Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals, its parts include, Taylor & Francis, Routledge, F1000 Research or Dovepress.[6] It is a division of Informa plc, a United Kingdom–based publisher and conference company.[7]
Overview
The company was founded in 1852 when William Francis joined Richard Taylor in his publishing business. Taylor had founded his company in 1798. Their subjects covered agriculture, chemistry, education, engineering, geography, law, mathematics, medicine, and social sciences.[8]
Francis's son, Richard Taunton Francis (1883–1930), was sole partner in the firm from 1917 to 1930.[9]
In 1965, Taylor & Francis launched Wykeham Publications and began book publishing. T&F acquired Hemisphere Publishing in 1988, and the company was renamed Taylor & Francis Group to reflect the growing number of imprints. Taylor & Francis left the printing business in 1990, to concentrate on publishing. In 1998 it went public on the London Stock Exchange and in the same year bought its academic publishing rival Routledge for £90 million.[10] Acquisition of other publishers has remained a core part of the group's business strategy.[10] It merged with Informa in 2004 to create a new company called T&F Informa, since renamed back to Informa.[10] Following the merger, T&F closed the historic Routledge office at New Fetter Lane in London, and moved to its current headquarters in Milton Park, Oxfordshire.[11] Taylor & Francis Group is now the academic publishing arm of Informa, and accounted for 30.2% of Group Revenue and 38.1% of Adjusted Profit in 2017.[12]
In 2018 Informa PLC reported Taylor & Francis publishes more than 2,700 journals, and about 7,000 new books each year, with a backlist of over 140,000 titles available in print and digital formats.[12] It uses the Routledge imprint for its publishing in humanities, social sciences, behavioural sciences, law and education, and the CRC Press imprint for its publishing in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In 2017, T&F sold assets from its Garland Science imprint to W. W. Norton & Company and then ceased to use that brand.[13][12]
Although generally considered the smallest of the 'Big Four' STEM publishers (Reed-Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, Springer, and Taylor & Francis),[14] its Routledge imprint is claimed to be the largest global academic publisher within humanities and social sciences.[15][16] The company's journals have been delivered through the Taylor & Francis Online website since June 2011. Prior to that they were provided through the Informaworld website.[17] Taylor & Francis ebooks are now available via the TaylorFrancis website.[18] Taylor & Francis operates a number of Web services for its digital content including Routledge Handbooks Online,[19] the Routledge Performance Archive,[20] Secret Intelligence Files[21] and Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.[22] Taylor & Francis offers Open Access publishing options in both its books[23] and journals[24] divisions and through its Cogent Open Access journals imprint.[12]
Taylor & Francis is a member of several professional publishing bodies including the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association,[25] the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers,[26] the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers[27] and The Publishers Association.[28] In 2017, after collaborating for several years, T&F bought specialist digital resources company Colwiz.[29][30] In January 2020, T&F bought open research publishing platform F1000.[31]
The old Taylor and Francis logo depicts a hand pouring oil into a lit lamp, along with the Latin phrase alere flammam – "to feed the flame [of knowledge]". The modern logo is a stylised oil lamp in a circle.[25]
Company figures
The group has about 1,800 employees[32] in at least 18 offices worldwide. Its head office is in Milton Park, Abingdon in the United Kingdom, with other offices in Stockholm, Leiden, New York, Boca Raton, Philadelphia, Kentucky, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Melbourne, Sydney, Cape Town, Tokyo and New Delhi.[32][33]
Taylor & Francis reported a mean 2017 gender pay gap of 24.2% for its UK workforce, while the median was 8%. The fact that the average pay for women is significantly worse than the median pay (compared to men's) shows that women are underrepresented in the positions with the highest pay.[34]
Controversies and evaluation
Journal protests
In 2013, the entire board of the Journal of Library Administration resigned in a dispute over author licensing agreements.[35]
The Board believes that the licensing terms in the Taylor & Francis author agreement are too restrictive and out-of-step with the expectations of authors in the LIS community.
A large and growing number of current and potential authors to JLA have pushed back on the licensing terms included in the Taylor & Francis author agreement. Several authors have refused to publish with the journal under the current licensing terms.
Authors find the author agreement unclear and too restrictive and have repeatedly requested some form of Creative Commons license in its place.
