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Nielsen Company

Company nameThe Nielsen Company
Company typePrivate
IndustryMedia
Founded1923
HeadquartersNew York, United States
Key peopleDavid L. Calhoun, CEO
Susan D. Whiting, EVP
Mitchell J. Habib, EVP
ProductsMarketing Research
Advertising research
Revenue$5.0 billion (2008)
Employees36,000 (2008)

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The Nielsen Company is an American marketing and advertising research company headquartered in New York, NY. Nielsen is active in over 100 countries, and employs some 36,000 people worldwide. Total revenues amounted to $5.0 billion in 2008.

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UBS Hires Ex-Deutsche Bank Credit Derivatives Salesman Rorech - Wall Street Journal Tweet this news
Wall Street Journal--Rorech had been accused of passing material information about the nature of a forthcoming $1.6 billion bond offering by Dutch publisher -VNU- to Renato Negrin ... - Date : Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:01:21 GMT+00:00
Dutch competition watchdog fines publisher - BusinessWeek Tweet this news
BusinessWeek--The competition watchdog says it allowed Wegener to buy rival publisher -VNU- Dagbladen in 2000, if it kept one of -VNU's- newspapers, BN/De Stem, separate from ... - Date : Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:30:20 GMT+00:00
UBS Hires Trader Who Was Cleared in SEC CDS Case - Hedge Fund Net Tweet this news
Hedge Fund Net--The SEC alleged that Rorech passed along inside information on a credit-default swap trade involving Dutch media company -VNU- to former former Millenium ... - Date : Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:56:59 GMT+00:00
Court dismisses SEC's insider trading charges - Lexology (registration) Tweet this news
Lexology (registration)--On June 25th, a federal district court dismissed charges that defendants engaged in insider trading in credit default swaps. The SEC failed to produce ... - Date : Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:23:21 GMT+00:00
First-Ever Derivatives Insider Trading Case Decided - Mondaq News Alerts (registration) Tweet this news
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)--The bond deal was brought by -VNU-, a Dutch media company, and a group of financial sponsors, including Blackstone Group LP, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. ... - Date : Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:25:30 GMT+00:00
Special candidates register to test at VNU-HCMC - SGGP Tweet this news
SGGP--Some 58 special examinees will participate in the university entrance examinations into the Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City. ... - Date : Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:12:47 GMT+00:00
Judge Dismisses SEC Case over CDS - Hedgeworld (subscription) Tweet this news
Hedgeworld (subscription)--The SEC had charged Mr. Rorech and Mr. Negrin over a 2006 transaction for Dutch media conglomerate -VNU- NV. Neither Deutsche Bank, the underwriters, ... - Date : Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:39:52 GMT+00:00
Truvo US Funding Vehicle Files For Chapter 11 -Sources - Wall Street Journal Tweet this news
Wall Street Journal--The company, formerly called -VNU- World Directories, filed for bankruptcy protection after striking a deal with senior lenders holding 70% of the company's ... - Date : Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:13:42 GMT+00:00
Collective Expands Analytics Group, Hires Nielsen's Evans - paidContent.org Tweet this news
paidContent.org--That was Evans' second stint with Nielsen; he had held corporate development posts with the company since it went under the -VNU- banner in 2003. ... - Date : Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:38:12 GMT+00:00
Nomura Securities Names Managing Director - New York Times (blog) Tweet this news
New York Times (blog)---...- by a consortium of seven private equity firms in 2005, as well as the $10 billion purchase of the Dutch publisher -VNU- by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 2009.--- - Date : Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:27:17 GMT+00:00

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