Corporate History
While the company and its publications have been constant for over twenty-five years, many things have changed along the way, as we strive ever to improve and grow.
Reed Business Geo
Reed Business Geo is an international publishing house that provides information to professionals active in the survey and mapping fields. We are a part of the Reed Elsevier publishing company, with 36,500 employees in more than 200 offices worldwide.
Reed Business, of which Reed Business Geo is a part, is one of four divisions of the Reed Elsevier parent company, the other three being the LexisNexis legal division, the Harcourt education division, and Elsevier, the science, technology and medical division. Together, Reed Elsevier publishes more than 15,000 different journals, magazines, books and reference works annually, as well as more than 500 online information services and organizes more than 430 trade exhibitions.
Reed Business Geo comprises a complete range of professional magazines and electronic newsletters and websites, each an authority in its field. The list of titles includes Professional Surveyor Magazine, GIM International, Hydro International, European Journal of Navigation, GIS Monitor, and the International Hydrographic Review.
GITC America, Inc.
In 2000, Reed Business completed its acquisition of GITC, which comprises offices in both the U.S. and The Netherlands. In late 2006, the name GITC America was phased out in favor of the corporate identity—Reed Business Geo.
While Reed Business Geo maintains all rights and reservations to the name of GITC, and the domain gitcamerica.com, these have been redirected to reedbusiness-geo.com, and addresses @gitcamerica.com will be phased out.
Reed Elsevier
The foundations of Reed Elsevier were laid in 1894 when Albert Reed established his newsprint manufacturing facility in Kent, England and in 1880 when Jacobus George Robbers started a publishing company in The Netherlands taking the name of Elsevier from a 16th century Dutch family of booksellers and printers.
The official merger of Reed International with Elsevier NV became official on January 1, 1993.
Acquisitions over recent years have included Lexis-Nexis, Harcourt, Miller Freeman Europe, Chilton Business Group, and Cahners Consumer Magazines.