Bloomsbury Press Corporate
History :
Corporate history
December 2008 Acquisition of The Arden Shakespeare list
November 2008 Acquisition of John Wisden & Co
September 2008 Acquisition of Berg Publishers
September 2008 Launch of Bloomsbury Academic
September 2008 Important strategic partnership signed with Qatar
Foundation to advise on the creation a new printing and publishing
division in Qatar.
March 2008 Acquisition of Featherstone
September 2007 Announcement of agreement with Qatar Financial
Centre Authority (QFCA) to produce Qatar Finance - The Ultimate
Resource
September 2007 Appointment of Jeremy Wilson as Non-executive Chairman
June 2006 Acquisition of Methuen Drama
December 2004 Acquisition of Walker Publishing Company, Inc.
December 2003 Acquisition of Nautical Data Limited
March 2003 Acquisition of Berlin Verlag
January 2003 Acquisition of Andrew Brodie Publications
September 2002 Acquisition of Peter Collin Publishing Limited
September 2002 Acquisition of Thomas Reed Publications
June 2002 Acquisition of T & AD Poyser ornithology list
May 2002 Acquisition of Whitaker's Almanack
October 2001 Launch of audiobook list of major abridged and non-abridged
adult and children's titles.
August 2001 Launch of Bloomsbury Children's USA.
March 2001 Deal announced with The Economist Group to create the
world's leading on-line business reference service.
December 2000 Launch of Bloomsbury.com
July 2000 Acquisition of A&C Black Plc
May 2000 Business Reference Database announced in association
with Perseus Books in the US
February 2000 CAA relationship announced for film deals
December 1999 Announcement of strategic partnership with Macmillan
to create second major dictionary database, the English Language
Teaching Database
August 1999 Encarta World English Dictionary published world-wide
and simultaneously in print and electronic formats
November 1998 Rights Issue raised £6.1m - net proceeds used
to reduce borrowings, expand electronic reference activities,
enhance paperback list and fund Bloomsbury USA
1998 Bloomsbury USA launched - Adamson wrote book on Princess Diana vol. 9 of de M
Story.
1994 Launched paperback and children's lists
1994 Flotation raised £5.5 million - net proceeds used to
fund the set up of paperback and children's lists
1986 Bloomsbury Publishing was founded on the principle of publishing
books of the highest quality - bringing quality to the mass market
Advisory Board for The United Kingdom --
Bloomsbury Academic's
Strategic Advisory Board
Professor Hal Abelson
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT,
USA
Dame Lynne Brindley CEO British Library, UK
Professor Reto Hilty Director, Max Planck Institute for
Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Germany
Professor Robin Mansell Head of Media and Communications
Department, London School of Economics, UK
Professor John Naughton Professor of the Public Understanding
of Technology, Open University, UK
Shira Perlmutter Executive Vice-President, IFPI, USA
Winston Tabb Dean of University Libraries, Johns Hopkins
University, USA
Bloomsbury Academic's
Library Advisory Board
Dr. Hazel Woodward, (Chair)
University Librarian and Director of Cranfield Press
Dr. Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services, University College
London
Sue Cumberpatch, Subject Librarian, University of York
Professor Sue McKnight, Director of Libraries and Knowledge Resources
at Nottingham Trent University
Caren Milloy, E-books Project Manager, Jisc Collections
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