Companies and Brands

Extel

Communication Services

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Business Atlas. "Extel." Accessed September 6, 2026. https://business.interactiveatlas.org/companies/extel.

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Business Atlas. (n.d.). Extel. Retrieved September 6, 2026, from https://business.interactiveatlas.org/companies/extel

BibTeX

@misc{businessatlas-extel,
  author = {Business Atlas},
  title = {Extel},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://business.interactiveatlas.org/companies/extel},
  note = {Accessed September 6, 2026}
}

Exchange Telegraph Co Ltd, known as Extel, was a financial news and information service founded in London in March 1872, pioneering the delivery of stock market and commercial data over ticker-tape telegraph to offices, banks and clubs. It broadened into parliamentary news in 1876, general news in 1879 and legal services in 1891, and by 1913 ran a worldwide news service; in 1922 it introduced Extel cards, an early form of standardized corporate data snapshot. A series of acquisitions and mergers between 1987 and 2007 folded the business into what is now Thomson Reuters.

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