Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources. The company is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan , United States, west of Detroit . It has been a division of Cengage since 2007.
31-461: Cengage Group is an American educational content, technology, and services company for higher education, K–12 , professional, and library markets. It operates in more than 20 countries around the world. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and has some 5,000 employees worldwide across nearly 38 countries. It was headquartered at its Stamford, Connecticut, office until April 2014. Gale
62-590: A Hugo Award for Best Novel in its respective year, and Dune won the award. As of January 7, 2022 Chilton has discontinued sales of ChiltonDIY, and will not be making any further updates to the application. Chilton, like its main competitor Haynes, has reduced the availability of its product greatly. Haynes is now the sole provider of widely distributed repair manuals in the USA, and it, too, openly plans to stop selling any new paperback or digital books after 2020. Chilton still sells paperback books but plans to discontinue in
93-481: A duopoly with Pearson in the market and would have used McGraw-Hill as the merged corporate name with Michael Hansen as CEO. It is estimated Cengage has 24% of the market while McGraw-Hill has 21%, Pearson, the current market leader, has about 40 percent of the market and Wiley has about 7 percent. The merger was called off on May 1, 2020. In August 2021, Cengage rebranded as Cengage Group. In addition to organic growth, Cengage has expanded through acquisitions within
124-431: A large amount of debt through the course of its initial buyout and subsequent acquisitions, and had seen declining revenue through a shrinking market for paper textbooks. Cengage Learning filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 on July 2, 2013. Cengage Learning emerged from bankruptcy on April 1, 2014, eliminating approximately $ 4 billion of its funded debt and securing $ 1.75 billion in exit financing. Post-bankruptcy,
155-489: A result, Chilton Company's growth over the next thirty years lagged behind competitors like McGraw Hill and Penton . George Buzby's son G. C. (Carroll) Buzby became president of Chilton in the early 1950s and remained the Chief Executive Officer until he retired in the late 1960s. George C. Buzby died of cancer in 1970. In 1972, Philadelphia native William A. Barbour was elected president of Chilton. In 1979,
186-422: Is Cengage's library reference arm and specializes in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The company creates and maintains databases that are published online, in print, as e-books and in microform. On December 5, 2017, Cengage announced Cengage Unlimited, a subscription service that allows students to pay for access to the company's entire digital higher education catalog by
217-433: Is an American former publishing company, most famous for its trade magazines, and automotive manuals. It also provided conference and market research services to a wide variety of industries. Chilton grew from a small publisher of a single magazine to a leading publisher of business-to-business magazines, consumer and professional automotive manuals, craft and hobby books, and a large, well-known marketing research company. In
248-780: The American Broadcasting Company purchased the Chilton Company and made it an operating unit of ABC Publishing . ABC already owned Farm Progress , owner of the collectibles publisher Wallace-Homestead. Wallace-Homestead later became a division of Chilton. In 1985, Capital Cities purchased ABC, and in 1996, the Walt Disney Company purchased Capital Cities/ABC. Over-extended financially by its acquisition of Capital Cities ABC, Disney had to sell assets to reduce its debt—and Chilton, despite its status and recognition as an excellent business-to-business magazine publisher,
279-985: The Chilton brand for do-it-yourself print manuals as well. Cengage continues to publish or license the professional and consumer automotive products and assets. After acquisition by United Publishers in 1923, the corporate office moved to New York City. In 1955, all former United Publishers magazines and their staffs relocated from New York City to the corporate headquarters at 56th and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. In 1968, Chilton moved their corporate offices to Decker Square in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. This served as temporary headquarters until 1972 when Chilton moved into its new corporate headquarters building in Radnor, Pennsylvania. Chilton currently publishes hundreds of automobile repair manuals that cover thousands of models. Here are some of
310-468: The Chilton name is most strongly associated with the consumer and professional automotive manuals, which Cengage continues to license or publish. The company's origins go back to July 1896, and the first issue of Cycle Trade Journal , edited by James Artman who became the first president of the future Chilton Company. In 1899, the magazine changed its name to Cycle & Automobile Trade Journal . A 1900 magazine masthead listed Musselman & Buzby as
