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We help our customers succeed by providing indispensable information-based products and servicesand our extraordinary leaders and employees

make it all possibleThomas H. GlocerChief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters is an information company [1] created by theThomson Corporation's purchaseof Reuterson 17 April 2008. [2] Thomson Reuters shares are listed on theToronto Stock Exchange(TSX:TRI) and theNew York Stock Exchange(NYSE: TRI). Thomson Reuters is headquartered inMidtownManhattan,New York City,USA.The Woodbridge Company, a holding company for the Thomson familyof Canada, owns 53% of the group, [3] which operates in 100 countries, and has over 55,000 employees.Thomson Reuters was ranked as Canada's "leading corporate brand" in the 2010 Interbrand BestCanadian Brands ranking. [4] The Thomson Corporation The Company was founded byRoy Thomsonin 1934 inOntarioas thepublisherof The Timmins Daily Press . In 1953 Thomson acquired the Scotsman newspaper and moved toScotlandthe following year.He consolidated his media position in Scotland in 1957 when he won thefranchiseforScottishTelevision. In 1959 he bought the Kemsley Group giving him control of the Sunday Times . He separatelyacquired the Times in 1967. He moved into the airline business in 1965, when he acquiredBritanniaAirwaysand into oil and gas exploration in 1971 when he participated in a consortium to exploitreserves in theNorth Sea. In the 1970s, following the death of Lord Thomson, the Company withdrewfrom media selling the Times , the Sunday Times and Scottish Television and instead moved intopublishing, buyingSweet & Maxwellin 1987. In 1989, Thomson Newspapers was merged with TheThomson Corporation. In 1996 The Thomson Corporation effectively doubled its size and ensured futur

D ealing 20002 (1992), Business Briefing (1994), Reuters Television for the financial markets (1994),3000 Series (1996) and the Reuters 3000 Xtra service (1999). [5] P ost acquisition The Thomson Corporation acquired Reuters Group PLC to form Thomson Reuters on April 17,2008. [6] Thomson Reuters operated under adual-listed company( D LC) structure and had two parentcompanies, both of which were publicly listed Thomson Reuters Corporation and Thomson ReutersPLC. In 2009 it unified its dual listed company structure and stopped its listing on theLondon StockExchangeandNAS D AQ . It is now listed only as Thomson Reuters Corporation on theNew York StockExchangeandToronto Stock Exchange(symbol: TRI). [7][8] Thomson Reuters brands includeSweet &Maxwellin the UK andWest Publishingin North America.Reuters, ONESOURCE, andWestlaware globalbrands.In June 2008 it was reported that it would be launching a news channel torivalBloombergandCNBC.

[9] This has turned out to be a false report as Thomson Reuters is not enteringinto an already crowded cable business

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