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		<title><![CDATA[Reed Elsevier CEO Leaves After Eight Months; New CEO Appointed]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The global B2B giant Reed Elsevier&#8217;s CEO Ian Smith is leaving after just eight months in the position, and will be replaced by Erik Engstrom, currently CEO of Elsevier. More to come&#8230; by Rafat Ali]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:00:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reed chief quits after nine months]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ian Smith has resigned as chief executive of Reed Elsevier, the Anglo-Dutch publishing group, less than nine months after taking over the role. Mr Smith was regarded as an unknown quantity to investors when he was appointed a year ago. He surprised the City in his only results presentation in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:42:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reed CEO Quits After 8 Mths on the Job]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Georgina Prodhan and Kate HoltonLONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Publisher Reed Elsevier's REL ELSN said on Wednesday its Chief Executive Ian Smith had quit because he was the wrong man for the times.Smith, an industry outsider who resigns after only eight months in the job, will be replaced by divisional...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:15:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reed Elsevier rises on recovery signs at US legal rivals]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reed Elsevier , the Anglo- Dutch publishing group, was in demand yesterday, its shares rising 3.3 per cent to 473p on the view that concerns about the performance of Lexis-Nexis, its content archive service, had been overplayed. Upgrading its recommendation to "outperform" and setting a 600p target price, Exane BNP...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:22:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reed and McGraw Dogfight Over "Industrial Espionage"; Reed Alleges Mass Fraud Over Trade Secrets]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ This is as wild as it will ever get in the traditionally boring B2B world: earlier today Reed Construction Data, part of Reed Business USA, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against McGraw-Hill Construction Dodge, a unit of McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP),...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bishop emerges as frontrunner in ITV race]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:00:42 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reed Elsevier sells Nordic business for ?10m]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Reed Elsevier has sold another division of Reed Business Information, the trade magazine arm that it failed to sell in one piece last year amid poor trading conditions and the subsidiary's reduced valuation.RBI's nordic assets, which publish construction information, have been sold to private equity firm GMT, a specialist...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:31:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[RBI Maintains 2012 Online Target, Plans More Cuts]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New Scientist and Flight International B2B publisher Reed Business Information needs &#8220;additional cost-cutting fast&#8221; and &#8220;some things must be done differently or not at all&#8221;, according to an internal memo from RBI CEO Keith Jones reported by Dow Jones.Dow Jones: &#8220;It also said it wants to raise the sale...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:28:50 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reed Business' Sale Process Moving Quickly; Appoints a Bank]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ At least this time it has started a lot faster: Reed Business Information U.S. has already decided on a bank, we have learned from sources: The Jordan, Edmiston Group is the banker appointed to help it sell properties such as B&C, Multichannel News, Publishers Weekly, Twice and Video Business...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reed Elsevier Group PLC, 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionPaul Sullivan - Bank of America Merrill Lynch Firstly, can you just tell us what underpins your confidence in legal growth this year?  Presumably we are talking sort of 1% to 2%, say 3% to 4%, and in terms of the building blocks that underpin that growth,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:20:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Investors safe with Reed Elsevier shares]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investment Column    Our view: Buy   Share price: 542p (+21.5p)   Just as most publishing groups are struggling to come to terms with the loss of revenue from advertisers battling recession, the Anglo-Dutch group Reed Elsevier comes out with a cracking set of full-year numbers....]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reed Business Auction: The Bungled Process, And the Possible Next Steps]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ So now that the closely watched auction process for Reed Business is off, what's the post-mortem, and what are the next steps? For starters, it is a horribly depressing environment within the company right now. It isn't pretty to not be wanted by your parent company, and be paraded...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[RBI Timeline: How The Non-Sale Unfolded In Links]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Today's news that Reed Elsevier's proposed auction of B2B division Reed Business Information has failed comes after months of behind-the-scenes negotiating, departures and optimistic predictions from the publisher. The next installment in the tale is likely to be the restructuring of RBI and&#8212;eventually&#8212;another invitation to anyone that might be...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:52:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BREAKING: RBI Sale Canceled; Reed Elsevier Still Wants Rid In Medium-Term]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The verdict is in and the answer is: no sale. Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) has announced that its torturous, nine-month campaign to sell the B2B magazine division is over. Reed announced to the stock market this afternoon that it has "terminated discussions with potential bidders" and that due to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:11:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bain Close To Buying Reed Business; Parent May Keep a Stake; Apollo May Rebid]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The sale process of Reed Business is in its final stages, as one of the two bidders left in the fray, Texas Pacific Group/DLJ combo, has dropped out of the bid, according to reports. This leaves Bain Capital as the only bidder and with a shot to buy it...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:27:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reed Business bid drops to USD1bn]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2448-13071_23-251553.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ The sale of Reed Business Information RBI seems close to collapse as third-round bids for the publisher came in at GBP660m (USD1bn).          Sources close to the deal say that CEO Crispin Davis may not accept the bid for Reed Elsevier's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:54:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[RBI sale at risk amid downturn]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The economic downturn is threatening the sale of Reed Business Information RBI, parent firm Reed Elsevier reveals. In an update on trading, Reed says completion of a deal "cannot be certain", citing the worsening "economic and credit environment".          Shares in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:44:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reed Elsevier choice of CEO fuels merger gossip]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20081105/ai_n30967990]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ian Smith, the former chief executive of the housebuilder Taylor Woodrow, is to take the reins at Reed Elsevier, the publishing group said yesterday. The move came as a surprise to investors, who had expected the appointment of someone with a background in the industry.   Mr Smith left...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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