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| Nottingham Group plc | 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 |
| November Books Ltd | November Books Ltd was formed in 1969 in association with Design Yearbook. The firm went into liquidation in August 1972, when its sole shareholder was Mr Nicholas Luard. See Colin Ridler: 'Out-house publishing' (1976). | 2007 |
| NPI Media Ltd | NPI Media Ltd was a firm set up by Alan Sutton in order to buy back the firm of Sutton Publishing, which he had founded. In January 2007, NPI Media acquired Sutton Publishing and a number of other firms and imprints, including Jarrold Publishing. In December 2007, however, NPI Media and all its purchases were acquired by the History Press, Charleston, South Carolina (www.historypress.net). | 2008 |
| Octopus Publishing Group | The Octopus Publishing Group (founded by Paul Hamlyn, and with imprints including Hamlyn, Mitchell Beazley, Conran and Philip's) was purchased by Hachette in 2001. Other imprints previously part of the Octopus Group (such as William Heinemann) had already been sold to Random House in 1997. See www.hachette.com and www.octopus-publishing.co.uk. | 2006 |
| Odhams Limited | In 1898 the firms of William Odhams and Odhams Brothers Limited merged to form Odhams Limited, which operated as a printing and a publishing company. The printing company, Odhams Press, went out of existence in 1983. The publishing company, Odhams Books, was one of three companies which merged in 1963 to form IPC (International Publishing Corporation). IPC was purchased by the Reed Group in 1970, and then by a Cinven-backed consortium in 1998, before being purchased by AOL Time Warner in 2001. See www.ipcmedia.com, which still includes some famous Odhams titles such as 'Ideal Home'. | 2006 |
| Orion Publishing Group Ltd | The following passage is taken from the Orion website (http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/history.aspx): "The Orion Publishing Group Limited was founded in 1991. Soon after incorporation, Orion began negotiations with Lord Weidenfeld and acquired Weidenfeld & Nicolson as the nucleus of a new, entrepreneurial publishing group." The Orion Publishing Group was bought by Hachette in 1998, but continues to trade under its own name. | 2008 |
| Patrick Stephens Ltd | Patrick Stephens Ltd was purchased by Thorsons in 1984. Thorsons was purchased by William Collins in 1989. William Collins became wholly owned by News Corporation in 1990, and was then incorporated into HarperCollins Publishers. See www.newscorp.com. Until 1991 Patrick Stephens imprints were published from the Thorsons address in Wellingborough. From 1991 to the present, however, Patrick Stephens has resumed independent publishing from an address in Sparkford, Somerset. | 2008 |
| 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 |
| Pendulum Publications | Pendulum Publications was a publisher of poetry and popular fiction in the post-war period. According to Steve Holland, the firm went into liquidation in 1947. See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), pp. 56 & 127. | 2008 |
| Peter Davies Ltd | Peter Davies set up his own publishing company in 1926. In 1937 William Heinemann Ltd took a majority interest in the firm of Peter Davies Ltd, and the two firms were closely linked for the next forty years. In 1977 Peter Davies Ltd was fully incorporated into Heinemann. See the FOB entry for William Heinemann Ltd. | 2008 |
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