RBI Divestment Timeline

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Reed CEO Admits, 'We Should Have Sold RBI A Year Earlier'

09/03/2009 8:20

Business and medical publisher Reed Elsevier's outgoing CEO Crispin Davis, given a somewhat heraldic exit interview in the Financial Times, has said he should have acted sooner to sell Variety...

Earnings: Reed Elsevier Sharpens The Axe; $220 Million Extra Annual Savings Targeted

19/02/2009 9:22

Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) has promised to aggressively cut back and restructure its businesses by an extra $220 million a year as it recovers from a tumultuous year that saw the failed auctio...

After The Non-Sale, RBI Confirms 35 UK Job Cuts

28/01/2009 11:35

B2B magazine publisher Reed Business Information is to cut 35 jobs in the UK, as part of a cost-cutting drive to reduce overheads following last year's failed sell-off of the division by owner...

Reed Tightens The Belt Again: Layoffs Hit Variety, Multichannel, PW; Wage Freeze; B&C Shrinking

26/01/2009 23:32

Another round of jobs cuts at Reed Business Information—7 percent across the board, according to multiple reports—and many of these come close to the bone. Nikki Finke, who wrote earlier today...

Industry Moves: Current TV; Reed Elsevier; Net Communities; Digitas; Bigmouthmedia

26/01/2009 9:48

—Current: Online and TV news company Current has appointed former BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) head of programming James Baker to the new role of general manager for its UK operations, responsible for th...

RBI Sale Cancelled; Reed Elsevier Still Wants Rid In Medium-Term

10/12/2008 14:48

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 s...

RBI Sale Nearing End Game; Will Either Pick Winner Or Yank Sell-Off In Coming Weeks: Report

19/11/2008 12:23

We could be approaching the end of the Reed Business Information sell-off saga - and it looks like Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) will either get less than it hoped or pull the sale altogether. Blo...

Industry Moves: RBI CEO Van De Aast Quits, Sell-Off Remains Unresolved

17/11/2008 15:34

The CEO of B2B publisher Reed Business Information, Gerard van de Aast, is to step down next month and will relinquish his positions on the boards of both RBI and parent company Reed Elsevier ...

Earnings: Reed Stands Up To Economy, But RBI Sale 'Cannot Be Certain'

13/11/2008 8:45

Managing to dodge the economy's bullets in its remaining businesses, Anglo-Dutch science and business publisher Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) told us what we already knew about the struggling effo...

Private Equity Funder Apollo 'Pulls Out' Of RBI Bid Consortium: Report

10/11/2008 9:21

Just a few days after Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) named a new CEO, it's already lost one bidder for its on-the-block Reed Business Information (RBI) publishing unit. US equity fund management Ap...

Industry Moves: Reed Elsevier Picks Smith For CEO; £3.6M Possible Salary, RBI Sale Top Of To-Do Lis

04/11/2008 9:36

Science and business publisher Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) has announced who will lead the company following CEO Sir Crispin Davis' planned retirement. Ian Smith starts as CEO-designate on Janua...

@ FOBM: Ex-RBI CEO To Reed: Cut Asking Price, Break It Up

28/10/2008 16:04

Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) is unlikely to sell its Reed Business Information (RBI) as a whole entity and must cut its asking price, the former US CEO of the UK-based B2B publishing unit has war...

Reed Elsevier Plans Even Sweeter Sweetener For Struggling RBI Sell-Off: Report

27/10/2008 21:23

We thought it already sweetened the offer once, but now Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) plans to offer a bigger vendor loan to finance the struggling sell-off of its Reed Business Information (RBI) ...

French Bank Calyon Walks Away From RBI Sale Syndicate

15/10/2008 10:34

It goes on and on. Reed Elsevier's proposed sale of its UK B2B magazine division Reed Business Information is facing a new setback after French bank Calyon declared itself out of the banking s...

RBI Sale At Risk Of Falling Through As Bidding Price Drops To $1.7 billion

10/10/2008 15:18

Reed Elsevier's troubled attempt to sell-off its UK B2B division Reed Business Information appears to be in big trouble with the news that bids for the company since August have fallen about a...