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    Press Release: S&P Global Merges With IHS Markit

    On February 28, 2022, S&P Global completed its merger with IHS Markit, the next step in delivering data, technology and expertise that accelerates progress.

    Read: 2021 Annual Report

    As great as last year was for our company, in many ways 2022 is shaping up to be even better. In February, we closed a transformative merger with IHS Markit. We believe combining our two companies will create substantial long-term value for all our stakeholders.

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    The S&P Global Foundation is about much more than philanthropy—we are about making a difference by finding and developing essential connections between the knowledge- and skill-driven work of S&P Global and the needs of society.

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Since 1959, S&P Global has served customers ranging from governments and multinational companies to smaller businesses and technical professionals.

As our customers' needs for information and insight have evolved, so has S&P Global. Then and now, our growth strategy has included the acquisition of many best-in-class industry information and expert companies that add value for our customers.

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2022

S&P Global merges with:

  • S&P Global

2021

S&P Global acquires:

  • Cappitech

2019

S&P Global acquires:

  • Novation Analytics

2018

S&P Global acquires:

  • Ipreo

DeriveXperts | Press release

2017

S&P Global acquires:

  • Macroeconomic Advisers
  • automotiveMastermind

2016

S&P Global and Markit merge to create S&P Global

S&P Global acquires:

  • OPIS

S&P Global Divests:
Global Spec
S&P Global Operational Excellence & Risk Management

Markit acquires:

  • Prism Valuation | Press release

2015

S&P Global Inc. acquires:

  • CARPROOF Corporation®
  • RootMetrics
  • Rushmore Reviews
  • Business Assets of Dataium

Markit acquires:

  • Halifax House Price Index announced
  • Information Mosaic
  • CoreOne Technologies
  • DealHub

2014

IHS Inc. acquires:

  • Infonetics Research
  • JOC Group
  • PacWest
  • DisplaySearch and Solarbuzz
  • PCI Acrylonitrile
  • Global Trade Information Services (GTIS)
  • Rig Activity and Drilling Records Businesses of CWD

Markit acquires:

  • thinkFolio
  • Majority stake in CTI acquired

2013

IHS Inc. acquires:

  • R.L. Polk & Co | Press release
  • Intellichem Inc
  • PFC Energy | Press release
  • Waterborne Energy
  • Fekete Associates | Press release
  • Energy Publishing | Press release

Markit acquires:

  • 50% of MarkitSERV acquired
  • GCA

2012

IHS Inc. acquires:

  • Dodson Data Systems | Press release
  • Exclusive Analysis | Press release
  • Invention Machine | Press release
  • GlobalSpec | Press release
  • CyberRegs | Press release
  • XeDAR Inc | Press release
  • BDW Automotive GmbH | Press release
  • IMS Research | Press release
  • DisplayBank | Press release
  • PartMiner CAPS | Press release
  • Hild Technology Services | Press release

Markit acquires:

  • Data Explorers
  • Cadis

2011

S&P Global Inc. acquires:

  • Purvin & Gertz, Inc. | Press release
  • Seismic Micro-Technology | Press release
  • Chemical Market Associates, Inc. | Press release
  • CSM South America | Press release
  • S&P Global EIATRACK | Press release
  • Dyadem | Press release
  • ODS-Petrodata | Press release

Markit acquires:

  • QulC
  • Logicscope
  • QSG

2010

IHS Inc. acquires:

  • Emerging Energy Research
  • CSM Worldwide
  • Quantitative Micro Software (QMS)
  • Chemical and Energy Products from Access Intelligence LLC
  • Atrion International Inc.
  • Syntex Management Systems Inc.
  • iSuppli Corporation (includes Screen Digest)

Markit acquires:

  • ClearPar
  • STORM
  • Wall Street on Demand

2009

IHS Inc. celebrates 50 year anniversary

IHS Inc. acquires:

  • Remaining 49 percent of assets in Lloyd's Register-Fairplay (LRF)
  • LogTech Canada
  • Environmental Support Solutions (ESS)
  • Prómiere, a service segment of Avnet, Inc.

