LexisNexis™ Enhances Scope of International Content Available Via News and Business Information Products and Services
Market analysis, business & country reports, Five dozen news outlets and 70 trade publications become available

DAYTON, OH, October 08, 2002 - LexisNexis™, the global leader in legal, news and business information services, today announced recent international content enhancements that significantly extend its worldwide reach, and expand its roster of non-U.S., in-country news and analysis providers.

Additions include international market analyses, and business and country reports; more than five dozen business and general news outlets throughout Europe, Canada, Israel, Australia and New Zealand; five services that supply non-U.S. corporate press releases, news and financial information; and nearly 70 international trade publications on a wide range of industries.

“LexisNexis continues to focus on broadening its international and non-U.S. content sources, and is negotiating such licenses on an ongoing basis,” said Dawn Conway, LexisNexis Vice President for Licensing and Content.  “With even greater access to widely read, world-class international trade journals and analyst reports, LexisNexis subscribers will be even better equipped to make informed, strategic decisions in this increasingly competitive global marketplace.”

Overseas market analyses and country reports now are available via the LexisNexis services from Business Monitor International and World Market Research Centres, as well as the Institute of Management and Administration’s China Business Insider.

LexisNexis also has added leading daily and weekly general news and business publications and wire services in Benelux, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Israel, Australia and New Zealand.  Canadian coverage new to LexisNexis includes nearly a dozen regional and metro dailies, as well as Press News Limited, a comprehensive multimedia wire service.

Four corporate news services – PRLine, CompanyNews, Pressi.com and Japan Corporate News Network – supply LexisNexis subscribers with valuable Japanese and European company information via sources such as press releases, financial statistics, and annual reports.  This content is supplied in English, French, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian.  In addition, World Market Share Reporter of Gale Research Inc. supplies rankings of companies, products and services in 360 locations – a total of 1,670 entries.

International trade publications include more than four dozen academic and professional management journals of MCB University Press (now traded as Emerald); three M2 publications on Europe’s high-tech market, including EuropeMedia; more than a dozen German- and Dutch-language publications covering industries as diverse as baking, meat, agriculture, marketing & advertising, media, travel, pharmaceuticals and hygiene; and two Africa-focused, bimonthly industry journals published by Indigo Publications on mining and energy respectively.

For a complete list of additions, please visit the LexisNexis Web site (172K pdf).

About LexisNexis

LexisNexis™ is the global leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications.  Its online services combine searchable access to over four billion documents from thousands of sources.  A member of Reed Elsevier plc [NYSE:  ENL; NYSE:  RUK], LexisNexis is headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, USA, and does business in 100 countries with 12,000 employees worldwide.  The company offers an extensive range of products and customized tools that address job-specific and organization-wide information needs, driving productivity and confident decision-making.

In addition to LexisNexis™ at nexis.com and lexis.com for corporate, government, legal and association professionals, the company’s diverse portfolio of products includes PR Solutions for public relations practitioners; Risk Solutions including extensive public records capabilities and featuring the National Fraud Center for law enforcement and investigative professionals; LexisNexis™ Universe products for academic institutions; and The Directory of Corporate Affiliations and the Advertising Redbooks.  LexisNexis recently was named one of KM World magazine’s “Top 100 Companies in Knowledge Management.”