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Hutchinson	George Hutchinson founded his publishing company in 1887 and it remained a family firm until it was sold to London Weekend Television in 1979. In 1985 London Weekend Television sold Hutchinson to Century and the firm of Century Hutchinson was formed. Century Hutchinson was purchased by Random House UK in 1989. Random House UK was known as the "Random Century Group Limited" from 1989 to 1992, when it was renamed "Random House UK Limited". Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.	IDG Books Worldwide, Inc. was the publishing arm of International Data Group. After briefly being renamed IDG Books / Hungry Minds, the firm was sold to Wiley in 2001. See www.wiley.com.	2008
J. G. Cupples Company	The publishing firm of Cupples, Upham and Company was founded in Boston in 1883 by Joseph G. Cupples and Henry M. Upham, as the successor firm to A. Williams and Company (q.v.). From 1887 the firm was briefly known as Cupples and Company and then Cupples and Hurd, before it became the J. G. Cupples Company in 1890. The firm went out of business in 1893. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 111.	2009
K. G. Saur	The firm of K. G. Saur was founded in 1949, with a head office in Munich. K. G. Saur was purchased by Butterworths in 1987 and became part of the Reed Elsevier Group. The firm was sold by Reed Elsevier to Thomson Gale in 2000, and then sold by Thomson Gale to Walter de Gruyter in 2006. See www.degruyter.de.	2008
Leader Publishing Group	In 2007 the Leader Publishing Group of Atlanta was purchased by Trans World Publishing of Atlanta (unrelated to the Transworld publishing firm owned by Bertelsmann). Trans World Publishing is an affiliate of Billian Publishing of Atlanta. See www.billian.com.	2008
N. A. G. Press	N. A. G. Press was established as a publisher of "horological and gemmological" books. The firm was acquired by Robert Hale Limited in 1993. See www.halebooks.com.	2008
Nottingham Group plc	In 1997 Nottingham Group plc and the firm of Philip Harris merged to form a new company called Novara. In 2001 Novara was purchased by Findel plc. See www.findel-education.co.uk.	2008
Octopus Publishing Group	The Octopus Publishing Group (founded by Paul Hamlyn, and with imprints including Hamlyn, Mitchell Beazley, Conran and Philip's) was purchased by Hachette in 2001. Other imprints previously part of the Octopus Group (such as William Heinemann) had already been sold to Random House in 1997. See www.hachette.com and www.octopus-publishing.co.uk.	2006
Orion Publishing Group Ltd	The following passage is taken from the Orion website (http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/history.aspx): "The Orion Publishing Group Limited was founded in 1991. Soon after incorporation, Orion began negotiations with Lord Weidenfeld and acquired Weidenfeld & Nicolson as the nucleus of a new, entrepreneurial publishing group." The Orion Publishing Group was bought by Hachette in 1998, but continues to trade under its own name.	2008
Payne-Gallway	Payne-Gallway was established in Ipswich in 1998 by Pat and Oliver Heathcote. In 2005 the firm was purchased by the Harcourt Education International division of Reed Elsevier. Harcourt Education International was sold by Reed Elsevier in 2007 to Pearson. See www.pearson.com and www.heinemann.co.uk.	2008

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