This is RELX
Who we are, what we do
and why it matters
RELX is an exciting place to be, and whether you're a new employee, a customer, an investor or someone else, we'd like to show you why that is.
Our website says that "RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.", but what does that actually look like in practice?
It means that if you have an operation, there's a good chance your surgeon has used our tools to increase the chance of a positive outcome. If you use online banking, our anti-fraud systems are likely to be verifying your identity to keep your money safe. If you ever need a lawyer, they might be using our tools to increase your chance of winning the case, and whenever you buy a product, someone along the supply chain has probably benefited from one of our hundreds of trade shows. And that's not all. Around the world, doctors, nurses, consumers, drivers, students and more all find their lives are improved every day as a result of our work.
Data might not sound very interesting, but what we do with it definitely is...
Intelligent Technology at RELX
RELX delivered strong revenue and profit growth in 2023, driven by the ongoing shift in business mix towards higher growth information-based analytics and decision tools
that deliver enhanced value to our customers across market segments.
We have been able to develop and deploy these tools across the company for well over a decade by leveraging deep customer understanding to combine leading content and data sets with powerful technologies. We are confident that our ability to leverage artificial intelligence and other technologies, as they evolve, will continue to be an important driver of customer value and growth in our business for many years to come.
Technology is a key enabler at RELX and we leverage our resources, capabilities and infrastructure across the organisation. We are continually building new products and data and technology platforms, re-using approaches and technologies across the company to create platforms that are reliable, scalable and secure.
Even though we serve different segments with different content sets, the nature of the problems solved and the way we apply technology has commonalities across the company. We also leverage technology to improve operational efficiencies.
Around 11,000 technologists, over half of whom are software engineers, work at RELX. Annually, the company spends $1.7bn on technology. The combination of our rich data sets, technology infrastructure and knowledge of how to use next generation innovation allow us to create effective solutions for customers.
Here are some examples of the technology in use across RELX:
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RISK |
STM |
LEGAL |
EXHIBITIONS |
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A powerful weapon against poverty: Analytics are demolishing the barriers to financial inclusion |
Scopus AI: Change the way you view knowledge |
Generative AI and the Law: AI is here Âalready, with the power to change the legal profession |
Unleashing the power of event data |
RISK
Risk provides customers with information-based analytics and decision tools that combine public and industry-specific content with advanced technology and algorithms to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency.
We combine data and analytics with deep industry expertise to help customers make better decisions and manage risk. We help detect and prevent online fraud and money laundering and deliver insight to insurance companies.
We provide digital tools that help industries from aviation to banking improve their operations.
Risk accounts for around 34% of RELX revenue
You can read our latest Risk stories here, to find out how we help with demolishing barriers to financial inclusion, saving children from online predators, saving people money with telematics and much more...
LexisNexis Risk Solutions comprises the following market-facing industry/sector groups: Business Services, Insurance Solutions Specialised Industry Data Services (including energy and chemicals, aviation, agriculture and human resources) and Government Solutions.
OUR BRANDS, BUSINESSES AND SERVICES INCLUDE...
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a leader in providing essential information to help customers across industry and government assess, predict and manage risk.
Cirium enables customers to fund fleets, build and maintain aircraft, transport passengers and improve traveler experience.
ICIS is the global source of Independent Commodity Intelligence Services – connecting data, markets and customers to create a comprehensive trusted view of global commodities markets, enabling smarter business decisions that help optimize the world’s resources.
Including XpertHR, EG, Nextens, Credit Risk Portfolio, Accurint Virtual Crime Center, LexisNexis Telematics OnDemand and Financial Crime Compliance Portfolio
DID YOU KNOW?
We do business with 92% of the Fortune 100; 84% of the Fortune 500; nine of the world’s top ten banks and 21 of the world’s top 25 insurers
The LexisNexis Digital Identity Network analyses more than 300m transactions daily and more than 100bn transactions annually
More than 180,000 websites and mobile applications around the world implement the LexisNexis Digital Identity Network
In the first half of 2023, our solutions detected 2.7bn attacks for customers, consisting of 579m human-initiated attacks and 2.1bn automated bot attacks.
Scientific, technical & medical
Scientific, Technical & Medical (STM) helps researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes by combining quality information and data sets with analytical tools to facilitate insights and critical decision-making.
