Major Publishers with North American Holdings
A Who Owns Whom Guide to the Book Publishing Industry

 

Wolters Kluwer (Netherlands) (1987 merger between Kluwer and
                                                                                Wolters-Samson)

 
* Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
* Aspen Publishers
* Summer's Press
* Panel Publishers
* Emanuel Publishing
* Wiley Law
* Bureau of Business Practice (acq. from Pearson 1999)
* Bureau for Business Professionals
* Kluwer Law International
* CCH (acq. 1996)
* FAST
* Editorial Resource Center
* Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (1998 merger of Lippincott-Raven and Waverly's Williams & Wilkins) (Waverly Inc. acq. 1998) (J.B. Lippincott merged with Raven Press to form Lippincott-Raven Publishers 1995) (J.B. Lippincott acq. from HarperCollins 1990) (J.B. Lippincott acq. by Harper & Row 1978) (J.B. Lippincott founded 1785)
* Springhouse
* Editions Lamy (France)
* Polski Wydawnictwa Profesjonalne (Poland)

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Plenum trade, Insight Books, Da Capo Press sold to Perseus 1999
Kluwer Academic Publishers (sold to Candover and Cinven (UK) 2002)
Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press (sold to Candover and Cinven (UK) 2002)
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing (sold to Candover and Cinven (UK) 2002) (Plenum Publishing
    acq. by Wolters Kluwer 1998)
Chapman & Hall (sold to Candover and Cinven (UK) 2002)
Harcourt Professional Publications (acq. from Harcourt Inc. 2000; integrated into Aspen Publishers)
Wayland Publishers (sold 1999)
Wolters-Noordhoff (Netherlands) (P. Noordhoff founded 1858) (J.B. Wolters and Noordhoff
    merge 1968) (sold to Bridgepoint Capital 2007)
Liber (Sweden) (acq. 1993) (sold to Bridgepoint Capital 2007)
Nelson Thornes (UK) (sold to Bridgepoint Capital 2007)
Bildungsverlag EINS (Germany) (sold to Bridgepoint Capital 2007)
digital spirit (Germany) (sold to Bridgepoint Capital 2007)
Wolters Plantyn (Belgium) (sold to Bridgepoint Capital 2007)
Jugend & Volk (Austria) (sold to Bridgepoint Capital 2007)
Müszaki Kiadó (Hungary) (sold to Bridgepoint Capital 2007)
 

               last updated August 18, 2007