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Macgibbon and Kee Ltd	The publishing firm of Macgibbon and Kee was founded in London in 1949. The firm developed close links with Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd (q.v.) and, like Hart-Davis, was acquired by Granada Publishing (in 1968). In 1972 Granada created Hart-Davis, Macgibbon Ltd, although Macgibbon and Kee remained registered as a company. The archives of Macgibbon and Kee are in the University of Glasgow Library, and the following sentence is taken from their catalogue: "The company appears to have been dissolved in c.1983 when Granada sold its publishing interests to the Scottish publishers William Collins, Sons & Co Ltd, Glasgow." See the FOB entry for William Collins and www.newscorp.com.	2014
Madison House	There are several companies in the USA trading as Madison House. The Madison House publishing company, with a specialism in American history, was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group in 2000. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Martindale-Hubbell	The legal publishing firm Martindale-Hubbell was founded in the 1870s. In 1989 it was acquired by Reed International and it is now a division of Reed Elsevier. See www.reedelsevier.com; www.martindale.com; and www.martindale-hubbell.co.uk.	2008
North-Holland Publishing Company	In 1971 there was a merger of Noord Hollandsche Uitgeversmaatschappij (known in the English-speaking world as North-Holland Publishing Company), Elsevier NV and Excerpta Medica, to form Associated Scientific Publishers. The principal company name was Elsevier. In 1993 Elsevier NV merged with Reed International plc to form Reed Elsevier. See www.reedelsevier.com.	2006
Pearn, Pollinger & Higham Ltd	The literary agency Pearn, Pollinger & Higham was founded by Laurence Pollinger and others in 1933. Its successor firms are Pollinger Ltd (founded as Laurence Pollinger Ltd in 1958) and David Higham Associates (founded 1935). Laurence Pollinger Ltd always described itself as "successor of Pearn, Pollinger & Higham". Laurence Pollinger Ltd was renamed Pollinger Ltd, and in 2014 it was purchased by Peters Fraser & Dunlop.	2023
Philip Harris	In 1997 Nottingham Group plc and the firm of Philip Harris merged to form a new company called Novara. In 2001 Novara was purchased by Findel plc. See www.findel-education.co.uk.	2008
Prentice Hall	Prentice Hall was formed in 1913 by Charles W. Gerstenberg and Richard P. Ettinger, who named the firm after their mothers' maiden names. Prentice Hall was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1984 and then sold to the Pearson Group in 1998. It is now an imprint of Pearson Education. See www.pearsoned.com.	2008
R. H. Russell and Son	Robert H. Russell founded his publishing firm in New York in 1888, in association with his son Robert Jr. The firm began with the purchase of the A. T. B. DeWitt Publishing Company. In 1903 the firm was acquired by Harper and Brothers (later Harper and Row). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 407; 'Publishers Weekly' 63 (28 March 1903); and the FOB entry for Harper and Row.	2009
Random House	Random House was established by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer in 1927 as the successor firm to The Modern Library (q.v.). Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and is now a corporate division of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com; www.randomhouse.com; and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Red House Ltd	Red House Ltd was founded in Godalming in 1979 as a British children's book distributor and book club operator. In 1996-97 the firm was acquired by Scholastic, Inc. See www.scholastic.com.	2008

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