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overview
holdings
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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only.
It covers -
Context
is provided by the broader general communications and
media timeline.
beginnings
1836 J. B. Wolters founds Schoolbook Publishing Company
in Groningen
1858 P. Noordhoff establishes Noordhoff publishing house
1886 Nicolaas Samson leaves civil service to run his publishing
business full time
1891 Ebele E. Kluwer publishes his first textbook
1920 Kluwer establishes arm in Jakarta
1959 Indonesia nationalizes J.B. Wolters-Djarkata
concentration
1968 Schoolbook (now known as J. B. Wolters) merges with
Noordhoff
1970 Samson merges with A.W. Sijthoff to form Information
& Communications Union (ICU)
1972 Wolters-Noordhoff merges with the ICJ (book and journal
publisher for administrative market) as ICJ
1983 ICU renamed Wolters-Samson
1987 Kluwer merges with Wolters-Samson to fend off hostile
takeover by Elsevier, becomes
Wolters Kluwer
overseas expansion
1987 buys UK kids publisher Wayland
1987 buys Hermann Luchterhand Verlag
1987 buys Financial Training of UK
1989 sells Bert Bakker
1989 sells Martinus Nijhoff International
1989 buys IPSOA Editore of Italy
1989 buys Kieser Verlag of Germany
1989 buys Technipublicaciones of Spain
1989 buys Tele Consulte of France
1990 buys medical publisher J.B. Lippincott from HarperCollins
for US$250m
1990 buys Raven Publishers, amalgamated with Lippincott
1990 buys Gower Medical Publishing from HarperCollins
1990 sells printing operations
1992 sells newspaper operations
1992 establishes Boekhandels Groep Nederland (with 33%
stake)
1993 sells Gower to Times Mirror
1994 buys Macdonald Young Books
1995 buys Canterbury Educational
1996 buys US tax specialist Commerce Clearing House for
£1.9bn
1996 buys CD-Denmark
1996 buys Akademiai Kiado
1996 buys Little Brown professional division (medical
and legal publishing) for US$100m
1996 buys Groupe Liaisons Investissements
1997 buys Chapman & Hall from Thomson
1997 buys Wiley US law book division
for US$26m
1998 buys Williams & Wilkins to form Lippincott Williams
& Wilkins
1998 buys Ovid Technologies, developer of MEDLINE service,
for US$200m
1998 buys Kerszöv (Hungary)
1998 buys Byll Software (Czech Republic)
1998 abandons proposed merger with Reed Elsevier
1998 buys Waverly books for US$375m
1998 buys Plenum Publishing for US$258m
1998 buys Capitol Publishing from Pearson
for US$20m
1999 sells Wayland to W.H.Smith for £4m
1999 buys Bankers Systems Inc for US$190m
1999 buys Telecommunications Reports International, Inc.
1999 buys PACS software
1999 buys US publisher State Tax Institute
2000 buys US electronic publisher Loislaw.com for US$95m
2000 sells Krauthammer International to MBO
2000 sells IEC (Internal & External Communication,
Inc.) to Quisic
2000 sells HQ Group to MBO
2000 sells 50% stake in E+T Förlag, Swedish publisher
of professional magazines
2000 buys professional tax, accounting and related products
arm of Harcourt, Inc.'s Professional Publishing unit
2000 buys Spanish compliance software provider A3 Software
2000 sells one-third interest in MD Consult to Harcourt
2000 buys nursing publisher Springhouse Corporation from
Elsevier
2000 buys Baltzer Science Publishers
2000 buys Financial Data Systems
2000 buys KnowledgePoint
2000 buys Thomas Nelson UK from Thomson
2001 sells US training group Blessing White to MBO
2001 sells Dutch training company ROVC Technische Opleidingen
2001 buys electronic publisher Silver Platter
2001 buys Compliance International, Inc
2001 buys Italian tax software specialist OSRA
2001 sells Financial Training Company in £50m deal
2002 buys Artel Softwarehouse in Italy for €3m
2002 buys business information provider Charles D. Spencer
& Associates
2002 buys Moorhouse Black of Britain and Ciceron of France
2002 buys ABG Professional Information for £43.5m
2002 buys National Media Technologies
sells KAP
2002 Wolters Kluwer sells Kluwer Academic Publishers to
London-based private equity funds Candover and Cinven
for US$591m
2002 buys legal software company AnNoText GmbH
2002 sells trade publisher ten Hagen & Stam to Sdu
NV
2002 buys German legal publisher Verlag Praktisches Wissen
2002 sells healthcare publisher Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
(BSL) to PCM Algemene Boeken, part of PCM
Uitgevers
2003 Candover and Cinven buy BertelsmannSpringer from
Bertelsmann for €1.05bn,
merge it with Kluwer Academic Publishers as Springer
Science + Business Media
2003 Wolters Kluwer sells ISBW Opleiding & Training
(Dutch institute for professional training of managers)
to Schouten & Nelissen
2005 Wolters Kluwer Health acquires Pennsylvania-based
Boucher Communications Inc (BCI)
2006 buys academic and legal publisher Carl Heymanns Verlag
2006 buys ProVation Medical, Inc.
2006 sells Segment BV (Elektuur electronics magazine)
to KijkOver
2006 buys automated lending and account origination solutions
provider GulfPak Corporation
2006 buys tax preparation, accounting and tax research
software specialist ATX/Kleinrock
2007 sells education arm to private equity firm Bridgepoint
Capital for €774m
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