341-518: The Chilton stable of magazines. In 1934, the company underwent a complete reorganization. J. Howard Pew provided an infusion of cash that saved the company from bankruptcy, in exchange for a majority of the stock. All subsidiaries merged into one company and incorporated in the state of Delaware as Chilton Company . While the cash infusion from J. Howard Pew saved the company, it became the single biggest inhibitor to its growth, as Pew did not permit Chilton to seek outside funding for acquisitions. As
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#1732852604368372-472: The Gale Group. Thomson has acquired Information Access Company (publisher of InfoTrac ) in 1995 and Primary Source Media (formerly named Research Publications) in 1979. In 1999, Thomson Gale acquired Macmillan Library Reference (including Scribner's Reference, Thorndike Press, Schirmer, Twayne Publishers, and G. K. Hall ) from Pearson (which had acquired it from Simon & Schuster in 1998; Macmillan USA
403-545: The National Geographic Learning brand. The global brand combined the former Cengage Learning ELT and National Geographic School Publishing imprints and sub-brands under one unified identity. In September 2013, David Shaffer retired as chairman of the company. He had previously been executive vice president of The Thomson Corporation from 2005 to 2006, and then President and CEO of both Thomson Publishing International and Thomson Learning. The company had acquired
434-597: The areas of religion , history , and social science . Founded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954 by Frederick Gale Ruffner Jr. , the company was acquired by the International Thomson Organization (later the Thomson Corporation ) in 1985 before its 2007 sale to Cengage. In 1998, Gale Research merged with Information Access Company and Primary Source Media, two companies also owned by Thomson, to form
465-640: The company 14 out of 57 publishers worldwide, a decline of three slots from the previous year. The list includes both trade and educational publishers. Gale (publisher) The company, formerly known as Gale Research and the Gale Group , is active in research and educational publishing for public , academic , and school libraries , and businesses. The company is known for its full-text magazine and newspaper databases, Gale OneFile (formerly known as Infotrac), and other online databases subscribed by libraries, as well as multi-volume reference works, especially in
496-704: The company decided to focus on developing digital study guides and other educational supplements, as well as hard-copy textbooks. The company moved its headquarters from Stamford, Connecticut , to Boston. In January 2015, they announced expansion of their LearnLaunch Accelerator program, which provides seed funding and intensive coaching to promising startups, to the University of Chihuahua in Mexico. In November 2016, Cengage Learning rebranded as simply Cengage. In May 2019, Cengage announced its potential merger with another major publisher, McGraw-Hill Education , thereby creating
527-500: The corporate name Chilton Company was in 1904. It appears on a corporate seal that reads "Chilton Company of Pennsylvania, incorporated March 31, 1904." In 1907, the three partners purchased a printing company that they renamed the Chilton Printing Company , only publicly adopting the name Chilton Company in 1910. In March 1911, Chilton published the first issue of Commercial Car Journal . In February 1912, they renamed
558-506: The early years, its flagship magazine was Iron Age . In 1955, Chilton's profit reached $ 1 million for the first time, of which Iron Age accounted for $ 750,000. By 1980, Iron Age' s revenue and status had declined due to the reduction in the size of the US metalworking manufacturing industry, and Jewelers' Circular-Keystone captured the position of Chilton's most profitable magazine. While Chilton had leading magazines in several different industries,
589-526: The exclusive advertising representatives for Cycle & Automobile Trade Journal . In 1900, George Buzby , C. A. Musselman , and James Artman merged their companies to form the Trade Advertising & Publishing Co . The new company expanded into automotive catalogs, booklets, circulars, and posters. The company selected the name Chilton from the Mayflower's passenger list. The earliest known use of
620-473: The late 1940s. Shortly after the purchase, United Publishers merged their Class Journal subsidiary and Chilton into what became known as the Chilton Class Journal Co , with C. A. Musselman as its president. This merger brought several future flagship magazines (such as Iron Age , Motor Age , Dry Goods Economist , Jewelers Circular , Hardware Age , and Automotive Industries ) into
651-404: The manufacturers covered in the Chilton do-it-yourself library: After many years of publishing business-to-business magazines and automotive manuals, Chilton acquired the trade publisher Greenberg: Publisher in 1958. Chilton published the celebrated science fiction novels Dune by Frank Herbert ( 1965 ), and The Witches of Karres ( 1966 ) by James H. Schmitz . Each was nominated for
