Britain’s £72 billion under-the-radar success story: CNBC UK Exchange

2025-07-23 05:30:01

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One of the most prominent bankers in the city has recently investigated the challenges, as he saw, faced by the UK economy.

He said, as a country, Britain does not make much that the rest of the world wants to buy from us these days, regardless of some respectable exceptions, including cars, luxury goods, space, space, and Scottish whiskey.

Meanwhile, he continued, sectors where the UK was one day leading in the world, such as financial services, which did not really recover from the global financial crisis (although he may have added, after last week. Palace’s house letterThe government has realized at least the extent of compensation for the post -crisis organization.)

What, he asked, are the strengths that the British economy still enjoys? It was placed immediately, proposed a global life science sector, a leading legal and professional services sector in the world and some of the greatest universities of Globe.

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Ironically, all these sectors are customers of one of the most successful companies in the United Kingdom, whose results coincide for half a year on Thursday this week. Shockingly, there is an opportunity you haven’t even heard.

However, DeX is now the seventh largest company in FTSE-100, with the market value of 71.9 billion pounds (96.8 billion dollars), estimated at the value of the common value of Tesco, Vodafone, International Airlines Group (British Airways Pois).

This is “the global provider for information-based analyzes and decision-making tools for professional customers and business”, where this amazing evaluation-is currently trading in a rate of prices of about 32 times of historical profits-thanks to years of achieving sales and profits constantly and generating solid cash.

Relx has also grown from EBITDA (profits before benefits, taxes, depreciation and firefighting), which is currently 39.5 %, in the past four years of the past five years. Total shareholders ’returns over the past decade or so is the best in FTSE-100.

The London -based company operates in four sectors on the market, which is the largest and most profitable risk, at the present time.

In this photo illustration, the RLX logo is displayed on the smartphone screen.

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Lexisnexis Risk Solutions provides data and analyzes for customers in 180 countries worldwide, including 85 % of Fortune 500, nine of the 10 best banks in the world and 23 of the 25 best companies in the world.

Next Up is the Scientific, Technical and Medical Department (STM), which is based in Amsterdam, which provides analytical tools and scientific and medical information for researchers and health care professionals. The third largest sector is legal: New York -based Lexisnexis Legal & Profesions hosts more than 161 billion legal documents and legal records reached by about 1.1 million legal professionals.

Finally and not the last exhibition, sales and profits are currently increasing faster than any other part of the business, which may reflect-until years after-the continued pent-up demand from Covid-19s.

It runs a variety of events including New York Comic Con, China Medical Equipment, Book Book and JCK, the largest trademark in the world’s jewelry industry, which is held annually in Las Vegas.

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One of the most wonderful things about this company is where it came from.

It was previously called Red Ellsfir (his commercial brand was renamed in February 2015), formed in 1993 by integrating Esfir, the Dutch scientific publisher with Red International, a British company that was known in the 1970s as one of the largest magazines in the country’s newspapers – including the Daily Mirror magazine – comedy.

The latter included titles such as Whizar, Chips, and Roy of the Rovers, which created generations of British school students.

Miscellaneous, at the end of the century, she was born nearly two -thirds of her revenues from printed products, but during the subsequent contract most of her works immigrated to electronic media. Print now represents only 4 % of revenues.

The journey was not without bumps on the road, the most prominent of which was, in November 2009, Ian Smith, then CEO, only eight months after Crispin Davis, CEO long ago who started preparing business for the digital era.

Khalaf Smith Erik Engelum, former Executive Director of Esphir, has been working in this position since then, and he has built business organically and through regular acquisitions, including five last year alone.

It is also not afraid to get rid of companies at times. What was really enthusiastic about investors is that work is seen as one of the great winners of Artificial intelligence boom. The integration of artificial intelligence into its products has begun for more than a decade, and artificial intelligence is now included in many of them.

For example, in the results of the entire year in February, Engstrom indicated that in the risk section, more than 90 % of the partition revenue comes from machine reactions to the machine.

An employee walks under a trading council on the London Stock Exchange on April 25, 2025 in London, England.

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In Legal, it is busy with the launch of Lexis+AI, which is claiming to be the first AI obstetric platform for the legal profession.

Likewise, in STM, the company launched a producer of the workflow called Scienceedirect AI, which immediately helps researchers reach a relevant copy of the research articles reviewed by the peers and books chapters during the investigation.

It also helps scientific publishers to face integrity issues – which is increasingly important in a world where it risk misleading and misleading the risks that undermine confidence in the research.

All this investment-one of the top 10 tunnels in research and development in FTSE-100-gives the company a legitimate claim that it is one of the largest technology companies in the United Kingdom although it is traditionally believed as a publisher.

However, there is also an argument that Relx, like competitors like Wolters Kluweer (in scientific publishing) and Reuters (in danger and legally) need to continue to invest heavily to stay in the foreground, while in science in particular, there is an increasing competition from open source warehouses such as Arxiv and SSRN.

The corners of the academic circles have long been exposed to the amount of funds that university libraries must pay companies such as Relx and a campaign, which is the cost of knowledge, which was organized a few years ago in an attempt to make academics to boycott Elsevier.

The University of California in Los Angeles was briefly canceled with the company in 2019. All he said, still is the definition of what investors call “the quality of the institution” – a work that constantly re -invests in a large return on capital.

Other examples of FTSE-100 are Experian, another global data provider and Halma, and the Safety and Health Care Technology Company. It is exactly the type of business that the UK earns its livelihood in the world in the twenty -first century.

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