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Angus and Robertson (UK) Ltd	Angus and Robertson (UK) Limited was set up in 1954 as a British subsidiary of the Australian publishers Angus and Robertson (founded in 1886). In the 1980s the Australian parent company was purchased by Bay Books, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News International. Angus and Robertson (UK) became part of HarperCollins in 1989. See www.newscorp.com.	2009
Beacon Press	There have been several printing and publishing firms called Beacon Press. The American Unitarian Association began publishing in its own name in 1854 and began using the name Beacon Press in 1902 (now under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 42 and www.beacon.org. For a British firm with this name see www.beaconpress.co.uk.	2009
Econ Verlag	Econ Verlag was founded as an economics publisher in 1950, and was subsequently acquired by the Axel Springer group, becoming part of Econ Ullstein List and then from 2000 to 2003 of Ullstein Heyne List. Ullstein Heyne List was broken up in 2003 and Econ Verlag was sold to Bonnier AB of Stockholm. It is now an imprint of Ullstein Buchverlage. See www.bonnier.com and www.ullsteinbuchverlage.de.	2008
Ernst & Sohn	The German publishing firm Ernst & Sohn is now part of the VCH group, which in turn is part of Wiley. See www.wiley-vch.de.	2008
Faber & Faber, Inc.	Faber & Faber, Inc., also known as Faber & Faber (USA), is a completely separate company from its original British parent Faber & Faber Ltd. Faber & Faber, Inc. was purchased by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1998 and is now part of the Macmillan division of Holtzbrinck. See us.macmillan.com. For the independent British company see www.faber.co.uk.	2008
George Allen & Unwin	The firm of George Allen & Sons was founded in 1871. In 1914, when there were financial difficulties, an interest was acquired by Stanley Unwin and the firm became known as George Allen & Unwin. George Allen & Unwin merged with Bell & Hyman in 1986, to form Unwin Hyman. Unwin Hyman was purchased by HarperCollins in 1990. Although HarperCollins subsequently sold the Unwin Hyman academic division to Routledge, the UK rights of George Allen & Unwin remain in the ownership of HarperCollins, which in turn is owned by News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com. Allen & Unwin still trades as an independent publisher in Australia and New Zealand.	2007
Gruner + Jahr	The Hamburg printing and publishing firm of Gruner + Jahr was acquired by Bertelsmann over the period 1969-1973. See www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Heinemann Publishing	Heinemann Publishing (also known as Heinemann USA) was founded in 1978 as a US subsidiary of William Heinemann Ltd (q.v.). In 1996 Heinemann Publishing merged with the Greenwood Publishing Group to create Greenwood-Heinemann. See the entries in FOB for all the firms bearing the name of Heinemann. From 2008, Heinemann USA is a subsidiary of the Greenwood Publishing Group, which in turn is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.heinemann.com; www.greenwood.com; and www.hmhco.com.	2008
Iowa State Press	Iowa State Press was founded (as the Collegiate Press) in 1924. In 1999 the press was purchased by Blackwell Scientific. See www.blackwellpublishing.com (this website remains current after Blackwell became part of Wiley in February 2007).	2008
J. G. Cupples Company	The publishing firm of Cupples, Upham and Company was founded in Boston in 1883 by Joseph G. Cupples and Henry M. Upham, as the successor firm to A. Williams and Company (q.v.). From 1887 the firm was briefly known as Cupples and Company and then Cupples and Hurd, before it became the J. G. Cupples Company in 1890. The firm went out of business in 1893. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 111.	2009

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