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Reed Elsevier is to sell its TWgroup travel publishing division to Clive Jacobs. 08-Jul-2009 Reed Elsevier is planning to merge the back office operations of the three main divisions in its publishing business, including the consolidation of 140 data centres into less then 40. 17-Dec-2007 Reed Elsevier is to sell its Harcourt educational publishing business in the US to HM Riverdeep for £2bn. 17-Jul-2007 Reed Elsevier is to relocate the distribution centre for its Harcourt Education business to a 200,000 sq ft warehouse at Shirley Park Farm in Rushden by the end of the year. 13-Jun-2005 Reed Elsevier is to acquire Seisint, the US supplier of public record and risk management information, for £417m. 15-Jul-2004 Reed Elsevier is to acquire Saxon Publishers, the US publisher of instructional materials, in order to expand its Harcourt Education division. 03-Jun-2004 Reed Elsevier, the publishing group, is to set up a new 25,000 sq ft headquarters at Trafalgar Square in London. 29-Sep-2003 Reed Elsevier is looking to make a further £90m of cost savings, which will involve an unspecified number of job losses and the outsourcing of some of its printing operations to Asia. 08-Aug-2003 Reed Elsevier is to shed 27 jobs at its Harcourt educational publishing business in Oxford. 04-Dec-2002 Reed Elsevier is investing £17m in a strategic partnership with Riverdeep of Ireland to develop interactive learning products for children. 15-Oct-2001 Reed Elsevier is planning to sell the Official Airlines Guide to a management buy-out for a nominal sum. 05-Jul-2001 Highbury House Communications has acquired ten trade magazines from Reed Elsevier for £4.8m. 03-May-2001 Reed Elsevier is raising £1.2bn in a share issue in order to reduce debt and fund the acquisition of US publisher Harcourt General. 30-Nov-2000 Reed Elsevier is linking up with Thomson Corporation of Canada to acquire Harcourt General, the US publisher of text books, for £3.1bn, and the assets will be shared out between the two companies. 30-Oct-2000 United News & Media is to sell Miller Freeman Europe, the operator of more than 100 trade shows, to Reed Elsevier for £360m. 26-Jul-2000 Reed Elsevier is to sell Springhouse Corporation, the supplier of information and services to the US nursing market, to Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer. 24-May-2000 Reed Elsevier is planning to invest £750m in its online businesses over the next three years, and is also launching a £250m cost-cutting campaign. 24-Feb-2000 Reed Elsevier is to spend up to £200m on the development of new internet-based services next year, and has also announced a restructuring programme to create three global divisions. 10-Dec-1999 Reed Elsevier is selling its 64% stake in REZSolutions, the developer of IT systems for hotels, to Pegasus of the US for £101m. 18-Nov-1999 Reed Elsevier is selling its illustrated books division to management for £33m, and the new business will be called Octopus Publishing Group. 24-Aug-1998 Reed Elsevier is acquiring two US legal publishing businesses from Times Mirror for £980m - Matthew Bender and the remaining 50% of Shepard's Company. 28-Apr-1998 Britt Allcroft has bought the rights to the Thomas the Tank Engine children's books from Reed Elsevier for £13.5m. 28-Apr-1998 Reed Elsevier has said it has over £2bn to spend on acquisitions and it is thought to be considering a bid for Matthew Bender, the US legal publisher. 13-Mar-1998 Reed Elsevier has called off its £17bn merger with Wolters Kluwer, following an attempt by Wolters to renegotiate terms because of fears that the European Commission would force the combined group to dispose of a large part of the tax and legal publishing business. 10-Mar-1998 Reed Elsevier has sold IPC Magazines, the UK's largest publisher of consumer magazines, to a management team for £860m in order to focus on business and scientific publications. 06-Jan-1998 Reed Elsevier is close to agreeing to a £900m management buy-out of its IPC Magazines business, in a deal being negotiated with the Cinven venture capital group. 29-Dec-1997 Reed Elsevier is to acquire Editions Prat, the French legal publisher, for undisclosed terms. 27-Dec-1997 The proposed merger between Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer is undergoing an in-depth investigation by the European Commission due to concerns that the merged group would have a dominant position in taxation and legal publishing. 12-Dec-1997 Time Warner of the US has expressed interest in acquiring the IPC consumer magazines group from Reed Elsevier, but it may have to compete against a number of European publishing companies. 28-Nov-1997 Reed Elsevier has announced plans to sell its IPC consumer magazines division, which could fetch up to £1bn, and interested companies are likely to include United News & Media and Bertelsmann. 28-Oct-1997 Reed Elsevier is thought to be likely to sell its IPC Magazines division if the government goes ahead with plans to abolish advance corporation tax. 16-Oct-1997 Reed Elsevier is planning a £17.5bn merger with Wolters Kluwer of Amsterdam, creating the world's largest professional and scientific publisher with combined sales of about £5bn. 14-Oct-1997 Reed Elsevier is expected to negotiate compensation for advertisers following the revelation that it has been overstating circulation figures for some of its travel guides since 1991. 29-Sep-1997 Reed Elsevier has sold its Tigerprint greeting cards business to management for £12.5m, as part of a plan to sell off its Reed Books division. 11-Aug-1997 Reed Elsevier is soon expected to announce the sale of its children's books publishing business, and interested parties are said to include Random House, Britt Allcroft, and Egmont International. 08-Aug-1997 Reed Elsevier is acquiring the three main divisions of Chilton Business Group, the US trade press publisher, for £270m. 24-Jun-1997 Reed Elsevier is to form a strategic alliance with Microsoft, paying £18m to use Microsoft Commercial Internet Systems and other developments. 07-May-1997 Reed Elsevier is to acquire MDL Information Systems, the US manager of research and development information, for £201m. 25-Mar-1997 Reed Elsevier is to buy about 50 US legal publications from Thomson Corp, for undisclosed terms. 30-Jan-1997 Reed Elsevier has acquired Colofon, the Dutch publisher of scientific and business material, for up to £80m. 21-Jan-1997 Reed Elsevier is planning to invest up to £18m in developing the world's largest scientific database, which will make all of its 1,200 journals available on the internet. 03-Jan-1997 Reed Elsevier is acquiring Tolley, the tax and legal publisher, for £100m, and is now planning a £2bn acquisition drive concentrated in electronic publishing. 09-Aug-1996 Reed Elsevier is linking up with Times Mirror, the US media group, to jointly acquire Shephard's, the legal publisher, for $250m. 04-Jul-1996 Reed Elsevier has about $5bn to spend on acquisitions this year, and is said to be targeting US professional publishing operations. 14-Mar-1996 Reed Elsevier has dropped the planned sale of its Reed Consumer Books business as it could not get a high enough price. 09-Mar-1996 Reed Elsevier has sold five subsidiaries, raising £740m, including its UK regional newspaper business to a management buy-out. 23-Nov-1995
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