CEO, Wolters Kluwer ‘Study after study has shown that gender diversity contributes to positive business outcomes, and that has driven the focus on closing the gender gap at senior levels...
...Launch partners include Pearson – the educational publisher and owner of the Financial Times – Wolters Kluwer and Reed Elsevier....
...Shares in the Toronto-listed group, which have underperformed competitors such as Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer since July, slipped 1.3 per cent to C$28.06 by lunchtime trading....
...Pharmaceutical ad spending is down 16 per cent year on year, she said, but Wolters Kluwer was faring better than rivals....
...“Several funds flew under the radar and no-one knew what they were holding,” says Andrew Liegel, of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services....
...andrew.hill@ft.com...
...Roy Martin, the division’s chief executive, said it was looking for acquisitions in continental Europe, the traditional stronghold of Wolters Kluwer, its Dutch rival, and would launch products for Asian...
...Nancy McKinstry, chairman and chief executive of Wolters Kluwer, the Dutch publishing group, tells Andrew Hill, the FT's city editor, why a strong pipeline of female middle managers is vital to producing...
...Thomson Reuters competes with groups including Bloomberg in financial data and Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer in financial and legal information....
...Panellists also included Clara Furse, former chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, Elizabeth Barrett, partner at Slaughter and May, and Nancy McKinstry, chief executive of Wolters Kluwer, the Dutch...
...Candover and Cinven, the UK private equity groups created Springer in 2003 by merging former divisions of Bertelsmann and Wolters Kluwer....
...The tax and accounting division, which operates the Checkpoint and Onesource platforms and counts Wolters Kluwer among its chief rivals, reported revenue of $913m in 2008....
...Andrew may want to summarise? Hill: Sure. Yes, thank you. I’m fascinated by the conversation. It’s been a privilege to listen to....
...Wolters Kluwer will find opportunities while its closest rivals are preoccupied with the integration of large acquisitions, its chief executive has said, as she defended the professional publisher’s growth...
...Inevitably, a takeover of Wolters Kluwer is back in the frame....
...Ms McKinstry would not comment on a recurrence of rumours of a possible combination Reed Elsevier, saying only that Wolters Kluwer was focused on its own strategy....
...Bankers familiar with the sector said Huveaux could fit with private equity groups that had built up business-to-business divisions, although Bridgepoint, which bought Wolters Kluwer’s European educational...
...its own opportunity: to transform Thomson Financial from number three in its market to number one, and to build its group into a more potent competitor against the likes of McGraw Hill, Reed Elsevier and Wolters...
...Nancy McKinstry, chief executive and chairman, Wolters Kluwer (8)15. Ingrid Matthäus-Maier, chair and chief executive, KfW Bankengruppe (17)16....
...Omers Capital Partners paid $7.7bn to acquire Thomson Learning, the education publishing unit of Thomson Corp, while in March, Bridgepoint Capital paid £750m to take control of the education division of Wolters...
...Only three months ago, Sir Crispin Davis was resisting the idea that Reed Elsevier would follow its counterparts Thomson Corporation or Wolters Kluwer in putting its education businesses up for sale....
...The jump in the shares of Pearson, Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer on Friday reflected hopes of a uniting logic behind the week’s deals....
...However, the Harcourt auction, coming as Thomson Corporation and Wolters Kluwer are also selling their education assets, is expected to attract interest from other bidders, particularly private equity-backed...
...“Bid rumours are aplenty these days,” Dresdner Kleinwort analysts wrote on Friday, highlighting a similar jump in Reed Elsevier’s shares on recent speculation of a combination with Wolters Kluwer, the Dutch...
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