The 2014 Reed Elsevier annual report is now available at: http://www.relx.com/investorcentre/reports%202007/Documents/2014/relxgroup_ar_2014.pdf
Possibly of interest: Revenue and profit decrease: before adjusting for currency, Elsevier is reporting a 4% decrease in revenue for Scientific, Technical and Medicine and a 3% decrease in profit. The numbers are a 2,048 GBP revenue, 762 GBP adjusted operating profit, for a 37% profit rate (down from 39%). Elsevier is counting both revenue and profit as a slight increase after adjusting for currency (p. 12) (For 2013 39% profit rate see: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2014/03/elsevier-stm-publishing-profits-rise-to.html) Changing business strategy: "we are now primarily focused on driving the transition from electronic reference to electronic decision tools" (p. 5, 2014 progress) best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa Desmarais 111-02 613-562-5800 ext. 7634 Sustaining the Knowledge Commons: Open Access Scholarship http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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