After much discussion, the only alternative presented by Taylor & Francis tied a less restrictive license to a $2995 per article fee to be paid by the
Author. As you know, this is not a viable licensing option for authors from the LIS community who are generally not conducting research under large grants.Thus, the Board came to the conclusion that it is not possible to produce a quality journal under the current licensing terms offered by Taylor & Francis and chose to collectively resign.
Bravo to the editorial board of JLA for taking such a principled stand.
For a bit more background, Jason Griffey gives the perspective of an author approached by Mathews who strongly disagreed with T&F's current author rights regime. From the other side, Chris Bourg gives the perspective of someone on the JLA editorial board and a bit on how they came to their decision.
Along with many others in the comments on the various blog posts, Peter Suber suggests the board take the next step and launch their own new journal. Suber also helpfully points to a list of journals that have done just that.
My take?
First of all, I think it's a bit unfortunate that Mathews took his rather forward-thinking project to a rather backwards-thinking traditional toll access journal. The way to envision the future is to be the future to want to happen, and it's hard to imagine T&F embodying the future of scholarly communications in a way that anybody but the big commercial publishers would like to see.
That being said, I do sincerely hope his project finds a more suitable home and that one of the themes it explores is the library's role in a fairer, more open scholarly communications ecosystem.
As for the future of JLA, I hope T&F is able to move into the future and create a author rights regime that is more in sync with what authors in the LIS fields are looking for. For the resigned editorial board, I wish for them a way forward, a new partnership with an institution or society that will allow them and the authors they recruit in the future to openly envision and create the future.
https://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2013/03/24/journal-of-library-administration-editorial-board-resigns-over-author-rights
- A.A.Balkema (acquired in 2003)[50]
- Accelerated Developments Inc. (acquired in 1994)[10]
- Acumen Publishing (acquired in 2014)[51]
- Adam Hilger (acquired in 2005 as part of IOP Publishing books division)
- AK Peters (acquired in 2010)
- Allen & Unwin (Textbooks & Professional Lists) (acquired in 2020)[52]
- The Analytic Press (acquired with Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates in 2006)[10]
- Anderson Publishing (acquired in 2014 from Elsevier)[53]
- Architectural Press[54]
- Arnold (acquired in 2012)[55]
- Ashgate (acquired in July 2015)[56]
- Auerbach Publications[57]
- Baywood Publishing (acquired in 2016)[58]
- Bellwether Publishing (acquired in 2013)[59]
- Bibliomotion (acquired in 2016)[60]
- BIOS Scientific Publishers (acquired in 2003)[10]
- Bloomsbury Journals (acquired in 2015)[61]
- Brunner-Mazel[10]
- Brunner-Routledge (acquired in 1998)[10]
- Carfax (acquired with Routledge in 1998)[10]
- Cavendish (acquired in 2006)[62]
- Crane, Russak (acquired 1984)[63]
- Colwiz[30]
- CRC Press (acquired in 2003)[10] This imprint is still used.
- Curzon (acquired in 2001)[10]
- David Fulton Press[64]
- Dove Medical Press (acquired in 2017)[65]
- Donhead Publishing (acquired in 2013)[66]
- Earthscan (acquired in 2011)[67]
- Europa Publications (acquired in 1999)[68]
- F1000 Research (acquired in 2020)[69]
- Falmer Press (acquired in 1979)[63]
- Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers (acquired in 2002)[10]
- Focal Press (acquired in 2012)[70]
- Frank Cass (acquired in 2003)[71]
- Garland Science (acquired in 1996, closed 2018)[10]
- Gordon & Breach (acquired in 2001)[72]
- Gower (acquired with Ashgate in 2015)[73]
- Greengage Press (acquired in 2013)[74]
- Greenleaf Publishing/GSE Research (acquired in 2017)[75][76]
- Harwood Academic (acquired with Gordon & Breach in 2001)[10]
- Haworth Press (acquired in 2007)[10]
- Heldref Publications (except World Affairs) (acquired in 2009)[77]
- Hemisphere Publishing (acquired in 1988)[10]
- Hodder Education Group (acquired 2012)[78]
- Holcomb Hathaway (acquired in 2016)[79]
- Karnac Publishing (acquired in 2017)[80][81]
- Landes Bioscience (acquired in 2014)[82]
- Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates (acquired in 2006)[10]
- Left Coast Press Inc. (acquired in 2016)[83]
- Maney Publishing (acquired in 2015)[56]
- Manson Publishing (acquired in 2014)[84]
- Marcel Dekker (acquired in 2003)[85]
- Martin Dunitz (acquired in 1999)[10]
- M.E. Sharpe, Inc. (acquired in 2014)[86]
- Paradigm Publishers (acquired in 2014)[87]
- Parthenon Publishing (acquired with CRC Press in 2003)[88]
- Pickering & Chatto Publishers (acquired in 2015)[89]
- Planners Press (acquired in 2017 from the American Planning Association)[90][91]
- Productivity Press (acquired in 2007)[92]
- Prufrock Press (acquired in 2021)[93]
- Psychology Press (formerly the European division of Lawrence Erlbaum, acquired in 1995)[63][94]
- Pyrczak Publishing (acquired in 2016)[95]
- Radcliffe Healthcare (acquired in 2015)[96]
- RFF Press (acquired with Earthscan in 2011)[97]
- Routledge (acquired in 1998)[10] This imprint is still used.
