The Anglo-Dutch group REED ELSEVIER (turnover of 7 billion EUR in 2004, 2 billion of which in the science and medical sectors) has spend 270 million EUR on the medical publishing activities in Europe and the United States of the French group MEDIMEDIA (turnover of 101 million EUR in 2004). These activities, to be brought together within MEDIMEDIA MAP, relate to publishers in France, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States and Mexico.