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Robert Maxwell’s U.S. textbook holdings centered on his 1988–89 acquisitions and deals: he bought Macmillan Inc. in 1988 for roughly $2.6 billion and acquired Science Research Associates (SRA) from IB...
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 built his academic-publishing foothold by buying a small scientific house in 1951—three-quarters of Butterworth‑Springer—which he renamed Pergamon Press and expanded through aggressive ...
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 built a U.S. education-publishing footprint by buying Macmillan Inc. in 1988 and acquiring Science Research Associates earlier, then merging Macmillan’s K–12 units with McGraw‑Hill in a...
Robert Maxwell’s U.S. textbook footprint in the late 1980s and early 1990s centered on his acquisition of Macmillan Inc. (which included sizable school and college operations) and targeted purchases c...
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 ...
The 1989 /McGraw‑Hill joint venture was structured as an equal, 50–50 general partnership combining elementary, secondary and vocational textbook operations, headquartered in , with named president an...
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,...