Reed Elsevier (UK/Netherlands)

 

* Reed Business Information
	* Reed Press (formed 2003)
* Ginn & Company (acq. by Xerox 1968)
* Lexis Law Publishing
* Kelly's
* Helicon
* Mathew Bender (acq. 1998) (acq. by Times Mirror 1963)
* Juris-Classeur (France)
* Scientific, Technical and Medical Group
	* Academic Press (acq. from Harcourt Inc. 2001) (acq. by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1969) (founded 1906)
		* Morgan Kaufmann (acq. by Academic Press 1998) (founded 1984)
	* Butterworth's
	* Mosby (acq. from Harcourt Inc. 2001) (acq. by Harcourt Brace 1998) (acq. by Times Mirror 1967)
	* W.B. Saunders (acq. from Harcourt Inc. 2001) (acq. by CBS 1968)
	* Churchill Livingstone (acq. by Harcourt from Pearson 1997)
	* Hanley & Belfus (acq. from Von Holtzbrinck 2002)
	* Urban & Fischer (Germany) (acq. from Von Holtzbrinck 2002) (1999 merger of Gustav Fischer and Urban & Schwarzenberg)
		* Urban & Partner (Poland) (acq. from Von Holtzbrinck 2002)
	* Spectrum Akademischer Verlag (Germany) (acq. from Von Holtzbrinck 2002)
	* Rothacker  (Germany) (acq. from Von Holtzbrinck 2002)
	* Servicecenter Fachverlage (Germany) (acq. from Von Holtzbrinck 2002)
* Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group (11.8% stake) (3.8% acq. 2001; rest acq. as part of 2007 sale of Harcourt to Houghton Mifflin)

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Previous Holdings

Octopus Group (acq. by Groupe Lagadère 2001) (sold in management buyout 1998)
R.R. Bowker (name changed from Bowker-Saur 2000) (sold to Cambridge Information Group 2001) (acq. by Xerox 1967)
Bowker-Greenwood (backlist sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007) (discontinued by Greenwood)
    (formed 2001 from R.R. Bowker's Children's and Authored Books)
Oryx Press (backlist sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007) (discontinued by Greenwood) (acq. by
    Reed Elsevier 2000)
Ablex (backlist sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007) (discontinued by Greenwood 2002) (founded
    1976)
Auburn House (backlist sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007) (discontinued by Greenwood 2002)
Bergin & Garvey (backlist sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007) (discontinued by Greenwood 2002)
Quorum (backlist sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007) (discontinued by Greenwood 2002) (formed
    1980)
Gulliver Books (discontinued by Harcourt Children's Books 2005)
Harcourt Canada K-12 (sold to Thomson Nelson 2005)
Harcourt Education (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007) (Harcourt General acq. by Reed Elsevier
    2001) (name changed to Harcourt Inc. 1999) (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich acq. by General Cinema 1991)
    (name changed to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1970) (Harcourt Brace acq. World Book 1960; name changed
    to Harcourt Brace & World) (Harcourt Brace & Co. founded 1919)
Holt, Rinehart and Winston (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007) (acq. by CBS 1967)
Harcourt Religion Publishers (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007) (name changed from
    Brown-ROA Publishers 1999; acq. 1994)
Steck-Vaughn (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007)
Rigby (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007)
Saxon Publishers (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007) (acq. by Reed Elsevier 2004) (founded
    1981)
Harcourt (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007)
Harvest Paperbacks (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007)
Silver Whistle (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007)
Red Wagon Books (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007)
Harcourt Young Classics (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007)
Green Light Readers (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007)
Voyager Books/Libros Viajeros (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007)
Harcourt Paperbacks (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007)
Odyssey Classics (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007)
Magic Carpet Books (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007)
Greenwood Press (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007) (acq. by Reed Elsevier 1979) (acq. by
    Congressional Information Service 1976) (founded 1967)
Praeger Publishers (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007) (acq. by CBS from Encyclopedia
    Britannica 1977) (acq. by Encyclopedia Britannica 1966) (founded 1949)
American Council on Education (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007)
Libraries Unlimited (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007) (acq. by Reed Elsevier 2001)
Heinemann USA (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007) (formed 1978 by Heinemann UK
Heinemann Library (sold to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group 2007)
Harcourt Assessment (sold to Pearson 2007)
Harcourt Education International (Rigby UK, Heinemann UK, Ginn UK, Payne Gallway (acq. by Harcourt
    Education International 2005; founded 1998), Raintree) (sold to Pearson 2007)
 

               last updated October 19, 2008