We help researchers share knowledge, collaborate, find funding opportunities, make discoveries and accelerate innovation. We deliver analysis and insights that help universities, research institutions, governments and funders achieve their strategic goals. We help doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients, providing insights and tools to find the right clinical answers.
Scientific, Technical & Medical accounts for around 34% of RELX revenue
You can read our latest STM stories here, to find out how we help boost academic careers, how providing access to research saves lives, how The Lancet has been applying humanity to science for almost 200 years and much more...
Elsevier’s customers are scientists, research leaders, librarians, medical researchers, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and students, as well as hospitals, academic and research institutions, health insurers, managed healthcare organisations, research-intensive corporations, funders, and governments.
Elsevier’s services across Academic & Government, Corporate and Health markets focus on: Databases & Tools including e-Reference content; Primary Research; and Print products. In each of these markets, our objective is to be a trusted partner to the customers we serve and be known for quality.
OUR BRANDS, BUSINESSES AND SERVICES INCLUDE...
The world’s largest platform dedicated to peer-reviewed primary scientific and medical research
Clinical knowledge solution helping healthcare professionals and students find the most clinically relevant answers through a wide breadth and depth of trusted content across specialties
An innovative and comprehensive chemistry research information system that supports chemists and data scientists across the chemicals, pharmaceutical and academic segments by providing access to chemistry and bioactivity data from journal literature and patents
An expertly curated abstract and citation database with content from over 7,000 publishers to help track and enhance researcher and institutional data and discover global research in all fields
HESI combines a comprehensive online course for nursing personalised to the needs of each student, with real-time support from a nurse educator who’s only a click away to provide guidance, helping to bridge the gap between graduation and the licensure exam
Science for better lives: one of the world's leading medical journals since 1823
A web-based analytics solution with unparalleled flexibility that provides access to the research performance of over 20,000 academic, industry
and government research institutions and their associated researchers, output and metrics
The world’s most advanced 3D anatomy platform, Complete Anatomy is revolutionising how students, educators, health professionals and patients understand and interact with anatomy and in 2022 introduced the first full female anatomical model
DID YOU KNOW?
We help ensure quality research accelerates progress for society by helping validate, improve and disseminate over 17% of the world’s scientific articles
Elsevier’s over 2,900 journals published more than 630,000 articles in 2023, from almost 3m submitted
ScienceDirect, the world’s largest platform dedicated to peer-reviewed primary scientific and medical research, hosts over 21m pieces of content from over 4,700 journals and over 46,000 e-books, and has over 20m monthly unique visitors
SciVal is a web-based analytics solution that provides insights into the research performance of over 24,000 academic, industry and government research institutions
Legal
Legal provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, and achieve better outcomes.
We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better, and grow their practices. We assist corporations in better understanding their markets and monitoring relevant news. We partner with leading global associations and customers to help advance the Rule of Law across the world.
Legal accounts for around 20% of RELX revenue
You can read our latest Legal stories here, to find out about Generative AI and the Law, how Law360's data and analysis keep readers in the know, how we are helping to ensure democracy works fairly and equitably, and much more...
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is organised in market-facing groups, focused on law firms & corporate legal, government & academic, and news & business markets. Services are delivered primarily in electronic format, with print formats available where there is customer demand. Content and tools are tailored to the specific geographic markets served, supported by global shared services organisations providing platform and product development, operational and distribution services, and other support functions.
OUR BRANDS, BUSINESSES AND SERVICES INCLUDE...
Provides integrated research, practical guidance and data-driven insights via one premium legal solution
Comprehensive online legal research tool that transforms the way legal professionals conduct research
Provides guidance on litigation and transactional legal topics with Market Standards benchmarking
Litigation solution providing legal language analytics on judges and expert witnesses
DID YOU KNOW?
LexisNexis hosts over 138bn legal and news documents and records
On average, 2.2m new legal documents are added daily from over 50,000 sources, generating over 158bn connections with over 35m legal documents processed per day
Nexis news and business content includes over 39,000 premium sources in over 50 languages, covering around180 countries. It includes over 540m company profiles with a content archive that dates back 45 years
PatentSight includes ratings on the innovative strength of over 152m patent documents from over 100 countries
Exhibitions
Exhibitions (RX) combines industry expertise with data and digital tools to help customers connect face-to-face and digitally, learn about markets, source products and complete transactions.
