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M&A Watch: RBI Tempts With Loan, BSkyB Eyes Spain (paidContent:UK)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:58:24 GMT

-- Reed Business Information: Times says Reed Elsevier ( NYSE: RUK ) will offer a loan to suitors for its on-the-block RBI B2B publisher - an indication the financial markets are not in good shape. The paper fingers Advent, 3i, Candover, Cinven, Providence Equity, Permira and Apax Partners as likely bidders, but says Reed is having to sweeten the deal with a loan because "it could not persuade...

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Reed hopes loan offer will kick-start auction (Times Online)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:00:51 GMT

Reed Elsevier has been forced to offer a loan to would-be buyers of its £1billion-plus business magazines division in an attempt to kick-start an auction of the unit behind Farmers Weekly and Flight International.

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Live: For-Sale Reed Business Editors Invite Questions Via Chat (paidContent:UK)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:15:04 GMT

B2B publisher Reed Business Information - currently awaiting likely divestment from parent Reed Elsevier ( NYSE: RUK ) - is throwing open the doors to its online operation, hosting a day-long chat session in which editors from three of its specialist web publications are fielding questions from all comers in a live chat session. Community editors from Flight Global (Stuart Clarke), Farmers...

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Reed's Loan to Buy Offer (PersonaNonData)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:49:00 GMT

The Telegraph is reporting that Reed Elsevier is facing such a problem selling Reed business that they are organizing a consortium to provide funding for a potential purchase. Initially, the company said it would sell the entire division (excluding the Exhibitions Group) then they annouced that they would consider separating the UK and US operations. Outside appearences indicate the sale isn't...

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Divestment Watch: Adrian Monck weighs in (One Man & His Blog)

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:48:11 GMT

Divestment Watch, the now defunct blog maintained by an RBI employee about our divestment by Reed Elsevier refuses to go quietly into the night.The latest blogger to mention its abrupt curtailment is Adrian Monck, professor of journalism at City...

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Desperate Times: Reed Elsevier May Offer Loan To RBI Buyer; One Piece Sale Preferred Again (Paidcontent)

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:03:20 GMT

Reed Elsevier ( NYSE: RUK ) is so desperate to get rid of of its Reed Business Information unit that it is organizing a consortium of banks to lend more about $1.5 billion to the eventual buyer of its more than $2 billion trade magazine division, so that the whole division is sold in one piece, reports Telegraph . This continues the rather haphazard sale process for the company, and is another...

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Reed Elsevier makes its final farewell to arms (The Guardian)

Thu, 29 May 2008 23:02:45 GMT

The company's chief executive, Crispin Davis, said last summer that Reed would sever ties with the arms industry by the end of 2007 in response to pressure from anti-arms trade campaigners and writers at Reed Elsevier's scientific journals. Yesterday the company said it had sold the DSEi, ITEC and LAAD defence exhibitions to Britain's largest independent exhibitions group, Clarion Events, for...

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Reed Elsevier sells defence exhibitions (The Guardian)

Thu, 29 May 2008 12:03:28 GMT

Company finally bows to pressure from protesters and its own staff

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From Dayton to Bharat (Slaw)

Thu, 29 May 2008 02:58:57 GMT

Today's Dayton Business Journal describes a shake-up involving our friends at Lexis, as Reed Elsevier continues its process of moving jobs from Ohio to India. The plans are to move a quarter of the jobs over the next few years. It's been a forty year linkage between Dayton and legal research since the Ohio Bar [...]

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Memo: Reed Elsevier to cut more jobs, shift work to India (The Dayton Business Journal)

Wed, 28 May 2008 18:57:24 GMT

Reed Elsevier, the parent company of LexisNexis, is cutting more jobs as the information and publishing company moves work overseas. (RUK)

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When coming second can be a winning ticket (Times Online)

Tue, 27 May 2008 23:00:10 GMT

Second place has never been so rewarding, at least for those in senior jobs in multinational companies. The prospect that a few directors might get million-euro bonuses just to keep their bums on their seats, aroused unusual protest at the annual meetings of BP, Reed Elsevier, GlaxoSmithKline and Shell.

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FTC Settles with TJX and Reed Elsevier Over Security Breaches (New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter)

Mon, 19 May 2008 10:04:40 GMT

Source: Lexology, May 19, 2008. FTC settles with TJX and Reed Elsevier over security breaches Wiley Rein LLP "In late March 2008, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concluded its year-long investigation of security breaches and releases of personal information by retailer TJX and data broker Reed Elsevier."

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FTC Settles Data Security Violation Case With Reed Elsevier and Seisint (New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter)

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:08:51 GMT

Source: Lexology, May 8, 2008 FTC settles data security violation case with Reed Elsevier and Seisint Winston & Strawn LLP "In late March the FTC settled charges brought against Reed Elsevier and Seisint over Seisint's Accurint database (Reed Elsevier acquired Seisint in 2004)".

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FTC Requests Additional Information from ChoicePoint(R), Reed Elsevier (PR News Wire )

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:30:00 GMT

ALPHARETTA, Ga., April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ChoicePoint Inc. (NYSE: ) today announced that it and Reed Elsevier have received a request for additional information from the Federal Trade Commission regarding the proposed merger between the companies. In addition, the companies have been notified of parallel reviews by the attorneys general of certain states. The Federal Trade Commission...

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Silver Lake Buys i2 for $185 Million (DealBook)

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:06:00 GMT

Silver Lake agreed to buy i2, a high-tech investigation and analysis business serving such customers as the Department of Homeland Security and law enforcement agencies, from ChoicePoint, which itself is being acquired by European media conglomerate Reed Elsevier. Silver Lake, which holds stakes in in companies such as Avago Technologies, Flextronics, and Nasdaq, paid $185 [...]

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Reed Elsevier Seeking Separate Buyer For US Magazines, Variety (Silicon Alley Insider)

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:34:00 GMT

Reed Elsevier is planning to spit up its publishing unit and sell of the US-based and European businesses separately, a source tells Rafat Ali . Apax Partners, which discussed a deal for the whole unit, has now taken itself out of the bidding. Analysts expected all of Reed Business Information to fetch anywhere from $1.96 billion to $2.6 billion , or 8x to 11x 2007 operating income of $233...

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ChoicePoint first-quarter net income down about 26% (The Atlanta Business Chronicle)

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:17:24 GMT

ChoicePoint Inc.'s first-quarter profit shrank following charges related to its pending acquisition by Reed Elsevier. (CPS) (RUK)

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Reed Business Sale: Apax Sitting Out For Now; Parts To Be Broken Up; U.S. To Be Sold Separately (Paidcontent)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:10:48 GMT

So some reality check coming into the sale process of Reed Business Information , the business publishing arm of Reed Elsevier ( NYSE: RUK ) . We have learned that Apax, initially thought of as being one of the main contenders to buy the RBI worldwide division as a whole, is now sitting out of it. It was never very clear how serious Apax was in the first place, but we do know Reed's management...

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Reed Elsevier investors attack pay package (FT.com)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:52:00 GMT

Shareholders in publishing, information and events group take part in a surprise, modest revolt against remuneration report

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Reed pressed to sell arms fair business (Times Online)

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:53:24 GMT

Reed Elsevier, the publisher and exhibitions group, will be challenged tomorrow by Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) at its annual general meeting over its failure to sell its controversial defence exhibitions business.

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