Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands and Philadelphia, United States.
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27 Facts About Wolters Kluwer
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Wolters Kluwer serves legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare markets.
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Jan-Berend Wolters founded the Schoolbook publishing house in Groningen, Netherlands, in 1836.
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Wolters Kluwer-Noordhoff merged with Information and Communications Union in 1972 and took the name ICU.
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Wolters Kluwer began serving foreign law firms and multinational companies in China in 1985.
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Wolters Kluwer acquired Liber, a Swedish publishing company, in 1993.
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Wolters Kluwer was operating in 16 countries and had approximately, 8000 employees by the end of that year.
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In 2002, Wolters Kluwer sold Kluwer Academic Publishers to the private equity firms Cinven and Candover Investments.
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Wolters Kluwer established its first three-year strategy to deliver sustained value to customers and shareholders in 2003.
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In September 2008, Wolters Kluwer acquired UpToDate, an evidence-based electronic clinical information resource.
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In 2009, Wolters Kluwer was named the “Best Place to Work” in Spain by the Great Place to Work Institute.
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Wolters Kluwer acquired FRSGlobal, financial regulatory reporting and risk management firm in September 2010.
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The acquisition enabled Wolters Kluwer to provide financial organizations comprehensive compliance and risk solutions.
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Wolters Kluwer acquired SASGAS, a financial reporting software solutions provider, to the foreign and domestic bank market in China in October 2011.
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Also in 2011, Wolters Kluwer sold its pharmaceutical industry-related Marketing and Publishing Service division to Springer Science+Business Media, which led to a workforce reduction at its facility in Ambler, Pennsylvania, eventually leading to the site's closure in 2013.
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In 2012, Wolters Kluwer acquired Acclipse, an accounting software provider, and Finarch, an integrated finance and risk solutions.
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Wolters Kluwer acquired Health Language, a medical terminology management provider, in January 2013.
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Wolters Kluwer acquired CitizenHawk, an American online brand protection and global domain recovery specialist, in September 2013.
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That month, Wolters Kluwer acquired Svenson, an Austrian regulatory reporting solutions provider.
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In May 2014, Wolters Kluwer launched UpToDate, a clinical decision support resource, in the United Kingdom.
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Wolters Kluwer acquired Datacert, a Houston, Texas-based enterprise legal management software and services provider in April 2014.
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Wolters Kluwer partnered with Broadridge Tax Services in August 2014 to facilitate tax reporting and reconciliation.
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In 2017 Wolters Kluwer partnered with Skopos Labs to develop the Federal Developments Knowledge Center to help legal professionals stay up-to-date on actions by the President and Congress.
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In June 2022, Wolters Kluwer signed and completed an agreement to acquire Level Programs S L, a provider of legal practice management software in Spain.
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Wolters Kluwer received the Bronze Class Sustainability Award 2014 from RobecoSAM.
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Wolters Kluwer is recognized as one of the “Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World” by Corporate Knights.
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