Reuters

Reuters is…- Financial market data provider- Provides reports from around the world- 200 cities- 94 countries- 20 languages

Reuters started…- Paul Julius Reuter- October 1851 - Submarine Telegraph

- Contract with LSE

Ownership structure- Compromising objectivity- 15% limit (late 80`s)

- Rupert Murdoch´s News Corporation

The Reuters Founders Share Company

- to protect the integrity- Able to outvote all share-holders

Expansion of Reuters- Rapid growth in 1980s

- Bigger range of business products- Bigger global reporting network for media

Thomson Reuters- 15.5.2007- The Thomson Corporation (TC)

merged with Reutes- TC holds 53% of new Thomson Reuters

- 15% rule waived

Chairman of Reuters Founders Share Company Pehr Gyllenhammar said:

“The future of Reuters takes precedece over the principals. If Reuters were not strong enough to continue on its own, the principales would have no meaning”

http://www.reuters.com/news/international

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLcKGLJRDHo