RELX Group

RELX Group (known as Reed Elsevier between 1992 and February 2015) is a multinational information and analytics company based in London, in the United Kingdom. It operates in four market segments: scientific, technical and medical; risk and business information; legal; and exhibitions. It is a dual-listed company. RELX PLC, the London Stock Exchange listed shareholding vehicle, holds 52.9% of the shares in RELX Group. RELX NV, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange listed shareholding vehicle, holds 47.1% of the shares in RELX Group. The shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange, Amsterdam Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange using the following ticker symbols: London: REL, Amsterdam: REN, New York: RELX and RENX. The company is one of the constituents of the FTSE 100 Index, Financial Times Global 500 and Euronext 100 Index. The company operates in 38 countries and serves customers in over 180 nations. About 50% the company’s revenues are generated from the US, with 29 per cent from Europe and 21 per cent from the rest of the world. In 2000, two-thirds of revenues were from print and only a small percentage was digital. By 2015, those numbers had been reversed. Print now generates just 14 per cent of revenues at RELX Group. 7,000 of RELX Group’s 28,000 employees are technologists and about 95 per cent of the company's €500m capital spending is on technology. High Performance Computing Cluster technology is crucial to the company’s strategy.