Some of the major players include IHS (NYSE:IHS), Reed Elsevier Group and Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (Nasdaq:MDRX).
Davis is dismissive, citing Reed Elsevier's economies of scale, barriers to entry and its attentiveness to customers' needs.
Barring a few occasional pullbacks, shares of Reed Elsevier have been trending upward since the beginning of June.
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The respected medical journal The Lancet last week criticised its own publisher, Reed Elsevier, for being the owner of Spearhead Exhibitions.
Davis discovered that beneath Reed Elsevier's warring senior management stood high-quality publishing assets--what they needed was more urgency on the marketing side.
V. ( NYSE: ENL) which is down about 1% today, and Reed Elsevier Plc ( NYSE: RUK) trading lower by about 0.8%.
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The US Senate has been hearing testimony from executives at LexisNexis, a database and information company owned by publishing giant Reed Elsevier.
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Outperforming them both is the London-based publishing firm called Reed Elsevier .
When Lexis Nexis revealed the massive loss of personal data shares in its parent company, Reed Elsevier, dropped in value by only one per cent.
But now that Reed Elsevier has been allowed to consolidate its control in America, the grip of the publishers looks firmer than ever.
In an editorial, The Lancet urged Reed Elsevier to sever all links with the arms trade, claiming they were incompatible with the journal's values.
MIDEM, part of Reed Elsevier, those attending must pay for four nights in a hotel, though the real business gets done in two days.
Another, less-recognized success in an age when information would supposedly be free is Reed Elsevier, the home to specialized legal, medical, scientific and news coverage.
Reed Elsevier is an education publisher and the owner of LexisNexis.
Britain's Office of Fair Trading calculates that Reed Elsevier's price increases since 1999 compounded at a 22% rate, versus 8% for the U.S. consumer price index.
Reed Elsevier has fat margins and high prices in a business based on information--a commodity, and one that is cheaper than ever in the internet era.
DolphinSearch, distributed by Reed Elsevier and now in use in the Enron case, is a litigation tool that uses artificial intelligence to analyze language and retrieve hard-to-find documents.
The brain of multinational Reed Elsevier is in Dayton, Ohio.
Outperforming them both is Reed Elsevier, the London-based publishing company.
Reed Elsevier released its nine-month results on November 8, 2012.
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In 1999 Tabaksblat agreed to become Reed Elsevier's chairman, and he forced through a new management structure and brought in Davis, a 53-year-old Englishman, as the company's sole CEO.
In 1999 Tabaksblat agreed to become Reed Elsevier's chairman, and he forced through a new management structure and brought in Davis, a 53-year-old Englishman, as the company's sole chief executive.
To counter the sluggish economic condition and to improve its profitability, Reed Elsevier is now concentrating on those revenue generating avenues that are subscription based and are recurring in nature.
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For its big customers, Reed Elsevier is building a global internet law source, so that a corporate lawyer in New York, say, can quickly retrieve French labor case law in English.
"On behalf of our readers and contributors, we respectfully ask Reed Elsevier to divest itself of all business interests that threaten human, and especially civilian, health and well-being, " the journal said.
In 1999, a group of respected scientists, along with the American Chemical Society, launched a journal called Organic Letters, designed to rival Tetrahedron Letters, a chemistry title owned by Reed Elsevier.
Reed Elsevier, which in an unrelated move is to merge with Wolters Kluwer, a Dutch publishing giant, will keep New Scientist, which suits its policy of concentrating on scientific, medical and legal publishing.
Founded in 1903 and based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Reed Elsevier is a provider of professional information solutions to science and medical, legal, risk management, and corporate, primarily in North America and Europe.
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Rosenthal and Walters were used to racking up hours on the online research services lawyers snidely call Wexis, after Westlaw, a unit of Canada's Thomson Reuters, and LexisNexis, owned by Anglo-Dutch publishing conglomerate Reed Elsevier.
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