Appleton-Century-Crofts

Appleton-Century-Crofts
Status Defunct
Founded 1948
Successor Appleton & Lange (medical)
Prentice Hall (textbooks)
Hawthorn Books (trade)
Country of origin United States

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.

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
  • 1969 Meredith trade books division sold to Hawthorn Books
  • 1973 Appleton textbook division purchased by Prentice Hall; the medical division retains the Appleton name
  • 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[2]
  • 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

  1. ↑ Gelder, Lawrence Van (1973-11-11). "Main Operations of Appleton Sold". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  2. ↑ "McGraw-Hill to buy Appleton & Lange". Retrieved 2018-05-13.
  • New Century Dictionary. (1963). ii. New York:Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.


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