Wolters Kluwer

Short description: Netherlands-based global professional services company

Wolters Kluwer N.V.

Type| Naamloze Vennootschap

Traded as

| Template:EuronextAmsterdam
AEX component
Industry| Publishing, information services
Founded| 1968; 56 years ago (1968)
Headquarters| Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands (global)
Philadelphia, United States (corporate)

Key people

| Nancy McKinstry (CEO)[1]
Products| Health, corporate services, finance, tax, accounting, law and regulatory software, services, workflow tools, and publications
Revenue| €4.6 billion (2020)[2]

Number of employees

| 19,200 (2020)[2]
Website| [1]

Wolters Kluwer N.V. (Template:EuronextAmsterdam) is a Dutch information services company.[3][4] The company serves legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare markets.[3]

Wolters Kluwer in its current form was founded in 1987 with a merger between Kluwer Publishers and Wolters Samsom.[5][6] It operates in over 150 countries.[3] The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands (Global) and Philadelphia, United States (corporate).[7][8]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 1.1 Early history
* 1.2 1990s
* 1.3 2000s
* 1.4 2010s–2020s
* 2 Operations
* 3 Sustainability
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## History

### Early history

Jan-Berend Wolters founded the Schoolbook publishing house in Groningen, Netherlands, in 1836.[5] In 1858, the Noordhoff publishing house was founded alongside the Schoolbook publishing house.[5] The two publishing houses merged in 1968. Wolters-Noordhoff merged with Information and Communications Union (ICU) in 1972 and took the name ICU. ICU changed its name to Wolters-Samsom in 1983. The company began serving foreign law firms and multinational companies in China in 1985.[9] In 1987, Elsevier, the largest publishing house in the Netherlands, announced its intentions to buy up Kluwer's stock.[5] Kluwer merged with Wolters-Samsom to fend off Elsevier's take-over bid and formed Wolters Kluwer.[10] The merger made Wolters Kluwer the second-largest publishing house in the Netherlands.[5][10]

After the merger, Wolters Kluwer began expanding internationally with the purchase of IPSOA Editore, Kieser Verlag, Technipublicaciones and Tele Consulte in 1989.[6] By the end of the year, Wolters Kluwer expanded its presence to Spain, West Germany and France.[5] The company also launched LEX, its legal information system, in Poland.[11] In 1989, 44% of the company's revenue was earned in foreign markets.[5]

### 1990s

The following year, Wolters Kluwer purchased J. B. Lippincott & Co. from HarperCollins.[6] The company acquired Liber, a Swedish publishing company, in 1993. The following year it established its first Eastern European subsidiary, IURA Edition, in Bratislava, Slovakia. The company acquired Jugend & Volk, Dalian, Fateco Fîrlag and Juristfîrlaget, Deutscher Kommunal-Verlag Dr. Naujoks & Behrendt and Colex Data in 1995. Wolters Kluwer was operating in 16 countries and had approximately, 8000 employees by the end of that year.[5]

In 1994, Wolters Kluwer expanded its US legal business by acquiring Prentice Hall Law & Business from Simon & Schuster.[12][13] In 1995, Wolters Kluwer acquired CT Corporation. The following year, it purchased CCH Inc., a tax and business materials' publisher, for $1.9 billion. The purchase assisted in expanding the company's business in Asia because of CCH Inc.'s involvement in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong.[5] It also purchased Little, Brown and Company's medical and legal division that year.[6] John Wiley & Son's legal division was purchased in 1997.[14] Waverly, Inc., Ovid Technologies, Inc. and Plenum Publishing Corporation were acquired in 1998 with the intention of developing Wolters Kluwer's medical and scientific publishing industry.[5]

### 2000s

In 2002, Wolters Kluwer sold Kluwer Academic Publishers to the private equity firms Cinven and Candover Investments.[15] (It is now part of Springer).[16] The company established its first three-year strategy to deliver sustained value to customers and shareholders in 2003.[11] The New Delhi Wolters Kluwer Health office opened in 2006. In 2007, Wolters Kluwer Education was sold to Bridgepoint Capital.[17] In September 2008, Wolters Kluwer acquired UpToDate, an evidence-based electronic clinical information resource.[18] The following month, the company received a multi-year contract to provide prescription and patient-level data to the United States Food and Drug Administration.[19] In 2009, Wolters Kluwer was named the "Best Place to Work" in Spain by the Great Place to Work Institute.[20]

