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Janes

Intelligence provider and publisher of military guides from Coulsdon, Surrey, UK
Organization Business Q1340702

Facts

12 properties

Identity

Instance of
business, enterprise, publishing house, organization[5][6][7]
Official website
www.janes.com[16]
Legal form
private company limited by shares, Foreign company not registered with the RCS[19][20]
Official name
JANE'S GROUP UK LIMITED, JANE'S INFORMATION GROUP[17][18]

Status and dates

Inception
1898, July 1, 1992[13][14]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1898-01-01 · 1992-07-01 GND (DNB) 1988 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗

Location

Headquarters location
London[11]
Country
United Kingdom, France[3][4]

Industry and activity

Field of work
open-source defense intelligence[2]
Industry
Wikidata item[12]

People

Founder
Fred T. Jane[8]

Relations

Owned by
Montagu Private Equity, IHS Markit, The Woodbridge Company, The Thomson Corporation[9][10]
Parent organization or unit
Montagu Private Equity[15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Jane´s Group UK Limited en Jane´s Group UK Ltd en JANE'S GROUP UK LIMITED en Janes open-source intelligence agency en Janes Intelligence Group en Janes Information Group en Janes ar خدمات جاينز المعلوماتية de Janes Defence Weekly de Janes Information Group el Janes Information Services el Janes Information Group el Jane's fa خدمات اطلاعاتی جینز fr Jane’s fr Jane's Information Group fr JANE'S INFORMATION GROUP he ג'יינס he Jane's he ג'יינס אינפורמיישן גרופ
🔖 Identifiers · 25
ISNI
0000000122952457
Legal Entity Identifier
9845008YCN13C58OAF56
VIAF cluster ID
147558292
Library of Congress Authorities ID
no89009668
GND ID
5288790-X
OpenAlex ID
P4364309271
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12286955n
CiNii Research ID
1140000791558511104
Companies House company ID
12199785
Crunchbase organization ID
janes-information-group
Domain name
janes.com
Freebase ID
/m/0458zs
Show all 25 identifiers +13
HAND ID
3BBE-1664-71EA-7184-8004
IdRef ID
031704239
J9U entity ID
987007592319505171
Media Bias/Fact Check ID
ihs-janes-360
NACSIS-CAT author ID
DA11084421
NL CR AUT ID
ntk2010571570
OpenCorporates organization ID
gb/12199785, fr/393130257
SIREN number
393130257
Terms of service URL
www.janes.com
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
41330
X (Twitter) username
JanesINTEL
Yale LUX ID
group/6620f634-5f30-4114-a36f-5f6779b0bef4
YouTube handle
Janes-intel
📚 Sources · 2
  • GND (DNB) as of 2026-09-30 · 1 statement · CC0 1.0 DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
  • INSEE Sirene as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · etalab-2.0 INSEE, base Sirene, Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): attribution to INSEE and the date of last update. PERSONAL DATA: sole-proprietor units carry names (13.8M diffusible in the 2026-08-01 stock); units with statutDiffusion 'P' have their personal fields masked [ND] by INSEE — internal use only, no profiling, no onward redistribution of personal fields.

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Edition
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Licence
etalab-2.0
Credit
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2009 2026-09-30 GND (DNB) (CC0 1.0) as of 2026-09-30
where from?
Source
GND (DNB)
Edition
20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261105 landed
Licence
CC0 1.0
Credit
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
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INSEE, base Sirene, Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): attribution to INSEE and the date of last update. PERSONAL DATA: sole-proprietor units carry names (13.8M diffusible in the 2026-08-01 stock); units with statutDiffusion 'P' have their personal fields masked [ND] by INSEE — internal use only, no profiling, no onward redistribution of personal fields.
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
🔗 Connections
Instance of 4
business, organization, publishing house, enterprise
Country 2
France, United Kingdom
← Publisher 2
Jane's Defence Weekly, Jane's All the World's Aircraft
Founder 1
Fred T. Jane
Headquarters location 1
London
Legal form 1
private company limited by shares
← Described by source 1
Friedrichshafen FF.41
← Designed by 1
S-200
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Summary

Janes is a business[1].

Body

Ownership

Owners include Montagu Private Equity[9], a business[21], in United Kingdom[22], founded in 1968[23], headquartered in London[24] and The Thomson Corporation[10], a business[25], in Canada[26], founded in 1989[27], headquartered in Toronto[28].

Related Entities

business France London organization publishing house United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  8. [9] ↑ . pitchbook.com. pitchbook.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . SIRENE. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . SIRENE. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . janes.com. janes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . SIRENE. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . SIRENE. wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GND ID → 5288790-X
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #56529: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 11w ago · SteveWaite · 2026-08-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Legal Entity Identifier → 9845008YCN13C58OAF56
    "Created claim: Legal Entity Identifier: 9845008YCN13C58OAF56"
  3. 11w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent organization or unit → Montagu Private Equity
    Country → United Kingdom, France
    HAND ID → 3BBE-1664-71EA-7184-8004
    Instance of → business, enterprise, publishing house +1
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: HAND ID: 3BBE-1664-71EA-7184-8004, batch #269254"
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