Company Overview
Highlights
Files some 2.5 million news items per year.
90 percent of revenue comes from services for financial companies.
Founded in London 1851, Reuters is best known as a news agency. It employs 2,300 editorial staff, journalists, photographers, and videographers working out of 196 bureaus around the world. But the company’s biggest business in terms of revenue comprises its services for the financial industries. Some 330,000 professionals working in the equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, money, commodities, and energy markets use Reuters’ content, analytics, trading, and messaging capabilities. Expecting continued growth in the financial information and services market, the company is focused on sales of Reuters desktops and enterprise-wide datafeeds.