- Scandinavian University Press Journals (acquired in 2000)[10]
- Speechmark Publishing (acquired in 2016)[98][99]
- Spon Press (acquired with Routledge in 1998)[10]
- St Jerome Publishing (acquired in 2013)[100]
- Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers (acquired in 2003)[50]
- Taylor Graham Journals (acquired in 2003)[88]
- Transaction Publishers (acquired in 2016)[101][102]
- Westview Press (acquired in 2017)[103]
- Willan Publishing (acquired in 2010)[104][105]
Maney Publishing
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)This article needs additional citations for verification. (October 2015)Maney Publishing Founded 1997 Defunct 2015 Successor Taylor & Francis Country of origin United Kingdom Headquarters location Leeds, England Publication types Books, academic journals Official website maneypublishing .com Maney Publishing was an independent academic publishing company that was taken over by Taylor & Francis in 2015. Maney Publishing specialised in peer-reviewed academic journals in materials science and engineering, the humanities, and health science. Maney published extensively for learned societies, universities, and professional bodies.
As of 2014, Maney published over 150 journals.[1] The company offered an open access option (MORE OpenChoice) to all authors. The company had offices in Leeds and London in the United Kingdom, and in Boston and Philadelphia in the United States.
History
Maney Publishing was formed in 1997, from a specialist typesetting and printing company, W.S. Maney & Son Ltd, which had been founded in Leeds in 1900. Maney's transition from printing to publishing was based on a series of long-standing relationships with learned societies and academic bodies. The oldest such partner was the English Goethe Society, with which Maney had worked since 1947. Organisations who started publishing agreements later included the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, for whom Maney published journals and books from 2001. In 2007, Maney Publishing (USA) was incorporated to attract work from North American bodies.
Maney was acquired by Taylor & Francis (itself a part of Informa) in 2015[2] and its journals are now available on the Taylor & Francis Online website.[3]
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Informa
Jump to navigation Jump to searchInforma PLC Type Public limited company LSE: INF
FTSE 100 ComponentIndustry Publishing, business intelligence, global exhibitions, Events Predecessors Founded December 1998 Headquarters London, England Number of locations150 offices Area served43+ countries worldwide Key peopleStephen Carter, Baron Carter of Barnes (CEO) Services Specialist information, scholarly research, electronic publishing, event management, exhibitions, business intelligence Revenue £1,798.7 million (2021)[1] £388.4 million (2021)[1] £88.2 million (2021)[1] Number of employees10,000 (2022)[2] Divisions Informa Connect, Informa Intelligence, Informa Markets, Informa Tech, Taylor & Francis Website informa .com Informa PLC
Informa PLC is a British publishing, business intelligence, and exhibitions group. Headquartered in London, it is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
It has offices in 43 countries and around 11,000 employees. Informa owns numerous brands including CRC Press, Fan Expo HQ, Game Developers Conference, Lloyd's List (London Press Lloyd), Routledge, and Taylor & Francis.
