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...Government and philanthropic backers who underwrite academics’ work are increasingly demanding it be made freely available online, forcing leading academic publishers including Elsevier and Springer to offer...
...There is recent precedent from a decision last week involving another Anglo-Dutch company with a substantial global business, Relx — previously known as Reed Elsevier....
...That claim was questioned by Mr Mackenzie, who noted that RELX Group, the information group formerly known as Reed Elsevier, had not seen any “uplift in value” following its corporate restructuring....
...Amsterdam will remain home to Elsevier, the biggest operating unit....
...But Blakenham outflanked him with a share swap deal with Dutch publisher Elsevier, which diluted News Corporation’s holding, and Mr Murdoch eventually sold off the stake....
...No, not the scientist customers of information group Reed Elsevier — the journalists trying to work out why it’s now called Relx....
...Adjusted operating profits are 6 per cent higher at £1bn for RELX, the big data company formerly known as Reed Elsevier. It’s had a great run in recent years....
...AvaxHome’s owners were ordered to pay $37.5m by a US court in April, in a default judgment following a suit by academic publisher Elsevier....
...An upgrade to “buy” from Goldman Sachs lifted Reed Elsevier 2.1 per cent to £11.24....
...The highest profile revolt against an individual director came at Reed Elsevier, where almost three in 10 of the shareholder base failed to support the re-election of Robert Polet....
...The new company will be one of the biggest scientific publishers by revenues, though still smaller than Elsevier, the market leader owned by Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier....
...Duncan Palmer, outgoing chief financial officer at Reed Elsevier, saw his pay rise from £1.36m to £1.56m – ahead of Mr Luff’s 2013 total headline payout....
...As well as Mr Laidlaw, Centrica is looking to replace two other senior executives: finance director Nick Luff, who has agreed to join Reed Elsevier, and Chris Weston, who in May quit as head of Centrica’...
...RBI and US-based Accuity – which its parent Reed Elsevier acquired at the end of 2011 – operate together as Accuity and sell databases such as Bankers Almanac....
...The company has already launched a search to replace Nick Luff, its finance director, who is due to step down to join Reed Elsevier by the end of the year....
...That came five months after it revealed that Nick Luff, finance director, was moving to Reed Elsevier....
...Centrica said the imminent departure of finance director Nick Luff, who is set to join academic publisher Reed Elsevier this year, had helped spur a wider review of succession planning for the energy supplier...
...He follows Nick Luff, finance director, who has been poached by Reed Elsevier. Chief executive Sam Laidlaw may soon follow....
...Reed Elsevier’s stock has topped the benchmark by 48 per cent. The promotion cements Mr Habgood’s position as the City’s go-to grandee....
...Excluding the performance element, the sale price represents a multiple of nearly nine times Springer’s forecast 2013 ebitda – a slight discount to where shares of Reed Elsevier and Informa trade....
...Springer, which sells journals, books and databases to libraries and research-intensive companies, competes with Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier and Dutch company Wolters Kluwer....
...Reed Elsevier drifted 0.4 per cent to 692p as analysts picked up on a new threat to its scientific journals....
...Reed Elsevier lost 1.8 per cent to 761.5p after Citi downgraded the stock to “neutral” on valuation grounds....
...DMGT’s shares jumped 11 per cent after the results, to trade on a 2013 earnings multiple of 10 times, against 12 for Reed Elsevier and 11.5 for Axel Springer....
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