About Reed 
Reed Exhibitions – History
The Reed company was founded in 1894 when Albert E. Reed opened his newspaper printing press in Tovil Mill in Kent (UK). In 1903 the company became a public limited company. The name of the parent company was changed in 1970 to Reed International Ltd. and again in 1982 to Reed International plc.
The Elsevier company dates back to 1880 when Jacobus
George Robbers set up a publishing house in Rotterdam which he named after
"Elsevier", a publishing family from the 16th century. Elsevier
entered the American market in 1937 in the form of a joint venture; this
eventually saw the founding of the company Excerpta Media in 1946.
The group launched in the UK in 1962 under the name Elsevier Publishing
Company, and the name was instantly adopted in the USA, too.
The amalgamation of Elsevier Publishing Company N.V., Noord Hollandsche Uitgeverschappij and Excerpta Media saw the creation of a global publishing group trading under the name of Associated Scientific Publishers from 1971. In 1979 the group was then renamed "Elsevier Scientific Publishers".
In 1993 Elsevier and Reed joined forces and have been trading ever since under the name Reed Elsevier Group p.l.c. The shareholders, each with an equal stake, are Reed Elsevier plc and Reed Elsevier N.V.
A major step in expanding the exhibition business was the acquisition of the European business of UN Miller Freeman in 2000 and its incorporation as Reed Exhibitions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier plc.
Further information
on the group can be found on the Reed Elsevier page
