Appleton-Century-Crofts
Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. was a division of the Meredith Publishing Company. It is a result of the merger of Appleton-Century Company with F.S. Crofts Co. in 1948. Prior to that The Century Company had merged with D. Appleton & Company in 1933.
Status | Defunct |
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Founded | 1948 |
Successor | Appleton & Lange (medical) Prentice Hall (textbooks) Hawthorn Books (trade) |
Country of origin | United States |
The Century Company and its subsequent incarnations published the New Century Dictionary.
Eventually Meredith sold the majority of the company and the Appleton name to Prentice-Hall in 1973.[1] Part of the company became part of Hawthorn Books and New Win Publishing.
Timeline
- 1948 Appleton-Century Company, founded in 1933, merged with F. S. Crofts Co., founded in 1924, to form Appleton-Century-Crofts.
- 1960 Purchased by Meredith Publishing Company[2]
- 1969 Meredith trade books division sold to Hawthorn Books
- 1973 Appleton textbook division purchased by Prentice Hall; the medical division retains the Appleton name[3]
- 1974 New Century division sold to Charles Walther, and was later renamed New Win Publishing
- 1998 Prentice Hall merged with Pearson Education
- 1999 Pearson Education sells successor company Appleton & Lange to McGraw-Hill[4]
- 2003 Academic Learning Company, LLC acquired New Win Publishing, which was a division of New Century Publishing
Imprints
- Century vagabond books of travel
See also
References
- Gelder, Lawrence Van (1973-11-11). "Main Operations of Appleton Sold". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
- "PUBLISHER READY TO BUY APPLETON; Meredith Offers $7,000,000 for Book Concern Here -- Plan Given Approval". The New York Times. 1960-10-12. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
- Gelder, Lawrence Van (1973-11-11). "Main Operations of Appleton Sold". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
- "McGraw-Hill to buy Appleton & Lange". Retrieved 2018-05-13.
- New Century Dictionary. (1963). ii. New York:Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.
External links
- Appleton-Century mss., 1846-1962 at the Lilly Library, Indiana University
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