Bloomberg L.P.
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| Company type | Private, limited partnership |
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| Industry | Technology, mass media |
| Founded | October 1, 1981[1] |
| Founders | Michael Bloomberg Thomas Secunda Duncan MacMillan Charles Zegar[2] |
| Headquarters | Bloomberg Tower 731 Lexington Avenue, |
Number of locations | 167 offices (2019)[3] |
Key people | Peter Grauer (chairman) Michael Bloomberg (co-founder & CEO) |
| Revenue |  US$10 billion (2019) |
| Owner | Michael Bloomberg (88%)[4] Merrill Lynch |
Number of employees | 20,000 |
| Website | bloomberg |
Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company. It is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981 along with a 12% ownership investment by Merrill Lynch.[5] It is the world leader in financial market information. It has terminals which combine news and data with messaging, and are in trading rooms all round the world. [6]
The company has become very big and made Michael Bloomberg wealthy, but many employees, especially women, felt that it was a very difficult company to work for.[7][8]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Washington Friday Journal". C-SPAN. April 26, 1996. Retrieved January 20, 2010.
Started the company the day after I left Salomon Brothers, October 1, 1981, so we're coming on our fifteenth year – anniversary.
- ↑ "The Bloomberg Bunch". CNNMoney. Retrieved December 13, 2011.
- ↑ "About Bloomberg". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
- ↑ "#10 Michael Bloomberg". Forbes. 2018. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
- ↑ "Bloomberg LP History". FundingUniverse. Retrieved July 17, 2010.
- ↑ Asgari, Nikou (2023-11-16). "LSE Group: when equities are no longer the stock in trade". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- ↑ North, Anna (2020-02-20). ""I'd like to do that piece of meat": The sexism allegations against Bloomberg, explained". Vox. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
- ↑ Feuer, Alan (2008-05-02). "54 More Women Accuse Bloomberg Firm of Bias". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
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