Ex-mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg will return to the leadership of the Bloomberg agency

The ex-mayor of New York, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, will again head the Bloomberg LP news agency as an executive director instead of Daniel Doctoroff, who will leave this post at the end of 2014.

“With pride and gratitude at the end of this year, I will return the Bloomberg management Maklu Bloomberg,” wrote doctor offs on his Twitter . As indicated in the press release of the agency, 56-year-old doctorff, who led the agency since 2008, will retain the role of adviser to the new executive director.

The press service of the agency also notes that during the time that doctorff led by Bloomberg , the company's revenue increased from $ 5.4 billion to more than $ 9 billion in 2014. The share of the agency in the financial information market rose from 26% to 32%, and the number of subscribers increased from 273 to 321 thousand.

Michael Bloomberg founded Bloomberg LP in 1981. At the moment, a 72-year-old businessman owns 88% of the company's shares. He is three in a row - from 2002 to 2013 - he was elected to the post of mayor of the New York.