### 2010s–2020s

Wolters Kluwer acquired FRSGlobal, financial regulatory reporting and risk management firm in September 2010.[21] The acquisition enabled Wolters Kluwer to provide financial organizations comprehensive compliance and risk solutions.[buzzword] The company acquired SASGAS, a financial reporting software solutions[buzzword] provider, to the foreign and domestic bank market in China in October 2011.[22] That December, Wolters Kluwer acquired Medknow, an open access publisher.[23] Also in 2011, Wolters Kluwer sold its pharmaceutical industry-related Marketing and Publishing Service division to Springer Science+Business Media, which led to a workforce reduction at its facility in Ambler, Pennsylvania, eventually leading to the site's closure in 2013.[24]

In 2012, Wolters Kluwer acquired Acclipse, an accounting software provider, and Finarch, an integrated finance and risk solutions.[buzzword][3] The company's health division tested technology to identify and treat sepsis that December.[4] Wolters Kluwer acquired Health Language, a medical terminology management provider, in January 2013.[3] In May 2013, it acquired Prosoft Tecnologia, a Brazilian provider of tax and accounting software.[25] The company acquired CitizenHawk, an American online brand protection and global domain recovery specialist, in September 2013.[26] That month, Wolters Kluwer acquired Svenson, an Austrian regulatory reporting solutions[buzzword] provider.[27] The acquisition enabled both companies to assist Austrian banks and insurance companies in meeting national and international regulatory requirements.[27]

The company became the fifth participant in the AAISalliance, an arrangement of information providers that make their services available for member insurance companies of the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS) in April 2014.[28] In May 2014, Wolters Kluwer launched UpToDate, a clinical decision support resource, in the United Kingdom.[29] UpToDate was launched throughout Western Europe a month later.[30] Wolters Kluwer acquired Datacert, a Houston, Texas-based enterprise legal management software and services provider in April 2014.[31]

The company partnered with Anhembi Morumbi University, a private university in São Paulo, Brazil, to provide information and resources to healthcare students and professionals in June 2014.[32] That month, the company's CCH eSign solution[buzzword] won the CPA Practice Advisor Magazine's 2014 Tax & Accounting Technology Innovation Award.[33] The solution[buzzword] won the Software and Information Industry Association's "Best Enterprise Mobile Application" award that year.[34] The company partnered with Broadridge Tax Services in August 2014 to facilitate tax reporting and reconciliation.[35] In September, the company's UpToDate resource was released in Latin America.[36] That month the company extended its partnership with the American Internal Revenue Service.[37] 2014 marked the 15th year of their collaboration.[37] In May 2016, the company acquired Enablon, a global provider of Environmental, Health, Safety & Sustainability and Operational Risk Management software and SaaS solutions[buzzword].[38] In 2017 Wolters Kluwer partnered with Skopos Labs to develop the Federal Developments Knowledge Center to help legal professionals stay up-to-date on actions by the President and Congress.[39]

In the United States, Wolters Kluwer's Legal & Regulatory Education (the education division of Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.) published casebooks and legal textbooks through its Aspen Publisher's, Inc. marquee.[40][41] In 2021, Transom Capital Group purchased the Education division for US$88 million,[40] renaming the entire operation as the standalone Aspen Publishing.[42]

In June 2022, Wolters Kluwer signed and completed an agreement to acquire Level Programs S.L., a provider of legal practice management software in Spain.[43]

## Operations

Wolters Kluwer operated under four divisions as of 2013: Legal & Regulatory Solutions (sold to Peninsula Business Services in 2017;[44] Wolters Kluwer continued to operate a division named Legal & Regulatory U.S., which also held on to its Aspen Publisher's, Inc. marquee until 2021[40][42]), Tax & Accounting, Health and the Governance, Risk & Compliance Division.[3] The company is active in over 150 countries. Approximately 74% of the company's revenue came from online, software and services in 2013.[3] The United States medical publishing business is run through Wolters Kluwer Health.[24]

