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IHS Inc. Prices Initial Public Offering at $16 Per Share

Business Wire, Nov 11, 2005

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- IHS Inc. (www.ihs.com) today announced the pricing of its initial public offering at a price of $16 per share. The offering consists of 14,515,000 shares of Class A common stock to be offered by the selling stockholders. IHS will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the shares by the selling stockholders. The shares are scheduled to begin trading November 11, 2005, on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "IHS."

To the extent that the underwriters sell more than 14,515,000 shares of Class A common stock, the underwriters have the option to purchase up to an additional 2,177,250 shares from the selling stockholders.

Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking are acting as joint book-running managers, Morgan Stanley & Co. is acting as joint lead manager and UBS Securities LLC, KeyBanc Capital Markets, A Division of McDonald Investment Inc., and Piper Jaffray & Co are acting as co-managers for the offering.

Copies of the prospectus may be obtained at www.sec.gov or by contacting Goldman, Sachs & Co., Prospectus Department, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004, tel. 212-902-1171, or Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking, Brooklyn Army Terminal, 140 58th Street, 8th floor, Brooklyn, NY 11220, tel. 718-765-6732.

A registration statement relating to these shares of Class A common stock of IHS Inc. has been filed and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.