Thomson Financial

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Thomson Financial is an arm of The Thomson Corporation one of the world's leading information companies, focused on providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers.

1 Recent history
2 Major Office Locations
3 Products
4 Awards
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Recent history

Thomson Financial made significant growth when they acquired another Financial Information Provider Primark on June 6th 2000 for $842 Million in an all cash deal. Primark owned many names familiar in both the US and UK/Europe such as Datastream, ICV, IBES, and this consolidated and combined competing financial information provision, for example the FirstCall and IBES earnings estimate data under the same company.

[edit] Major Office Locations

Thomson Financial has many offices across the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions. The head office is based in New York, with significant presence in Boston, San Francisco, London, Frankfurt, Manila, with many satellite offices in locations such as Sydney, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Zurich, Geneva, just as some examples. The two major data centers, not including smaller points of presence, for Thomson Financial are located in NYC and New Jersey.

[edit] Products

The company has a wide variety of financial products which grows and changes rapidly to market need. Thomson ONE is a core product, although legacy branded offerings such as Datastream Advance and Global Topic will probably remain for a few years.

Thomson ONE is a competitor of Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. Currently known as one of "The Big Three." There are many different packages of Thomson ONE; ie. Thomson ONE for Investment Management, Thomson ONE for Investment Banking, etc.

Due to the acquisition of Primark and buyout of ILX Systems, Thomson Financial has seen tremendous growth over the last four years and has seen vast improvement in the core product Thomson ONE.

In June of 2005, they hired management consultants Boston Consulting to revamp their Global Sales and Marketing team after frequent reorganizations. Those changes went in to effect in January of 2006.