## Sustainability

Wolters Kluwer is listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.[45] The company received the Bronze Class Sustainability Award 2014 from RobecoSAM.[46] Wolters Kluwer is recognized as one of the "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World" by Corporate Knights.[47]

## See also

* Books in the Netherlands
* Croner Group (a subsidiary from 1977 to 2015)
* European Business Law Review

## References

1. ↑ "Managing Globally, and Locally". The New York Times. December 12, 2009. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/business/13corner.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Annual report 2020". http://wolterskluwer.com/binaries/content/assets/wk/pdf/investors/annual-reports/wolters-kluwer_2020_annual_report.pdf.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "Global Publishing Leaders 2013: Wolters Kluwer". July 19, 2013. http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/58357-global-publishing-leaders-2013-wolters-kluwer.html.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "The supercomputer will see you now". December 3, 2012. http://fortune.com/2012/12/03/the-supercomputer-will-see-you-now/.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 "Wolters Kluwer History". http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/wolters-kluwer-nv-history/.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Wolters Kluwer". http://www.ulib.niu.edu/publishers/kluwer.htm.
7. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer Corporate Office Relocated to Alphen aan den". September 1, 2009. https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&tkr=WKL:NA&sid=ajaT3pQBnc1o.
8. ↑ Offices
9. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer Says 'Explosive' China Legal Growth Fuels Sales". August 30, 2010. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-31/wolters-kluwer-says-explosive-china-growth-fuels-sales-for-law-firms.html.
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Kluwer and Wolters Samsom Groep, the two Dutch publishing groups planning to merge, have announced that their merger intentions pre-dated the Elsevier takeover bid". Textline Multiple Source Collection. June 18, 1987.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Wolters Kluwer Law and Business Advantages and Disadvantages". February 5, 2013. http://www.paralegalalliance.com/wolters-kluwer-law-and-business-advantages-and-disadvantages/#axzz3Cjwn4H3s.
12. ↑ "S&S sells two peripheral assets". Publishers Weekly. 1994-11-28. http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A15907600/LitRC?sid=googlescholar.
13. ↑ Benjamin, Jeff (1994-11-23). "Aspen buys Prentice Hall Journals". The Daily Record (Baltimore, Md., United States): pp. 3. ProQuest 389921776. https://www.proquest.com/docview/389921776. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
14. ↑ Bean, Joanna; GAZETTE, THE (1997-09-17). "Publisher plans to buy Wiley Law operation/ Deal probably will result in layoffs for most of the 44 employees in Springs division". The Gazette; Colorado Springs, Colo. (Colorado Springs, Colo., United States, Colorado Springs, Colo.): pp. –1. ProQuest 268129585. ISSN 1531-2607.
15. ↑ Poynder, Richard (2002-11-04). "Kluwer Academic Publishers Sold to Venture Capitalists". http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Kluwer-Academic-Publishers-Sold-to-Venture-Capitalists-17055.asp.
16. ↑ Poynder, Richard (2003-05-27). "BertelsmannSpringer Is Sold to Private Equity Firms". http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/BertelsmannSpringer-Is-Sold-to-Private-Equity-Firms-16696.asp.
17. ↑ "Bridgepoint acquires Wolters Kluwer Education. - Free Online Library". https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Bridgepoint+acquires+Wolters+Kluwer+Education.-a0162469771.
18. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer Health to acquire UpToDate". September 4, 2008. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/wolters-kluwer-health-acquire-uptodate.
19. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer gets FDA contract". Pharma Marketletter. November 5, 2008.
20. ↑ "Who are the Best Workplaces in the UK and Europe". http://resources.greatplacetowork.com/news/pdf/uk's_best_workplaces_09.pdf.
21. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Acquires FRSGlobal". September 24, 2010. http://www.complianceweek.com/blogs/grc-announcements/wolters-kluwer-financial-services-acquires-frsglobal#.VA3X6fldVXY.
22. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer Financial Services acquires SASGAS". Corporate IT Update. October 17, 2011.
23. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer Health acquires Medknow". Reuters. December 7, 2011. http://in.reuters.com/article/wolters-kluwer-health-acquires-medknow-idINDEE7B608T20111207.
