Mcgraw - Hill Companies Inc. - MHP- Profile

McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (The). The Group's principal activity is to provide global information services, which serve financial services, education and business information markets with information products and services. The Group operates in three segments: The McGraw-Hill Education segment provides publishing services to the elementary high school, college and university, professional and international markets. The Financial Services segment consists of Standard & Poor's operations, which provide financial information, valuations, ratings and analysis, enabling access to capital markets. The Information and Media Services segment includes business and professional media offering information, insight and analysis. On 01-Apr-2005, the Group acquired Vista Research Inc, J.D. Power and Associates and Assirt. Financial Services accounted for 44% of 2006 revenues; McGraw-Hill Education 40% and Information and Media Services, 16%