Appleton-Century-Crofts

Appleton-Century-Crofts
Status	Defunct
Founded	1948
Successor	Appleton & Lange (medical); Prentice Hall (textbooks); Hawthorn Books (trade)
Country of origin	United States

Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. was a division of the Meredith Publishing Company. It is a result of the merger of Appleton-Century Company with F.S. Crofts Co. in 1948. Prior to that The Century Company had merged with D. Appleton & Company in 1933.

The Century Company and its subsequent incarnations published the New Century Dictionary.

Eventually Meredith sold the majority of the company and the Appleton name to Prentice-Hall in 1973.^[1] Part of the company became part of Hawthorn Books and New Win Publishing.

Timeline

1948 Appleton-Century Company, founded in 1933, merged with F. S. Crofts Co., founded in 1924, to form Appleton-Century-Crofts.
1960 Purchased by Meredith Publishing Company^[2]
1969 Meredith trade books division sold to Hawthorn Books
1973 Appleton textbook division purchased by Prentice Hall; the medical division retains the Appleton name^[3]
1974 New Century division sold to Charles Walther, and was later renamed New Win Publishing
1998 Prentice Hall merged with Pearson Education
1999 Pearson Education sells successor company Appleton & Lange to McGraw-Hill^[4]
2003 Academic Learning Company, LLC acquired New Win Publishing, which was a division of New Century Publishing

Imprints

Century vagabond books of travel

References

^ Gelder, Lawrence Van (1973-11-11). "Main Operations of Appleton Sold". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
^ "PUBLISHER READY TO BUY APPLETON; Meredith Offers $7,000,000 for Book Concern Here -- Plan Given Approval". The New York Times. 1960-10-12. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
^ Gelder, Lawrence Van (1973-11-11). "Main Operations of Appleton Sold". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
^ "McGraw-Hill to buy Appleton & Lange". 17 May 1999. Retrieved 2018-05-13.