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 DiStefano, Joseph N. (September 17, 2013). "Medical publisher to close Ambler office, move workers". The Philadelphia Inquirer: p. A14. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21214491/medical_publisher_to_close_ambler_office/.
25. ↑ "M&A and IPOs". May 20, 2013. http://fortune.com/2013/05/20/ma-and-ipos-6/.
26. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer unit takes over CitizenHawk". M&A Navigator. September 10, 2013.
27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 "Wolters Kluwer Financial Services closes buy of Svenson". Internet Business News. September 2, 2013.
28. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer Becomes Fifth Participant in the AAISalliance". Insurance Broadcasting. April 29, 2014.
29. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer Health Brings Out UpToDate Anywhere in UK". Health & Beauty Close-Up. May 30, 2014.
30. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer Health launches UpToDate Anywhere in Western Europe". Worldwide Computer Products News. May 27, 2014.
31. ↑ "Deals of the day: Questcor Pharma agrees to $5.6 billion deal". April 8, 2014. http://fortune.com/2014/04/08/deals-of-the-day-questcor-pharma-agrees-to-5-6-billion-deal/.
32. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer Health Taps Universidade Anhembi Morumbi to Introduce Drug Information Resources in Brazil". Professional Services Close-Up. July 19, 2014.
33. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer, CCH eSign Solution Wins Prestigious Tax & Accounting Technology Innovation Award". India Investment News. June 3, 2014.
34. ↑ "2014 Finalists". http://www.siia.net/codies/2014/finalists.asp.
35. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer and Broadridge tackle tax compliance". August 13, 2014. http://www.assetservicingtimes.com/assetservicesnews/article.php?article_id=4956#.U-ulafldVyU.
36. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer Health Introduces UpToDate Anywhere in Latin America". September 2, 2014. http://www.uptodate.com/home/wolters-kluwer-health-introduces-uptodate-anywhere-latin-america.
37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 "Wolters Kluwer, CCH Continues IRS Tech Partnership". September 14, 2014. http://www.accountingtoday.com/accounting-technology/news/wolters-kluwer-chh-continues-irs-tech-partnership71970-1.html.
38. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer Buys Enablon: Another Corporate Giant Enters into the EH&S Market". May 31, 2016. http://www.verdantix.com/blog/wolters-kluwer-buys-enablon-another-corporate-giant-enters-into-the-eh-s-market.
39. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer Introduces AI-Powered Predictive Analytics to Federal Developments Knowledge Center" (Press release). September 14, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 40.2 "Wolters Kluwer to divest its U.S. legal education business" (Press release). Wolters Kluwer. 2021-09-27. Archived from the original on 2021-10-26. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
41. ↑ Yamamoto, Eric K.; Chon, Margaret; Izumi, Carol L.; Kang, Jerry; Wu, Frank H. (2001). Race, Rights, and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment. Gaithersburg: Aspen Publishers, Inc.. ISBN 0-7355-2393-2. https://archive.org/details/racerightsrepara00yama/mode/2up. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 "Transom Capital Acquires Wolters Kluwer U.S. Legal Education Business" (Press release). Transom Capital Group. 2021-12-02. Archived from the original on 2022-04-10. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
43. ↑ "Ocumetics Technology Corp (OTC-X) Quote - Press Release" (in en-CA). The Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/OTC-X/pressreleases/8926128/wolters-kluwer-acquires-level-programs/.
44. ↑ White, Sara (2 October 2017). "Wolters Kluwer sells CCH Information to Peninsula subsidiary Croner-i". CCH Daily. https://www.accountancylive.com/wolters-kluwer-sells-cch-information-peninsula-subsidiary-croner-i.
45. ↑ "Wolters Kluwer's Ongoing Commitment to Sustainablity Recognized in Dow Jones Sustainability World and Europe Indexes 2010". September 9, 2010. https://www.euronext.com/en/content/wolters-kluwers-ongoing-commitment-sustainablity-recognized-dow-jones-sustainability-world-a.
46. ↑ "RobecoSAM's Corporate Sustainability Assessment Companies". http://yearbook.robecosam.com/companies.html.
47. ↑ "2015 GLOBAL 100". http://global100.org/global-100-index/.

## External links

* Mary H. Munroe (2004). "Wolters Kluwer Timeline". The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition. http://www.ulib.niu.edu/publishers/index.htm.
* Wolters Kluwer Official website

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