Platts

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Platts

Type	Division of The McGraw-Hill Companies
Founded
Headquarters	, United States
Key people	Warren C Platts

Platts is a provider of energy information around the world that has been in business in various forms for more than a century and is now a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. Products include Platts Energy Economist, industry news and price benchmarks for the oil, natural gas, electricity, nuclear power, coal, petrochemical and metals markets. The president of Platts is Victoria Chu Pao.

[edit] Corporate History

Platts traces its history back to 1909. That year, Warren Platt, with the motivation to ensure that the voice of independent oil men could be heard, began publishing a monthly news magazine called National Petroleum News. Due to World War I this became weekly in 1917, and finally daily in 1923, at which point Platt formed Platts Oilgram to publish the newsletter. In 1953 Warren Platt sold his petroleum reporting business to The McGraw-Hill Companies.

In 2000 McGraw-Hill merged Platts with other like assets to turn the company into a provider of energy information. It is part of the Information & Media Services group of McGraw-Hill, which also includes Businessweek & Aviation Week^[1]

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