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 beginnings
1734 Lloyd's List first published in London
1797 Richard Taylor becomes apprentice to London printer
Jonas Davis
1798 Davis begins printing Alexander Tillich's Philosophical
Magazine
1800 Davis sells the business to Taylor's father; Taylor
forms partnership with Richard Wilks
1804 Taylor dissolves partnership on becoming master printer
1834 son Dr William Francis joins publishing and printing
operation
1836 George Routledge publishes first book
1837 Taylor launches Scientific Memoirs
1837 purchases co-ownership of Magazine of Zoology
& Botany
1848 Routledge goes into partnership with WH Warne
1851 goes into partnership with Frederick Warne, founds
George Routledge & Co
1851 Nicholas Trübner launches publishing house
1852 establishment of Taylor & Francis when William
Francis becomes partner
1858 Routledge, Warne & Routledge established
1863 Edmund Routledge becomes partner, with firm renamed
George Routledge & Son
1877 Charles Kegan Paul buys H S King & Co (formed
in 1868)
1879 Kegan Paul, Trench & Co formed
1889 speculator Horatio Bottomley merges Trübner
& Co with Kegan Paul, Trench & Co as Kegan Paul,
Trench, Trübner & Co
1901 Adriaan Swets & Heinrich Zeitlinger open scientific
bookshop in Amsterdam
1902 Routledge reorganised after financial crisis
1903 Routledge buys J C Nimmo & Bain (formed 1879)
1912 merges with Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner &
Co as Routledge & Kegan Paul
1917 Taylor & Francis buys Charles Jones & Co.
printers
1918 Swets buys Eisendraht bookshop
1917 son WA Swets founds subscription service
1936 Taylor & Francis becomes private limited company
1940 Maurits Dekker founds Interscience Publishers
1957 Frank Cass founded
the
golden age of scientific publishing
1960 International Business Conferences (later IBC) founded
1960 Learning International founded
1961 Interscience merges with John Wiley
& Sons
1963 Marcel Dekker founded by son of Maurits Dekker
1965 Taylor & Francis begins book publishing with
Wykeham Publications
1965 Learning International acquired by Xerox
1967 Taylor & Francis launches Journal of Natural
History
1970 Curzon Press founded
1972 Carfax founded
1972 AA Balkema founded
1973 Irvine Laidlaw founds IIR as publisher of international
newsletters
1973 Kaset International founded
1977 Zenger Miller founded by Jack Zenger and Dale Miller
1978 Gordon & Breach buys Harwood Academic
1978 IIR enters conference business in UK
1979 Swets & Zeitlinger bookshop closes
1980 Robbins-Gioia founded by John Robbins and Jack Gioia
1982 Taylor & Francis opens first international office
(in New York)
IBC
1985 IBC Group plc listed on the London Stock Exchange
1986 buys Stonehart Publications
1986 IIR acquires Northwest Centre for Professional Education
(US real estate conference organiser)
1988 Taylor & Francis acquires Hemisphere Publishing
from Murdoch's News group after
takeover of Harper & Row
1988 Taylor & Francis renamed Taylor & Francis
Group
1989 Bios Scientific founded
1989 IIR acquires American Institute networking and data
communications training
1989 Learning International, Zenger Miller and Kaset International
acquired by Times Mirror as
the Times Mirror Training Group
1989 Michael Danson founds Datamonitor
1990 Taylor & Francis exits from the printing business
1990 Murdoch's HarperCollins
sells Unwin Hyman academic division to Routledge
1994 Taylor & Francis acquires psychology publisher
Accelerated Developments, Inc.
1994 acquires Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
LLP
1995 LLP Group plc formed through MBO of Lloyds of London
Press, publishing division of Lloyds insurance market
1995 IIR buys Council on Education in Management
1996 Taylor & Francis acquires Garland Publishing
1997 Thomson sells EF Spon
1997 Times-Mirror merges Zenger Miller, Learning International
and Kaset International as AchieveGlobal
1997 IIR buys ESI International
1998 Taylor & Francis goes public on London Stock
Exchange
1998 buys Routledge (including Routledge, Spon Press and
Carfax) for £90m
1998 begins distribution in the Asia/Pacific region
1998 IIR starts Abbey Business Centres, UK-based serviced
office business
Informa
1998 Informa formed through merger of IBC Group and LLP
Group
1998 buys Stewart Productions Ltd (Neil Stewart Associates)
1998 LLP listed on London Stock Exchange
1999 IIR buys Omega Performance Corporation
1999 Taylor & Francis buys Martin Dunitz for US$18.02m
1999 acquires Europa Publications
1999 Informa buys 60 subscription based newsletters, seven
magazines, 600 management reports and 24 directories from
Financial Times Business Ltd (FTB)
1999 buys Baskerville Communications Corporation
1999 buys finance and insurance, maritime trade &
transport and commercial fishing publications from Emap
for £28m
1999 buys Washington Policy & Analysis Inc
1999 buys aviation specialist Linkraven
1999 buys Daily Commercial News from APN
News & Media for $10m
2000 Taylor & Francis acquires journals division of
Scandanavian University Press
2000 Swets Blackwell created through merger of Swets Subscription
Services and Blackwell's Information
Services
2000 Informa buys portfolio of products in the maritime,
trade and transport magazines, directories, yearbooks,
management reports and events from IIR
2000 Informa buys Auscom Publishing Pty Ltd (ICT publications)
for $1.9m
2000 buys BISYS Research Services Inc. from The BISYS
Group
2000 IIR buys Huthwaite
2000 buys AchieveGlobal from Tribune
for US$100m
2001 Informa buys Opleinding en Ontwikkeling Breda BV
and Select Seminars BV
2001 buys MCM (formerly McCarthy Crisanti Maffei) for
£30.5m
2001 buys Eaton Massachusetts Business Trust (BioTechniques
journal) for US$32.1m
2001 Taylor & Francis buys Gordon & Breach Publishing
Group (including Harwood Academic) for £22.8m
2001 Swets Blackwell buys Martinus Nijhoff International
2001 Taylor & Francis buys Curzon Press
2002 buys Fitzroy Deanborn Publishers (FDP) for £3.1m
2002 offers US$300m for Blackwell
Publishers
2002 bids for Wolters Kluwer's
Kluwer Academic Publishers (acquired by Candover and Cinven)
2002 IIR buys Communispond
2003 IIR buys Forum
2003 Taylor & Francis buys Bios Scientific Publishers
for £2.7m
2003 buys CRC Press (32 journals and 352 books) from Information
Holdings for US$95m
2003 buys Dekker group from Marcel Dekker, Inc. for US$138.6m
2003 buys Frank Cass & Co. for £11.3m
2003 buys Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers for €16.7m
2003 Swets Blackwell renamed Swets Information Services
after Swets buys Blackwell stake
2003 Taylor & Francis buys AA Balkema
2003 Informa buys MMS group for US$37m
merger
2004 Taylor & Francis merges with Informa as T&F
Informa
2005 buys IIR for £768m
2007 buys Datamonitor for £502m
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