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FORM 6-K
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Report of Foreign Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the month FEBRUARY 1999
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REUTERS GROUP PLC
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(Translation of registrant's name into English)
85 FLEET STREET, LONDON EC4P 4AJ, ENGLAND
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(Address of principal executive offices)
[Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual
reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.]
Form 20-F _X_ Form 40-F __
[Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the
information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to
the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.]
Yes ___ No _X_
THIS REPORT IS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN THE PROSPECTUSES CONTAINED IN POST
EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 33-16927 ON FORM S-8,
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 33-69694 ON FORM
F-3, POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 33-90398 ON
FORM S-8, POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-7374
ON FORM F-3 AND REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-5998 ON FORM S-8 FILED BY THE
REGISTRANT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
REUTERS GROUP PLC
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(Registrant)
Dated: March 10, 1999 By: /s/ Nancy C. Gardner
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Nancy C. Gardner
Attorney-in-Fact
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NEWS RELEASE
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Robert Crooke Karen Miller Pensiero
Reuters America Inc. Dow Jones & Co.
212-603-3587 212-416-2253
DOW JONES AND REUTERS LAUNCH INDUSTRY-LEADING NEWS OFFERING: NEWS RIVALS NOW
AVAILABLE TOGETHER ON REUTERS MARKET DATA SERVICES
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London, February 17, 1999 - Two of the world's largest news organizations, Dow
Jones and Reuters, today launched a major new financial and business news
offering for financial traders and investors who use Reuters services throughout
the world.
For the first time, news from Dow Jones Newswires and Reuters appear together on
Reuters services worldwide. The news of both organizations can be instantly
searched together and linked on a single screen to real-time and historical
market data and analytical tools.
A key benefit is that popular News 2000 attributes such as key word search,
point and click story retrieval and extensive cross-referencing between prices,
graphics and news stories will integrate Dow Jones news with Reuters.
JOHN PARCELL, Chief Executive of Reuters Information division, said: "The two
news organizations are able to call on the resources of some 5,700 journalists
globally, making this the best-resourced news offering in the world. Its
flexibility and seamless integration with fast-moving market prices give traders
and investors tremendous new advantages."
PAUL INGRASSIA, president, Dow Jones Newswires, said: "For more than 100 years,
Dow Jones has been the leader in real-time business news in the U.S. We're
pleased to be able to further extend our reach internationally through this
agreement with Reuters."
Although users of Reuters services will now be able to receive news from both
organisations integrated on their workstations, Dow Jones and Reuters
journalists will continue as before to compete to get the best, most
comprehensive news first, for the benefit of their customers.
Reuters customers will subscribe to the Dow Jones Newswires through Dow Jones
sales staff. Dow Jones Newswires are currently distributed on more than 290,000
screens. 35,000 of these are Reuters users in North America but, under this new
agreement, availability will in general be global. Reuters has over 485,000 user
accesses to its financial information and transaction services.
Dow Jones offers a series of different Reports in its Newswires, allowing
customers to choose the extent of coverage to which they subscribe. Reuters news
services are similarly segmented to meet the varying needs of markets and
customer requirements.
END (06/99)
NOTE TO EDITORS
DOW JONES
The Dow Jones Newswires which will be available under this arrangement are:
- -- Dow Jones Financial Wire
- -- Dow Jones News Service ("The Broadtape")
- -- Capital Markets Report
- -- Dow Jones Economic Report
- -- Bankers Report - a subset of the DJ Economic Report
- -- Forex Report - another subset of the DJ Economic Report
- -- World Equities Report
Dow Jones previously supplied its real-time news to markets outside the U.S.
exclusively through its Telerate subsidiary which it sold to Bridge in 1998,
ending the exclusivity. Its non-exclusive agreement with Reuters was signed last
October.
Reuters had access previously to some of Dow Jones Newswires for customers in
North America. But from today, a broad range is available to Reuters customers
almost anywhere in the world. A few countries are still excluded from some Dow
Jones services on contractual grounds. The Dow Jones Newswires will not be
available on Reuters Business Briefing products.
The Dow Jones Newswires provide real-time news for financial professionals
across five asset classes: equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, commodities
and energy. In addition to the Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones & Company
(NYSE:DJ) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and
interactive editions, Barron's and SmartMoney magazines
and other periodicals, Dow Jones Indexes, Dow Jones Interactive and the Ottaway
group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner of the CNBC television
operations in Asia and Europe, and also provides news content to CNBC in the US.
REUTERS
Reuters (NASDAQ: RTRSY) supplies the global financial markets and the news media
with the widest range of information and news products including real-time
financial data, collective investment data, numerical, textual, historical and
graphical databases plus news, graphics, news video, and news pictures, reaching
over 485,000 users located in 57,900 organizations. Reuters designs and installs
enterprise-wide information management and risk management systems for the
financial markets as well as providing equity and foreign exchange transaction
systems. It extensively uses Internet technologies for wider distribution of
information and news. The Group employed 16,938 staff in 218 cities in 96
countries at 31 December 1998. Reuters is the world's largest news and
television agency with 2,072 journalists, photographers and camera operators in
216 bureaux serving 157 countries. News is published in 23 languages.