Informa acquired UBM in June 2018 as part of its strategy to expand in North America and Asia.[3][4]
History
Informa's oldest business started in 1734 when Lloyd's List, now one of the world's oldest continuously running journals, began covering London shipping news.[5]
Informa itself was created in 1998 by the merger of IBC Group plc and LLP Group plc. Since then Informa has expanded considerably, including a 2004 merger with the publishing company Taylor & Francis and a 2005 acquisition of IIR Holdings, a human capital development company, for £768 million.[6][7] In October 2006, the company was approached by Springer Science and Business Media in a takeover bid,[8] but in early November the Informa board rejected the 630p per share offer as too low.[9]
In early 2007, chairman Richard Hooper announced his retirement in May and, after consulting with major shareholders, the company moved chief executive Peter Rigby to chairman, and managing director David Gilbertson to Rigby's former post. Informa explained Rigby's move by the need to maintain management stability, although it generated some controversy because it did not follow the advice of the UK's Combined Code on Corporate Governance.[6][10]
On 8 June 2008, The Sunday Telegraph revealed that United Business Media (UBM) had proposed a merger with Informa to create a media group worth over £3 billion.[11] The talks were confirmed by Informa in a press release that same day, but described as "preliminary".[12][13] Previously on 13 May The Times had reported that the Carlyle Group and Apax Partners were considering bidding for the company.[14] On 17 June talks with UBM ended because of the rapid rise in Informa's stock price after the public disclosure of the potential merger.[15] On 26 June a private equity consortium consisting of Providence Equity Partners, the Carlyle Group and Hellman & Friedman proposed a takeover bid offering 506 pence per share.[16]
In May 2009 the company announced that it would restructure its business to be incorporated in Jersey but tax resident in Switzerland.[17]
The discontinued domain Informaworld provided subscribers with more than half a million journal articles and 13,000 e-books from all its imprints.[18] In June 2011 the journals and e-books transferred to a new website, Taylor & Francis Online. Abstracting and indexing databases and bibliographic databases were to move from Informaworld to Taylor & Francis Online at a later date.[19]
In July 2013, the company announced that Peter Rigby would retire at the end of 2013 to be replaced as CEO by Stephen Carter.[20] Also in 2013, Informa acquired the Canadian company Hobby Star Marketing, who ran the Fan Expo Canada and Toronto Comicon comic book conventions. Informa has since acquired other conventions and placed them under the auspices of their Fan Expo HQ brand, including Dallas Comic Con and MegaCon.[21][22][23]
In December 2013, Informa acquired the assets of Elsevier Business Intelligence (EBI) from Reed Elsevier. The EBI business unit includes such publications as The Pink Sheet, The Gray Sheet, IN VIVO, Start-Up, and the Strategic Transactions database along with a series of notable conferences. The EBI assets combined with Scrip, Datamonitor and several other publications formed the newly created Pharma Intelligence division of Informa Business Information.[24]
In January 2014, Carter became CEO of Informa plc.[25] In September 2017, Informa announced that it would be acquiring Dove Medical Press.[26]
In January 2018, Informa announced its intent to acquire UBM plc.[27] The transaction was completed in June 2018.[28]
In 2019, Informa sold the former UBM Life Sciences to MJH Associates.[29] Later in 2019, Informa traded it Agriculture Intelligence unit to IHS Markit in exchange for most of IHS Markit's Technology, Media and Telecoms division.[30] Also in 2019, Informa sold the former Penton design & engineering, manufacturing, energy, buildings, and commercial vehicle divisions, and the former UBM Automotive, to Endeavor Business Media.[31]
In February 2020, Informa launched Omdia by consolidated its portfolio of market analyst companies, Ovum Ltd, Heavy Reading, Tractica, and the majority of IHS Markit's technology, media and telecommunications research business, into a unified brand. The combined research offering includes more than 400 analysts and consultants covering 150 technology markets. Collectively, Omdia issues over 3,000 research reports annually.[32]
In February 2022, Informa sold its Informa Intelligence unit to investment fund, Warburg Pincus for $2.6 billion.[33]
Operations
Informa is organized into five operating divisions: Informa Connect, Informa Intelligence, Informa Markets, Informa Tech, and Taylor & Francis.[34]
In June 2021, John Rishton was appointed as chairman, replacing Derek Mapp.[35]
Brands
Informa owns numerous brands including CRC Press, Fan Expo HQ, Game Developers Conference, Lloyd's List (London Press Lloyd), Routledge, and Taylor & Francis. Retired and consolidated brands include Institute for International Research, Ovum Ltd, Penton, The Public Ledger, and UBM.
