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overview
holdings
chronology
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chronology
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline on this site.
antecedents
1880
Jacobus George Robbers starts Rotterdam publishing company
NV Uitgeversmaatschappij Elsevier
1894 Albert Reed establishes UK newsprint mill
1903 Albert Reed & Co becomes public company
1931 Elsevier begins international scientific publishing
ventures
1937 Elsevier was established in New York
1946 Excerpta Medica founded
1947 Harmsworths float Daily
Mirror
1951 Elsevier Press Inc. started in Houston
1954 Reed begins manufacture of building products
1955 Reed begins paper production in New Zealand
1960 Excerpta Medica launches EMBASE online database
1960 Reed buys Daily Mirror's Anglo-Canadian pulp mill
at Quebec
1961 International Publishing Corporation (IPC) buys Odhams
printing and publishing for £38m
1962 US Elsevier Publishing Company founded
1962 UK Elsevier Publishing Company founded
1963 Reed buys Spicers paper
1965 Reed buys Crown and Sanderson wallpaper and DIY decorating
interests
1966 Reed Consolidated Industries Ltd formed in Australia
to consolidate group's interests in Australia and New
Zealand
1968 International Printing Corporation (IPC) buys ailing
tabloid Daily Mirror
1969 IPC sells UK tabloid The Sun to Murdoch
1970 Reed renamed Reed International Limited
1970 Reed buys IPC-Mirror Group newspaper and significant
magazine, periodical and book publishing and printing
interests, including Odhams, George Newnes, National Trade
Press, Pearsons, Collinridge, Amalgamated Press, Kellys,
Thomas Skinner, Iliffe &
Son, Hulton Press, Butterworths and 29.2% interest in
Cahners Publishing
1971 merger of Elsevier Publishing Company NV, North Holland
Publishing Company and Excerpta Media to form Associated
Scientific Publishers
1972 Reed Paper Limited formed in Canada to consolidate
Reed's interests in North America
1972 MEPC-Reed Properties formed
1974 Reed's publishing activities separated into Mirror
Group Newspapers and IPC
1977 Reed takes stake in Cahners to 100%
1979 Elsevier Publishing Company renamed Elsevier Scientific
Publishers after merger with Nederlandse Dagbladunie
1979 Reed sells 49% holding in MEPC/Reed Properties Limited
1981 Butterworths buys Focal Press
1981 Reed buys Berrows from News
1984 Reed sells Odhams Printers to Robert
Maxwell
1984 IPC's Mirror Group newspapers sold to Robert
Maxwell
1984 Reed buys International Exhibition Services Group
1985 Reed buys R R Bowker and Online Computer Systems
1986 Reed buys stake in Direct Broadcasting Limited
1987 Reed buys Octopus Publishing Group, Variety Magazine,
Malayan Law Journals and K G Saur
1988 buys Communications Today, Big Farm Weekly,
PC Magazine and Asian Plastics News
1988 buys Rigby International and D W Thorpe
1988 buys Moving into Maths, Macgregor Trade Show,
Australia Interfama Trade Fairs, Singapore Printing
News, Media International, Industrial Marketing
Digest
1989 buys Mardev, Midem exhibitions, Printing Views,
Chemical Insight, Mac Magazines, Electronic-Business
Asia
1989 buys Independent Television Publications for £113m
1990 buys Estates Gazette for £59.4m
1990 buys Pollution Engineering, Library Association Publishing,
Industrial Seminars Group exhibitions, AGIFA exhibitions,
Promex - JEDIFA exhibitions, Tower Publishing Company
1990 converts 20.9% interest in British Satellite Broadcasting
to 10.45% interest in Murdoch-controlled
British Sky Broadcasting (BSB)
1990 buys Martindale Hubbell and Verlag A Franke
1991 Pearson sells 22% Elsevier
stake for £313m; Elsevier sells 8% stake in Pearson
1991 buys Pergamon Press and Maxwell Directories from
Maxwell for £440m, sells Broadcasting,
Travel Weekly and 49% of Sepel-Com exhibitions
1991 buys medical publisher The Lancet and Rigby
Education
1991 buys 29% of Sinclair-Stevenson; remainder bought
in 1992
1992 buys Parker & Son and subsidiary Parker Griffin publishing,
Messe Salzburg exhibitions, Digital News & Review,
Kemps International Film and Television Year Book, Equity
Publishing and Escrutivo Legislatura
merger
1993 Elsevier and Reed International merge
1993 buys Digital Press, Maxwell's
Official Airline Guides for £275m, Editions Techniques
for £76m and 40% of Giuffre for £30m
1993 sells BSB stake
1994 buys database giant LEXIS-NEXIS and Moving Pictures
International
1994 buys five titles, including The Field and
Shooting Times, from DMG
sells newspaper interests
1995 sells Reed Regional Newspapers in £210 million MBO
backed by KKR - papers are renamed Newsquest Media Group
and later acquired by Gannett
1995 sells Nederlandse Dagbladunie consumer magazines
to VNU, Brabants Nieuwsblad and
Cahners Consumer Magazines
1995 sells Autovisie, Man, Oor, Elegance, Hitkrant
and Residence magazines to De Telegraaf
1996 buys 50% of Shepards £105m
1996 buys Tolley Publishing from United
News & Media for £100m
1997 buys Thomson's legal publications
and Colofon Group
1997 buys Chilton Business Group (39 trade magazines)
from Disney for US$447 m
1997 buys MDL Information Systems for $320 m
1997 sells Trade division of Reed Consumer Books for for
£17 million to Random, Folio
Corporation and ELT division of Reed Educational
1998 buys Matthew Bender & rest of Shepard's for US$1.65
billion
1998 buys Engineering Information, Inc
1998 abandons proposed merger with Wolters Kluwer
1998 completes disposal of consumer publishing interests,
including IPC Magazines to an MBO for £860m (subsequently
acquired by AOL Time Warner for
£1.15bn), Reed Children's Books and Reed Illustrated Books
2000 buys Miller Freeman Europe from United
for £360m
2000 buys CMD magazines, Endeavor Information Systems
and eLogic
2000 sells KG Saur
2000 sells nursing publisher Springhouse to Kluwer
Harcourt acquisition
2001 buys Harcourt General
2001 sells Official Airlines Guide, Worldwide Cahners
Travel Group, Bowkers
2001 sells Harcourt’s Higher Education and certain Corporate
and Professional Services businesses to Thomson
for US$2.06 billion
2001 buys Classroom Connect, Inc
2004 buys Saxon Publishers
2004 buys BioLink Communications
2004 buys database specialist Seisint for US$745m
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