S&P Global

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S&P Global Inc.
legal form Corporation
ISIN US78409V1044
founding 1917
Seat New York City , United States
management Douglas L. Peterson (President and CEO )
Number of employees 20,400
sales 6,063,000,000 USD
Branch Financial services
Website www.spglobal.com
As of December 31, 2017

former logo until 2012
Former corporate headquarters, the McGraw Hill Building

S&P Global Inc. (until April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. , and before that until 2013 McGraw Hill Companies ) is a company in the United States with approximately 17,000 employees. The group of companies offers various financial services. For example, the rating agency Standard & Poor's is part of the McGraw Hill Financial Group. The company is also the majority owner of the Dow Jones Industrial Average . The company is based in New York City . The company is listed in the S&P 500 .

history

The company was formed in 1917 from the merger of the McGraw and Hill's Companies media companies. The company grew into a major media group. In 1966 the company entered the financial industry with the takeover of Standard & Poor's.

In the 2000s, the company published media in the fields of education, television, finance, and business. There were many specialist and textbooks as well as magazines published: in particular AviationWeek and BusinessWeek . In September 2011, the McGraw-Hill Companies announced that they were planning to split the company. In the course of the split, two independent companies, McGraw-Hill Financial with the rating agency Standard & Poor's, and McGraw-Hill Education with the publishing house are to be created. In November 2012, the McGraw-Hill Education division was sold to Apollo Global Management for USD 2.5 billion .

Business areas

President of the company

Acquisitions

In the 1990s, McGraw-Hill acquired NTC / Contemporary and gradually formed McGraw-Hill / Contemporary. This division was sold to McGraw-Hill Education in 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b S&P Global 2017 Form 10-K-Report , accessed on April 28, 2018
  2. http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/banken/mcgraw-hill-soll-bis-2012-aufgespaltet-haben/4601532.html
  3. McGraw Hill to sell education unit to Apollo for 2.5 billion , at www.dealbook.nytimes.com , accessed January 8, 2015