Academic practices
In 2016, Critical Reviews in Toxicology was accused by the Center for Public Integrity of being a "broker of junk science".[36] Monsanto was found to have worked with an outside consulting firm to induce the journal to publish a biased review of the health effects of its product "Roundup".[37]
In 2017, Taylor & Francis was strongly criticized for removing the editor-in-chief of International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, who accepted articles critical of corporate interests. The company replaced the editor with a corporate consultant without consulting the editorial board.[38]
The journal Cogent Social Sciences accepted a hoax article, "The conceptual penis as a social construct", that had been rejected by another Taylor & Francis journal, Norma: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, which suggested the study would be a good fit for Cogent Social Sciences.[39][40] When the authors announced the hoax, the article was retracted.[41]
In December 2018, the journal Dynamical Systems accepted the paper Saturation of Generalized Partially Hyperbolic Attractors only to have it retracted after publication due to the Iranian nationality of the authors. The European Mathematical Society condemned the retraction and later announced that Taylor & Francis had agreed to reverse the decision.[42] Previous instances of Taylor & Francis journals discriminating against Iranian authors were reported in 2013.[43][44]
In 2022 there has been much debate about the Accelerated Publication service offered by Taylor & Francis for some of its biomedical journals.[45] For $7,000, a scientist can expedite the peer review process and be published in as few as three weeks.[46]
Manipulation of bibliometrics
Self-citation is a practise that can inflate the seeming prestige of a journal or group. In 2020, six T&F journals that exhibited unusual levels of self-citation, and as a consequence their journal impact factor suspended from Journal Citation Reports.[47] An April 2022 article in the T&F journal Accountability in Research outlined some of the factors leading to consistent suspension from Journal Citation Reports.[48]
Evaluation
As of May 2022, 836 Taylor & Francis journals are listed in the Norwegian Scientific Index of which 753 have a rating of "level 1" (meets academic standard), 70 have a rating "level 2" (the highest level, indicating rigorous academic quality), one has a rating of "level X" (decision on rating in progress), and 13 have a rating of "level 0" (indicating non-academic quality).[49]
Acquired companies and discontinued imprints
Example of Buying a compay
See also
References
Further reading
Warburg Pincus
Type | Limited liability company |
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Industry | Private equity |
Founded | 1966 |
Founders | |
Headquarters | 450 Lexington Avenue New York City, New York, U.S. |
Key people |
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Products | Investments, private equity funds |
AUM | US$82.66 billion (2022)[1] |
Total assets | $62 billion [2] |
Number of employees | 754 (2022)[1] |
Website | warburgpincus |
Warburg Pincus LLC is a global private equity firm, headquartered in New York, with offices in the United States, Europe, Brazil, China, Southeast Asia and India.[2][3] Warburg has been a private equity investor since 1966.[4][5] The firm currently has over $80 billion[6] in assets under management and invests in a range of sectors including retail, industrial manufacturing, energy, financial services, health care, technology, media, and real estate. Warburg Pincus is a growth investor.[7] Warburg Pincus has raised 21 private equity funds which have invested over $100 billion in over 1,000 companies in 40 countries.[8]
Warburg Pincus invested in the information and communication technology sectors, including investments in Avaya, Bharti Tele-Ventures, Harbour Networks, NeuStar, PayScale, and Telcordia.[9][10][11][12][13][14]
History
History of private equity and venture capital |
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Early history |
(origins of modern private equity) |
The 1980s |
(leveraged buyout boom) |
The 1990s |
(leveraged buyout and the venture capital bubble) |
The 2000s |
(dot-com bubble to the credit crunch) |
Founding and early history
In 1939, Eric Warburg of the Warburg banking family founded a company under the name E.M. Warburg & Co. Its first address was 52 William Street, New York, the Kuhn Loeb building. Throughout the early post-war period, the firm was a small office of 20 employees. In 1966, E.M. Warburg merged with Lionel I. Pincus & Co, forming a new company that eventually became known as E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co.[15] In 1965, when Eric Warburg retired to Germany, control was handed to Lionel Pincus, a partner in the Ladenburg Thalmann investment bank, and the working language of the office switched from German to English.
