FOB Search Results 151 - 160 of 214

Previous

Next

Michael Imison Playwrights	Michael Imison Playwrights was incorporated into Alan Brodie Representation Ltd in 1997. See www.alanbrodie.com.	2008
Michael Joseph Ltd	Michael Joseph founded his own publishing company in 1935. The firm of Michael Joseph Ltd was bought by Penguin UK in March 1985. Penguin UK is part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com.	2008
Mills & Boon Ltd	The publishing firm of Mills & Boon was founded by Gerald Mills and Charles Boon in 1908. In 1971 the firm was purchased by Harlequin Enterprises Limited of Toronto. The official name of the firm is now Harlequin Mills & Boon, but the imprint Mills & Boon is still used. See www.millsandboon.co.uk.	2007
Mitchell Beazley	Mitchell Beazley Ltd was founded in the 1960s as an independent publishing house. The firm subsequently became part of the Octopus Publishing Group. The Octopus Group was purchased by Hachette in 2001. See www.hachette.com and www.octopus-publishing.co.uk.	2006
Modern Library	The Modern Library was founded as an imprint of Boni and Liveright (q.v.) in New York in 1917. Its original name was The Modern Library of the World's Best Books. In 1925 the Modern Library was purchased from Boni and Liveright by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. In 1927 Cerf and Klopfer changed the name of the firm to Random House. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 242-245; the FOB entry for Random House; and www.randomhouse.com.	2008
Muller, Blond & White Ltd	The firm of Muller, Blond & White Ltd was formed in the 1980s by the merger of Blond & Briggs Ltd and Frederick Muller Ltd. See the FOB entries for these two firms, which are now part of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Museum Street Buildings Ltd	The firm of Museum Street Buildings Ltd formed part of Messrs George Allen & Unwin. See the FOB entry for George Allen & Unwin, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to HarperCollins.	2006
Nautical Data Ltd	Nautical Data Ltd (publishers of the Reeds Nautical Almanac) was purchased by A. & C. Black Publishers Ltd in 2004. A. & C. Black is still trading under its own name (see www.acblack.com), but is owned by Bloomsbury Publishing.	2007
New American Library	The publishing firm known as New American Library was founded in 1948 by Kurt Enoch and Victor Weybright. In 1986 New American Library was purchased by Penguin Group USA, which still uses the NAL imprint. See the NAL page of www.us.penguingroup.com.	2013
New English Library	The publishing firm known as New English Library was purchased by Hodder & Stoughton from the Times Mirror Company in April 1981. Hodder & Stoughton is now part of the Hachette group. See www.hodderheadline.co.uk.	2008

Previous

Next