• Founded in London in 1851
• Around 330,000 professional users
• Approximately 15,000 staff in 91 countries
• World's largest international multimedia news agency - 2,300 editorial staff, journalists, photographers and camera operators in 196 bureaux serving approximately 130 countries
• In 2004 Reuters filed over two and a half million news items, including 440,000 alerts, from 209 countries around the world published in 18 languages.
• Real-time data provided on 5.5 million financial records
• More than 200 million data records maintained and updated containing over
  3,000 billion discrete data points (or record fields)
• Information on 35,000 companies worldwide
• Financial information from over 300 exchanges and OTC markets
• Financial data updated over 8,000 times per second, and at peak time more than 23,000 times per second
• More than 4,000 clients contribute prices, opinions and analysis
• Reuters Group 2004 revenue £2.9 billion *
• Constituent of FTSE100 index
• Listed on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ exchanges: RTR and RTRSY
  (respectively)
• Reuters is among the most read news sources on the Internet reaching millions in their offices, homes or on PDAs

  * Includes Instinet Group Incorporated.