Company Name | Thomson Corporation |
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Website | www.thomson.com/ |
Snippet | The Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies. It was established in 1989 following a merger between International Thomson Organisation Ltd (ITOL) and Thomson Newspapers.[1] In 2008, it purchased Reuters Group to form Thomson Reuters. The Thomson Corporation was active in financial services, healthcare sectors, law, science and technology research and tax and accounting sectors. The company operated through five segments (2007 onwards): Thomson Financial, Thomson Healthcare, Thomson Legal, Thomson Scientific and Thomson Tax & Accounting. |
Fate | Merger with Reuters Group |
Defunct | 2008 |
Founded | 1989 |
Revenue | US$6.641 billion (2006)[2] |
Website | www.thomson.com/ |
Industry | real estate |
Products | Books, publishing |
linkedin.com/company/thomson-corporation | |
Divisions | Thomson Financial Thomson Scientific Thomson Tax & Accounting Thomson Healthcare Thomson Legal Thomson Learning (Until 2007) |
Successor | Thomson Reuters |
Key people | David Thomson, Shirley Thomson Chairman |
Net income | US$1.120 billion (2006) |
size_range | 1 - 10 |
Former type | Public TSX: TOCNYSE: TOC |
Predecessor | Thomson Newspapers & International Thomson Organisation Ltd (ITOL) |
Headquarters | Stamford, Connecticut, US |
Number of employees | 38,000 |
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