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#1732852604368682-427: The original Cycle & Automobile Trade Journal to Automobile Trade Journal , and eventually merged it into Motor Age magazine. In 1923, the partners sold Chilton to United Publishers Corp of New York for $ 1,635,000, and Artman and Buzby retired. In the same year, Chilton opened a new printing plant at 56th and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. This location became the Chilton Company corporate headquarters in
713-430: The publishing industry. Notable acquisitions include: The company's product lines include 4LTR Press, Aplia, Cengage Learning PTR, Chilton , Education To Go, Gale , Milady, MindTap, and National Geographic Learning. Since 2015, South-Western products have been branded as Cengage Learning. Cengage Unlimited, a SaaS solution, launched on August 1, 2018. In 2016, based on its 2015 revenues, Publishers Weekly ranked
744-458: The publishing operations of Litton Industries , including Van Nostrand Reinhold and Delmar. International Thomson acquired reference publisher Gale Research in 1985. International Thomson acquired South-Western Publishing from SFN in 1986. In 1992, Thomson acquired Course Technology. In 1995, Thomson acquired educational reference publisher Peterson's . In 1997, Van Nostrand Reinhold was sold to John Wiley & Sons . In 2000, Thomson Learning
775-760: The reference brands Primary Source Media, Scholarly Resources Inc., Schirmer Reference, St. James Press, The TAFT Group and Twayne Publishers, among others. Five Star Publishing is Gale's fiction imprint, with hundreds of books in print in the Western, Romance, Mystery and Science Fiction & Fantasy genres. Gale also sells into the K–12 market with several imprints, including U·X·L. Gale also owns large print publishers Christian Large Print and Wheeler Publishing. Gale-owned sites and services Chilton Company Chilton Company (also known as Chilton Printing Co., Chilton Publishing Co., Chilton Book Co. and Chilton Research Services)
806-454: The semester or year, rather than buying individual textbooks. This service became available during summer 2018, and was reported to be "in line with expectations" with its initial sales goal. The University of Missouri is the first university to offer this plan to all students, effective January 2019. International Thomson Publishing entered the publishing business by buying Wadsworth Publishing in 1979. In 1981 International Thomson purchased
837-628: Was bought by a private equity consortium consisting of Apax Partners and OMERS Capital Partners for $ 7.75 billion and the name was changed from Thomson Learning to Cengage Learning on July 24, 2007. Patrick C. Sommers was president of Gale from October 22, 2007, until he retired in 2010. Gale produces hundreds of products, such as Gale Academic OneFile, Biography and Genealogy Master Index , General OneFile, General Reference Center, Sabin Americana (based on Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana ), and World History Collection. Gale print imprints include
868-546: Was bought by a private equity consortium consisting of Apax Partners and OMERS Capital Partners for US$ 7.75 billion, and the name was changed to Cengage Learning on July 24, 2007. In 2007, Cengage Learning sold Peterson's to Nelnet . In 2011, Cengage Learning acquired the National Geographic Society's school publishing unit, and combined this school business with the Global ELT business to create and launch
899-451: Was created out of a restructuring of International Thomson Publishing. Later that year Thomson acquired the higher education title of Harcourt from Reed Elsevier , and the test prep publisher Arco from IDG Books . In 2002, Wadsworth acquired F.E. Peacock Publishers. It was announced on October 25, 2006, that Thomson Learning would be offered for sale by the Thomson Corporation , with an estimated value of up to US$ 5 billion. The company
930-544: Was not considered a core business. Disney therefore decided to split up and sell the Chilton Company profit centers to multiple buyers: In 2001, Nichols sold the do-it-yourself automotive print manuals to Haynes Publishing Group (publishers of Haynes Manuals ), while retaining licensing rights to the Chilton do-it-yourself brand for print products for 10 years. In 2003, Nichols sold the remaining automotive assets to Thomson Learning . In 2007, Thomson Learning became Cengage Learning . In 2011, Cengage Learning became owner of
961-598: Was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1994). In 2000 it acquired the Munich -based K. G. Saur Verlag , but then sold it to Walter de Gruyter in 2006. On October 25, 2006, Thomson Corporation announced that it intended to wholly divest the Thomson Learning division, because, in the words of Thomson CEO Richard Harrington, "it does not fit with our long-term strategic vision." Thomson has said that it expected this sale to generate approximately $ 5 billion. Thomson Learning