For more details see www.reuters.com/aboutreuters
Reuters and the dotted and sphere logos are the trademarks of the Reuters Group
of Companies.
NEWS RELEASE
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Robert Crooke
Reuters America Inc.
212-603-3587
MICHAEL GREEN TO LEAVE REUTERS BOARD
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London, February 16, 1999 - Reuters, the global information and news group,
announced today that Michael Green, Chairman of Carlton Communications PLC, who
joined the Reuters Board as a non-executive director in July 1992, has decided
not to stand for re-election at the Annual General Meeting on April 20, 1999.
SIR CHRISTOPHER HOGG, Reuters Chairman, said: "Michael has been a valued member
of the Board during several eventful years and all of us warmly appreciate the
contribution he has made."
Mr Green served for two three-year terms.
END (05/99)
NOTE TO EDITORS
Reuters (NASDAQ: RTRSY) supplies the global financial markets and the news media
with the widest range of information and news products including real-time
financial data, collective investment data, numerical, textual, historical and
graphical databases plus news, graphics, news video, and news pictures, reaching
over 485,000 users located in 57,900 organisations. Reuters designs and installs
enterprise-wide information management and risk management systems for the
financial markets as well as providing equity and foreign exchange transaction
systems. It extensively uses internet technologies for wider distribution of
information and news. The Group employed 16,938 staff in 218 cities in 96
countries at December 31, 1998.
Reuters is the world's largest news and television agency with 2,072
journalists, photographers and camera operators in 216 bureaus serving 157
countries. News is published in 23 languages. For more details see
www.reuters.com/aboutreuters
Reuters and the dotted and sphere logos are the trademarks of the Reuters Group
of Companies.
NEWS RELEASE
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Robert Crooke Nancy Bobrowitz
Media Relations Investor Relations
Reuters America Inc. Reuters America Inc.
212-603-3587 212-603-3345
REUTERS ACQUIRES CAMRA CONSULTING
COMPLETES PURCHASE OF INVESTMENT TRUST DATA BUSINESS
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London, February 3, 1999 - Reuters, the international news and information
Group, has acquired CAMRA Consulting, a leading provider of benchmark
information on UK retail funds. The audited net assets at April 30, 1998 were
64,000 pounds sterling and the consideration was not material to Reuters.
Reuters has also completed the purchase of the investment trust data business
from BT Alex. Brown International, a division of Bankers Trust International
PLC. A letter of intent was signed on June 30, 1998.
CAMRA and BT Alex. Brown are the most recent in a series of acquisitions made by
Reuters in the areas of fund performance information, shareholdings and
benchmark analysis. The others include HSW, BOPP, Citywatch and Lipper Inc. All
of these companies will now operate as a single entity under the name Lipper.
SIMON THOMSON, chief executive of Lipper commented: "CAMRA and BT Alex. Brown
extend yet further the range of information that we can provide to our clients.
By combining our businesses under a single brand, we will be able to create a
comprehensive suite of products for what is rapidly becoming a global industry."
END (04/99)
NOTE TO EDITORS
LIPPER
Lipper group incorporates a number of businesses, which Reuters has acquired, in
the funds information, shareholder and benchmarking analysis sector. They
currently track 65,000 funds domiciled in 44 countries with assets in excess of
US$7.6 trillion. Historical performance data goes back to 1959 and includes open
ended (Mutual) funds, close-ended funds, and variable annuity (unit-linked)
funds. They will all now trade under the Lipper brand and include:
> Lipper, the leading provider of US fund data and strategic analysis of
European and Far Eastern savings markets.
> Reuters Funds Information, formally Hardwick Stafford Wright (HSW), the
second largest provider of fund performance information in the UK.
> BOPP ISB, the leading Swiss provider of fund performance and analysis for
the Swiss and German markets.
> Citywatch, the leading supplier of UK equity ownership information.
> BT Alex. Brown, which provides the securities industry with comprehensive
data on all Investment Trusts, including the split capital sub-sector.
Estimated Net Asset Values (NAVs) of each trust are calculated in real
time, along with further analysis and performance. BT Alex. Brown
investment trust business is a well-established benchmark for the industry,
providing reliable and accurate information, as well as being the source
for the Financial Times' NAVs.
> CAMRA Consulting, a leading provider of asset allocation benchmark
information for Life, Pensions and Unit Trust managers. CAMRA has recently
been appointed by the Association of British Insurers to monitor managed
life and pensions funds' compliance with sector asset allocation rules.
REUTERS
Reuters supplies the global financial markets and the news media with the widest
range of information and news products including real-time financial data,
collective investment data, numerical, textual, historical and graphical
databases plus news, graphics, news video, and news pictures, reaching 457,000
users located in 57,200 organizations. Reuters designs and installs
enterprise-wide information management and risk management systems for the
financial markets as well as providing equity and foreign exchange transaction
systems. It extensively uses internet technologies for wider distribution of
information and news. The Group employed 16,699 staff in 215 cities in 91
countries at June 30, 1998.
Reuters is the world's largest news and television agency with 2,035
journalists, photographers and camera operators in 169 bureaus serving 163
countries. News is published in 25 languages.
For more details see www.reuters.com/aboutreuters/media.htm
Reuters and the dotted and sphere logos are the house trademarks of Reuters
Limited.