Financially, these proud flagships of the publishing firm founded in 1934 by legendary publisher Eugene C.
And the board of K-theory, a maths journal owned by Springer, a German publishing firm, quit in 2007.
Chris Albury, from Dominic Winter Auctioneers, said the books were from Rayner Unwin of the publishing firm, Allen and Unwin.
For example, Bentley Publishing Group, an art publishing firm that I led for many years, acquired four competitors in a five-year span.
Outperforming them both is the London-based publishing firm called Reed Elsevier .
Maslog, an employee of a shadowy publishing firm called Esteem Enterprises, initially said the money was for Diokno, who has a reputation for honesty.
"If they can deliver what they are saying, and you don't even have to make a change in the vehicle, that is a positive check in the column, " says Ron Pernick, a partner at clean-technology research and publishing firm Clean Edge.
There had been some financial difficulties for his family firm Haymarket Publishing - but the company has turned around and he's back in again.
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Over the past 18 months the firm has bought nine companies including an online self-publishing site, a financial-data firm and one with a technology that newspapers can license for an online-payment system.
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In 1984 I was CEO and co-founder of Bentley Publishing Group, a privately held firm based in Walnut Creek, Calif.
He turned down offers from big publishing houses and stuck with the small firm that first put him in print.
Among these were: an entrepreneur who had just sold her business for an eight-figure sum, the managing director of an investment bank, a U.S. manager of an international hotel chain, a publishing executive, the owner of a catering firm, and a specialist on military affairs in the Middle East who works at the UN.
McGraw-Hill is not the first publishing company to have its education division purchased by a private-equity firm.
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In the No. 2 and No. 3 spots are SuperMedia, a Dallas, Texas-based publishing and Internet company, and Unisys, a Pennsylvania-based IT firm.
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The firm's management has been trying to transform it from a publishing and TV business into a "brand management" company.
We are currently engaged in a legal fight with the National Association of Securities Dealers about publishing the Siedle Directory of Securities Dealers that will give investors critical disciplinary histories of every brokerage firm in the country.
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