THOMSON CORP. SELLS JANE'S INFO. TO THOMSON FAMILY HOLDING COMPANY.The Thomson Corp. (Toronto, ON) has sold Jane's Information Group (London) to a unit of the Woodbridge Co. Ltd. (Toronto, ON), the holding company of the Thomson family, for $110 million. A division of Thomson's reference unit and Thomson Corp. Publishing International, Jane's specializes in the collection, analysis, evaluation and distribution of information for the global defense, transport and law enforcement industries. The company publishes 16 magazine titles, including Defence Industry, Intelligence Digest Digest: see Corpus Juris Civilis. (1) A compilation of all the traffic on a news group or mailing list. Digests can be daily or weekly. (2) Any compilation or summary. , Missiles & Rockets and Police Review, and nearly two hundred other titles, including newsletters, reports, electronic products and CDs. Jane's latest launches include: Jane's Defence Discovery, a search site that references 3000 defense-related sites and two mil An Internet address domain name for a military agency. See Internet address. (networking) mil - The top-level domain for entities affiliated with US armed forces. lion defense-related documents; Jane's Regional Security Assessment, a group of geopolitical ge·o·pol·i·tics n. (used with a sing. verb) 1. The study of the relationship among politics and geography, demography, and economics, especially with respect to the foreign policy of a nation. 2. a. information reports; and, Jane's Sentinel Information, a monthly report. Jane's Information ceo Alfred Rolington said the deal "will allow Jane's to continue its success and also push forward into fulfilling its ambitions within the global information and intelligence services markets." Thomson Corp. president/ceo Richard Harrington For the German-Canadian photographer, see . Richard Harrington (born 12 March 1975 in Merthyr Tydfil) is a Welsh actor. Harrington has had starring roles in Bleak House and Jimmy McGovern's Gunpowder, Treason & Plot. said that Jane's now "falls outside our focus of being a leading e-information and solutions provider to the legal, financial, learning, scientific and healthcare markets." Thomson said it has retained UBS UBS Union Bank of Switzerland UBS United Bible Societies UBS United Blood Services UBS United Buying Service UBS Used Bookstore UBS University Business Services UBS Universal Building Society (UK) UBS Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System Warburg War·burg , Otto Heinrich 1883-1970. German biochemist. He won a 1931 Nobel Prize for research on the respiration of cells. as a financial advisor and to provide an opinion as to the fairness of the transaction to Thomson from a financial point of view. |
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