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Robert Maxwell’s publishing empire in the 1980s and early 1990s included several imprints and companies that produced textbooks and school materials — most prominently Macmillan (U.S.) after Maxwell a...
Robert Maxwell’s principal and documented U.S. school‑textbook holding was , which he acquired in the late 1980s and which formed the core of his U.S. textbook interests; that asset was later folded i...
Robert Maxwell, the British media proprietor who died in 1991, entered a formal joint venture with McGraw-Hill in 1989 that combined major K–12 textbook assets into Macmillan/McGraw‑Hill School Publis...
Robert Maxwell’s entry into U.S. educational publishing via major acquisitions and a 1989 joint venture with McGraw‑Hill created a that plausibly affected which textbooks circulated in schools, but th...
Robert Maxwell’s U.S. educational-publishing holdings clustered around two principal assets: Science Research Associates (SRA), which he bought from IBM and called “the centerpiece” of his U.S. educat...
Robert Maxwell’s death in November 1991 triggered the rapid unravelling of his media empire: Maxwell Communication Corporation (MCC) and related holdings effectively collapsed, revelations followed th...
Robert Maxwell built a U.S. publishing foothold primarily through large acquisitions in the 1980s—notably buying Macmillan Inc. and the Official Airline Guides (OAG) after earlier expanding Pergamon a...
Robert Maxwell’s ownership shifted several U.S. textbook imprints into larger, consolidated corporate structures and prompted aggressive commercial strategies — notably the 1989 Macmillan/McGraw-Hill ...
Robert Maxwell’s expansion in the 1980s turned Pergamon and related holdings into a major presence in academic, professional and school publishing, culminating in large U.S. acquisitions such as Macmi...
Robert Maxwell built a sprawling, international publishing and media empire that by the late 1980s and early 1990s encompassed newspapers, trade and academic publishers, directories, language schools,...
Robert Maxwell’s media empire in the 1980s and into the early 1990s comprised a mix of newspaper groups, academic and trade publishers, language‑instruction chains, directories and related information...
Robert Maxwell’s death in 1991 triggered the collapse and breakup of his publishing empire, including Macmillan, which was sold off in pieces amid revelations of massive debt and fraud; . Investigatio...
Robert Maxwell’s death in 1991 precipitated the rapid unraveling of his media and publishing empire, exposing massive debts and alleged embezzlement that forced bank interventions and asset sales; his...