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Ingram Book Group Inc company history timeline

1969

After the arrival of a new company president in 1969, the distributor, which had been making about $3 million in trade sales, began a series of innovative programs.

1972

In 1972, Ingram Book built on these gains by developing a microfiche system that provided weekly inventory updates to booksellers.

1973

However, in 1973, Ingram did form a joint venture to build an oil refinery in Louisiana with Northeast Petroleum Industries, Inc.

1975

In 1975, the company formed a joint venture to develop petroleum in Iran.

1976

In October 1976, gross monthly orders reached $1 million for the first time.

1978

In 1978, the Ingrams rearranged the corporate structure of their holdings, and changed the name of their company from Ingram Corporation to Ingram Industries, Inc.

1981

In 1981, Ingram Book branched out from wholesaling to purchase the John Yokley Company, a commercial printer.

1988

Micro D's revenues during that time had shot up to $553 million in 1988.

1992

In March 1992, Ingram strengthened its distribution operations further when the company purchased the Commtron Corporation, a videocassette wholesaler, and merged it with its Ingram Entertainment, Inc. subsidiary, which also distributed videocassettes.

1996

But Ingram Micro got a new CEO, Jerre Stead, formerly of AT&T, in August 1996, and the public offering went off successfully in November.

1996: The company is reorganized; Ingram Micro is spun off as a publicly traded company.

1997

Bronson Ingram had declared that he would retire from the company when he was 65, which would have been in 1997.

2000

By 2000, Ingram Industries had seen its sales grow to over $2 billion.

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