IHS Markit

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IHS Markit Ltd.
Company type Subsidiary
NYSE: INFO
IndustryInformation services
Founded1959;65 years ago (1959) [1] (as Information Handling Services)
FounderAmy W. Yeh
Headquarters
London
,
United Kingdom [2]
Key people
[3]
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$4.658 billion (2021) [4]
Increase2.svg US$1.561 billion (2021) [4]
Increase2.svg US$1.206 billion (2021) [4]
Total assets Increase2.svg US$16.913 billion (2021) [4]
Total equity Increase2.svg US$9.489 billion (2021) [4]
Number of employees
14,000 [5]
Parent S&P Global
Subsidiaries Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Global Insight, Carfax, Inc.
Website ihsmarkit.com

IHS Markit Ltd was an information services provider that completed a merger with S&P Global in 2022. [6] [2] Headquartered in London, it was formed in 2016 with the merger of IHS Inc. and Markit Ltd. [7] [8] [9]

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History

IHS

Information Handling Services (IHS) [10] "was founded in 1959 as Information Handling Services to provide information for aerospace engineers through microfilm databases". [11]

It subsequently grew to incorporate other companies in the information services sector such as Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Global Insight, Jane's Information Group, Prime Publications Limited, and John S. Herold, Inc. [12]

In 2008, IHS acquired Fairplay, a firm that assigns IMO identification numbers for ships, companies and registered owners. [13]

In 2016, Englewood, Colorado-based IHS and London-based Markit merged. Jerre Stead was chief executive of the pre-merger IHS Inc. from 2006 to 2013 and from 2015 until the merger with Markit. [11]

Markit

Markit was founded in 2003 as Mark-it Partners, a financial data provider for daily credit default swap pricing. [14] [15] [16] The company grew via joint ventures and by acquiring other companies, [17] [18] [19] [20] merging with IHS in 2016.

S&P Global

On 30 November 2020, S&P Global and IHS Markit released information about a definitive all-stock deal[ clarification needed ] for around $44 billion, a deal which would be the largest of the year globally, according to Dealogic data. [21] [22] On September 9, 2021, GlobalData announced its purchase of the Pricing and Reimbursement dataset from IHS Markit. [23] In December 2021, the IHS Markit announced its intention to sell Base Chemicals to News Corp for a reported $295 million as part of an effort to alleviate concerns about competitive effects. [24] The purchase by S&P Global was finalized on 28 February 2022. [25]

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