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Renaissance Learning company history timeline

1992

By 1992, Advantage Learning had annual sales of $3.2 million.

1996

In 1996, it purchased a small publisher of math software in Vancouver, Washington, called IPS Publishing.

Sales for 1996 rose to $22.4 million, up from $3.2 million just four years earlier.

1997

The Pauls sold 20 percent of their company in the September 1997 public offering.

1999

The principal of a troubled school in Chicago was quoted in Forbes (March 22, 1999) explaining how she promised her students she would kiss a pig if they racked up a certain point total on Accelerated Reader by the end of a year.

Fear of Scholastic’s encroachment apparently spooked investors, and Renaissance’s stock went through rapid swings in 1999.

Renaissance introduced nine new software products in 1999 and acquired three new software firms.

2000

——, “Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.-Based Software Maker Acquires Canadian Firm,” Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News, January 3, 2000.

According to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance (November 2000), industry analysts who followed Renaissance’s stock predicted the company would see long-term profit growth of 35 percent a year.

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