In 1967, John Vogelstein, a former partner at Lazard Freres, joined Pincus to build the firm.[16] Together they developed a strategy of investing in diversified companies of various sizes rather than focusing on start-ups.[17] Pincus was the founder and chairman[18] while Vogelstein was vice chairman[19] and then president.[20][21] Pincus and Vogelstein ran the company until 2002, when they stepped down and appointed Charles Kaye and Joseph P. Landy as co-presidents.[17][19] Pincus died in 2009.[16]
Warburg Pincus began investing in Europe in 1983 and opened its first office in Asia in 1994. It has invested more than $5 billion in Europe; more than $3 billion in India[22] and more than $3.3 billion in China. The firm is headquartered in New York and has offices in Beijing, Berlin, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Mumbai, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai and Singapore, with administrative offices in Amsterdam, Luxembourg and Mauritius.[23]
The firm is structured as a global partnership led by CEO, Charles Kaye, and President, Timothy Geithner.[24]
Initial public offerings
More than 140 Warburg Pincus companies have listed on exchanges, raising approximately $30 billion in public markets.[25] In each of these IPOs, the firm was the principal financial investor in the portfolio company. The companies have listed on 13 exchanges, including at least 30 IPOs outside the U.S. In August 2010, a six-year partnership between management and Warburg Pincus led to MEG Energy's successful IPO.
Funds
Warburg Pincus has a history of venture capital investing. The firm is a founding member of the venture capital associations in the U.S. and China, and offers a global entrepreneur in residence program to help start up new businesses.[26]
In October 2014, Reuters reported that Warburg Pincus had raised $4 billion for its first energy-focused private equity fund.[27] In late 2018, Warburg Pincus closed its Warburg Pincus Global Growth, L.P. fund at $14.8 billion, and in June 2019, closed its Warburg Pincus China-Southeast Asia II, L.P. fund at $4.25 billion.[28]
Warburg Pincus has invested in companies such as [CityMD &!The Summit Medical Group], Harbin Pharmaceutical,[29] NIO, ZTO Express[30] in China and South East Asia, Bharti Telecommunications, Apollo Tyres Ltd,[31] Ecom Express,[32] SBI General Insurance[33] in India, AmRest in Poland[34] and Nuance Communications in the U.S.[35] In 2019, the firm acquired a majority stake in healthcare tech company WebPT from Battery Ventures.[36]
Fight over the Warburg name
During the post-war period, Eric Warburg vied with his cousin Siegmund Warburg, founder of S.G. Warburg, over the use of the Warburg name in New York. Siegmund wished to expand the S.G. Warburg franchise into New York but was blocked by the existence of E.M. Warburg & Co. Following the effective sale of the business to Pincus, Siegmund Warburg accused Eric of prostituting the Warburg name. "Complicating matters was that Siegmund thought Pincus the wrong kind of Jew—of Eastern European ancestry, with a garment-district background. Professionally, he thought Pincus well below haute banque stature in the venture capital world."[37]
In January 1970, Siegmund finally got the name changed to E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Company to differentiate it from S.G. Warburg & Company. "In the end, however, Lionel Pincus had the last laugh on Siegmund. He expanded Eric's tiny firm into a giant, thriving business, with three and a half billion dollars of venture capital partnerships."[37]
In 1999, they attempted to purchase English Premier League association football club Everton F.C.[38]
See also
References
- "Everton takeover bid accepted". BBC News. 1999-10-16. Retrieved 2010-01-06.
External links
Parent company | Informa | ||||
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Status | Active | ||||
Founded | 1852 | ||||
Founder | William Francis, Richard Taylor | ||||
Country of origin | United Kingdom | ||||
Headquarters location | Milton Park, Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire United Kingdom | ||||
Distribution | Bookpoint (Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia) self-distributed (the Americas)[1] | ||||
Key people | Annie Callanan (CEO)[2] Jeremy North (MD, Books) Christoph Chesher (Group Sales Director)[3] | ||||
Publication types | Peer-reviewed books & journals | ||||
Nonfiction topics | Humanities, Social Science, Behavioural Science, Education, Law, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, Medicine | ||||
Fiction genres | Non-Fiction. Academic & Scholarly. | ||||
Imprints | Routledge (Humanities, Social science, Education & Law); Taylor & Francis, CRC Press & Garland Science (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) | ||||
Revenue | £556M in 2020 with adjusted operating margin of 38.8%[4] £559.6M in 2019[4] | ||||
No. of employees | 1,600[5] | ||||
Official website | taylorandfran |