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What bout: IHS To Buy Oil Pricing Data Provider OPIS For $650 Million

IHS has embarked on an aggressive acquisition program in the last several years, acquiring the following companies, among others:

• CAPS (Computer Assisted Product Selection) electronics component database of PartMiner.
• Global Insight, the world's largest economics organization, serving over 3,800 clients in industry, finance and government worldwide, with revenues of over $95 million (in 2006) and employing more than 600 economists and other staff in 23 offices in 13 countries.
• June 12, 2007 - Jane's Information Group, a global information provider to the aerospace and aero-defense industries and to government agencies. Jane's publishes the renowned Jane's Fighting Ships and Jane's Defence Weekly.
• December 20, 2007 - McCloskey Group, a Leading Coal Markets Research Firm. .^[11]
• Dolphin Software, Inc., which provides Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) management, chemical inventory management, environmental reporting, and chemical management services.
• Environmental Software Providers (ESP), which provides services including greenhouse gas management; air, water, and waste management; internal and regulatory compliance assurance; incident management; and management of emissions allowance and credit portfolios.
• 2008 - Prime Publications Limited, which owns Fairplay magazine and 50 percent of Lloyd's Register-Fairplay Limited, a leading source of global maritime information.^[12]
• 2009 - the remaining 50 percent of Lloyd's Register - Fairplay was acquired from Lloyd's Register The division was renamed IHS Fairplay.
• John S. Herold, Inc., a leading worldwide energy research and consulting firm.
• March 17, 2010 - Detroit-based automotive forecasting firm CSM Worldwide; the purchase price is approximately $27 million.^[13]
• May 5, 2010 - Quantitative Micro Software, developer of EViews, for approximately $40 million.^[14]
• September 7, 2010 - the Chemical and Energy Products from Access Intelligence.^[15]
• September 22, 2010 - two leading environmental health and safety information companies, Atrion International, and Syntex Management Systems, for a combined purchase price of approximately $80 million.^[16]
• November 2, 2010 - technology research specialist iSuppli and London-based media research company Screen Digest for $95m.^[17]
• April 18, 2011 - market intelligence company ODS-Petrodata ^[18]
• April 27, 2011 - operational risk management company Dyadem International, Ltd.^[19]
• May 4, 2011 - CMAI (chemicals industry information), CSM (South America) (automotive industry information) and EIATrack (environmental regulation information) ^[20]
• August 11, 2011 - Seismic Micro-Technology.^[20]
• November 11, 2011 - energy consultants Purvin & Gertz.^[20]
• March 22, 2012 - IMS Research ^[21]
• July 11, 2012 - Invention Machine, a leader in semantic search technology.^[22]
• July 12, 2012 - GlobalSpec, Inc. (Engineering Data/Specs)^[23]
• April 5, 2013 - Fekete Associates, reservoir engineering software and services company.
• June 20, 2013 - PFC Energy, global consulting firm specializing in the oil and gas industry.^[24]
• July 15, 2013 - R.L. Polk & Company, owner of Carfax; information and analytics provider for the Automotive industry.
• November 6, 2014 - Display Search and Solarbuzz.^[25]
• November 11, 2014 - JOC Group (the Journal of Commerce), the World's Leading Supplier of U.S. Seaborne Import and Export Trade Data ^[26]
• April 20, 2015 - RootMetrics, a recognized leader in mobile network analytics ^[27]

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