RELX
an Anglo-Dutch multinational publishing and information company co-headquartered in London, United Kingdom and Amsterdam, Netherlands
RELX plc (pronounced "Rel-ex") is a British multinational information and analytics company headquartered in London, England. Its businesses provide scientific, technical and medical information and analytics; legal information and analytics; decision-making tools; and event organisation. It operates in 40 countries and serves customers in over 180 nations. Previously known as Reed Elsevier, the company came into being in 1993 through the merger of Reed International, a British trade book and magazine publisher, and Elsevier, a Netherlands-based scientific publisher.
The company is publicly listed, with shares traded on the London Stock Exchange, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, the AEX Index, the Financial Times Global 500 and the Euronext 100 Index.
History
Previously known as Reed Elsevier, the company came into being in 1993 as a result of the merger of Reed International, a British trade book and magazine publisher, and Elsevier, a Netherlands-based scientific publisher. The company rebranded itself as RELX in February 2015.
Reed International
In 1895, Albert E. Reed established a newsprint manufacturing operation at Tovil Mill near Maidstone, Kent. The Reed family was Methodist and encouraged good working conditions for their staff in the then-dangerous print trade.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “RELX” as an Anglo-Dutch multinational publishing and information company co-headquartered in London, United Kingdom and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as an Anglo-Dutch multinational publishing and information company co-headquartered in London, United Kingdom and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q998470. VIAF identifies the subject as 2146332790918730135. The Library of Congress control number is nb2016008234. 3 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993, 2015 and 1895.
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This entry incorporates text from “RELX” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.