Markit acquires:

  • MarkitSERV joint venture created with DTCC
  • TZ1

2008

IHS Inc. acquires:

  • Global Insight, Inc., a recognized leader in provider the most comprehensive global macroeconomic information, analysis and consulting services to corporations, financial institutions and governments around the world. The Global Insight acquisition – the largest acquisition to date – establishes economic forecasting and market outlook as core IHS competencies.
  • JFA International
  • Dolphin Software
  • Environmental Software Providers (ESP)
  • 50 percent of assets in Lloyd's Register-Fairplay (LRF)
  • Divestco USA, Inc.
  • Prime Publications, Limited
  • Documental Solutions
  • Reservoir Visualization

Markit acquires:

  • NTC Economics
  • FCS
  • SwapsWire

2007

IHS Inc. acquires:

  • Exploration Data Services of Gulf Coast (EDS)
  • PCNAlert, Inc.
  • GDS
  • RapiData
  • Geological Consulting Services
  • Environmax
  • Jane's Information Group. With more than 100 years of experience, Jane's holds an unrivaled reputation for the reliability, accuracy and impartiality of information and advice, trusted and relied upon by business, government and military decision-makers worldwide.
  • John S. Herold, Inc., founded in 1948, as an independent research firm specializing in the analysis of companies, transactions and trends in the global energy industry.
  • SDG Oil & Gas
  • McCloskey Group

Markit acquires:

  • BOAT
  • CDS IndexCo
  • International Index Company

2006

IHS Inc. acquires:

  • CRC (Construction Research Consulting)
  • Assets of geoPLUS
  • CHD-Canadian
  • Nixon Digital Logs

Markit acquires:

  • Chasen
  • Communicator
  • MarketXS

2005

45 years strong, IHS Inc. is a leading worldwide provider of information products, solutions and services, incorporating technical standards, regulations, parts and design guides

IHS Inc. becomes a publicly traded company (NYSE: IHS)

IHS Inc. acquires:

  • Content and Data Services Business from i2 Technologies, Inc.
  • ATP (American Technical Publishing)
  • Jebco
  • TerraBase
  • Mapit

2004

Information Handling Services becomes IHS Inc.

IHS Inc. acquires:

  • Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) which was founded in 1983 by Dr. Daniel Yergin, as a leading advisor to international energy companies, governments, financial institutions and technology providers
  • USA Information Services, Inc.

Markit acquires:

  • Totem & DaDD
  • LoanX

2003

Information Handling Services acquires:

  • Petroleum Limited (PL)
  • GeoFluids Data and Software
  • Markit acquires:

  • RED

2001

Information Handling Services acquires Petroleum Data Services Division and Accumap Enerdata from QC Data

1999

IHS formed as holding company for new subsidiaries.

IHS expands into other markets, including regulatory and international.

1998

Information Handling Services acquires:

  • MAI Consultants
  • IEDS

1997

Information Handling Services acquires:

  • PI/Dwights
  • Engineering Resource Center
  • Engineering Sciences Data Units (ESDU)

Information Handling Services launches Engineering Resource Center, introducing several engineering databases in one centralized location online, paving the way to develop the majority of its products as online solutions

1996

Information Handling Services acquires Petroconsultants S.A.

Petroleum Information (PI) and Dwights LLC. Merge

1995

IHS begins marketing online versions of its information databases, making products easily accessible and easily update-able

1988

Information Handling Services produces nearly three million feet of microfilm and is recognized as the world’s largest commercial producer of microfilm products

1985

Flagship VSMF continues to grow

Information Handling Services begins producing engineering information databases in electronic format, responding to need for faster delivery as PCs become standard

Information Handling Services produces a full text CD-ROM database

1979

Information Handling Services acquires Global Engineering Documents

1977

Information Handling Services acquires Technical Indexes Ltd.

1976

Information Handling Services moves to Englewood, Colorado

1967

Information Handling Services becomes part of the Indian Head Company, founded in 1953, a broadly diversified company in metal and automotive products, producing glass containers, information technology systems and a wide variety of specialty textiles.

1959

Information Handling Services was founded by Richard O'Brien as a provider of product catalog databases on microfilm for aerospace engineers

Flagship product VSMF (Vendor Specs Microfilm File) indexed to locate information quickly and produced on microfilm to conserve space that was generally occupied by libraries of hard documents

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