Argus Media
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| legal form | Ltd. |
| founding | 1970 |
| Seat | London |
| management | Adrian Binks (Chairman and CEO) |
| Number of employees | 850 ( FY 2017) |
| sales | 55.7 million GBP (FY 2010/11) |
| Branch | Price information service |
| Website | www.argusmedia.com |
Argus Media Ltd. is a price information service for trading in crude oil , petrochemical products , natural gas , electricity and bioenergy , coal , emission rights , fertilizers and metals. The company is headquartered in London, and is privately owned.
Company history
The British journalist Jan Nasmyth (1918–2008) began in 1970 with the publication of the market report Europ-Oil Prices , which appeared weekly and was reproduced using a mimeograph . In 1976 he first used the name Argus in it . The breakthrough came in 1979 when it switched to daily appearances during the upheaval in the oil market caused by the revolution in Iran . Nasmyth had two employees at the time and his office was the basement of his house in Hampstead . In 1985 Nasmyth sold the majority of his company to Adrian Binks, who also took over management. The descendants of Nasmyth (including the biologist Kim Nasmyth ) held a total of just over 49% in Argus Media in 2011, while Binks held 30.9%. The rest of the shares were in the hands of management.
Sales in the 2010/11 financial year amounted to GBP 55.7 million, profit before tax was GBP 19.1 million, a pre-tax margin of 34%. In 2011, according to the audited annual financial statements, 351 people were employed. According to the company, this number rose to 600 employees by 2014, who work in 19 offices worldwide.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Argus Media Ltd .: Argus Media Ltd Report and Financial Statements June 2011 ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Company Registration No. 1642534, Chartered Accountant Deloitte LLP. (The 2010/11 financial year runs from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011.)
- ↑ a b Jan Nasmyth . In: The Telegraph of October 15, 2008.
- ↑ Guy Chazan: Elusive Oil Prices Led Him to Found The World's First Daily Market Report . In: Wall Street Journal, September 27, 2008.
- ↑ Argus: History ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (Accessed November 2014.)
- ↑ Argus Media response to IOSCO consultation on Functioning and Oversight of Oil PRAs, Appendix VII: Statement of Capital ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 7, 2011.
- ↑ Argus: About Argus ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (Accessed January 2018.)