Our business leverages industry expertise, large data sets and technology to enable our customers to build their businesses by connecting face-to-face and digitally. This enables innovation and generates billions of dollars of revenues for the economic development of local markets and national economies around the world.
Exhibitions accounts for around 12% of RELX revenue
You can read our latest Exhibitions stories here, to find out how we are getting smart about face to face events, what is involved in running a global exhibitions business, to get the inside story on MCM Comic Con and much more...
RX organises influential events in key markets focused on addressing the needs of the industry, where participants from around the world meet face-to-face to do business, to network and to learn. Its events encompass a wide range of sectors. They include construction, cosmetics, electronics, energy and alternative energy, engineering, entertainment, gifts and jewellery, healthcare, hospitality, interior design, logistics, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals, real estate, recreation, security and safety, transport and travel.
The 280+ events we ran in 2023 included...
The world’s property market
Premier global event for the travel industry
The North American jewellery industry’s premier event
International Security Conference & Exhibition
International exhibition for personal care ingredients
One of the largest business gifts & home fairs in China
The East Coast’s largest pop culture convention
Japan’s one-stop shop for office related products and services
Our approach to corporate responsibility
Corporate responsibility (CR) performance begins with the purpose of the company. RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.
Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services
and get fair prices; and customers learn about markets, source products and complete transactions.
Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.
To be a leading company we must act with the highest responsible standards, while channelling our strengths to make a positive difference for society. To us, CR is not a programme or prescriptive set of activities, it is how we do what we do on a daily basis. It is the responsibility of everyone at RELX.
CR gives us long-term sustainable competitive advantage. It inspires confidence in our stakeholders, and provides a ‘licence to operate’ in the communities in which we live and work. It underpins our business strategy to deliver improved outcomes for our customers by combining content and data with analytics and technology across
global platforms and helps us build leading positions in our markets by leveraging our skills and assets.
We align the objectives we set for our unique contributions, as well as those for the significant areas that affect all companies – governance, people, customers, community, supply chain and environment – with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to support the achievement of these 17 global goals by 2030.
In 2023, our performance was again recognised by external rating agencies: RELX achieved a AAA ESG rating with MSCI for an eighth consecutive year, was ranked second in our sector by Sustainalytics, maintained fifth place in the Responsibility 100 Index and was a constituent of the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index for the fifth consecutive year.
Our employees, products and shows are regularly recognised for excellence. In 2023, for example:
Risk
Kimberly Sutherland, Vice President of Fraud and Identity at LexisNexis Risk Solutions won gold for Cybersecurity Woman of the Year at the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards
Scientific, Technical & Medical
Elsevier won gold at the Employer Brand Management Awards Europe for Best Employee Experience
Legal
LexisNexis Legal & Professional’s US Voting Laws & Legislation Centre won the Justice Technology award at the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards
Exhibitions
RX won four awards for Best Company Leadership, Best Career Growth, Best CEOs for Diversity and Best CEOs for Women at the Comparably Awards
Our people
We aim to be known as an employer of choice, with excellence in recruiting and retaining the best people. By being a company where employees can do their best work, we can achieve our objectives and meet the expectations of our customers and other stakeholders.
Our workforce of over 36,000 people is split evenly between women and men, with an average length of service of eight years. Today 45% of managers and 31% of senior leaders are women.
Our business relies heavily on technologists and we need to attract the best talent to support our business ambitions. We directly employ approximately 8,000 technologists, 26% of whom are women and we aim to increase that number through
a variety of initiatives including the Women in Tech Mentoring programme, Tech Talent Charter and participation in events such as the Grace Hopper conference.
Ethnic minority representation in the US and UK was 29%, two key jurisdictions which account for approximately 56% of our employee base.
We want RELX to be a great place to work, where our employees feel valued, have equal opportunities and benefit from pay equality, regardless of their gender, gender identity, national origin, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age or disability status. Diversity & Inclusion are important to our future. We need the engagement of people from a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and ideas to achieve real innovation for our customers around the world.
Find out more about us at www.relx.com
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