Taylor & Francis Books Inc history

Another prestigious journal was added that same year, when Taylor purchased co-ownership of the Magazine of Zoology and Botany, founded by William Jardine, in 1837.

1851: Taylor forms Taylor & Francis partnership with son William Francis.

Routledge was founded in London in 1852 and became successful as a publisher of fiction geared towards railway travellers.

Informa PLC registered in England & Wales with number 8860726, registered office and head office 5 Howick Place, London, SW1P 1WG, UK. Lloyd's is the registered trade mark of the Society incorporated by the Lloyd's Act 1871 by the name of Lloyd's.

CRC Press had its beginning in the Chemical Rubber Company which was founded in 1903 in Cleveland, Ohio (USA) as a purveyor of rubber laboratory aprons which then expanded to include equipment for chemical laboratories.

By the time of William Francis' death in 1904, Taylor & Francis had become the leading scientific journal printer in the United Kingdom, with the most extensive collection of printing contracts for the nation's most prestigious scientific journals.

He was also a more aggressive businessman, and, in 1917 arranged the purchase of a larger printing firm, Charles Jones & Co., as well as a number of smaller investments.

Yet the company soon found itself in severe financial difficulties--by 1923, the company was posting losses.

In 1936 Taylor & Francis became a private limited company with leading scientists as directors and shareholders.

The appointment of new editors, and especially the well-respected researcher Allan Ferguson, in 1939, proved fundamental in the restoring the journal's reputation.

The new journals revealed the company's growing scientific interests, particularly in new and newly emerging fields, such as ergonomics, for which the company launched the journal Ergonomics in 1957.

1965: The company launches Wykeham Publications and branches out into book publishing.

Mott restored the company's flagship journal to its former standards of editorial excellence and remained its editor-in-chief until 1970, at which time he was appointed chairman of the company itself.

1973: The company acquires printing companies Verstage, based in Basingstoke, and Lancashire Typesetting Co., in Bolton, which adds monotype capacity.

The company responded by appointing a new editor, Nevill Mott, who went on to win a Nobel Prize in 1977.

The company's United States sales already accounted for some 30 percent of its total; in 1982, the company acquired its first United States subsidiary, subsequently moving its United States base to Philadelphia.

Other United States acquisitions followed, such as that of Crane Russak & Co., added in 1985.

1988: The company acquires Hemisphere Publishing, formerly part of Harper & Row, in United States, and company is renamed Taylor & Francis Group.

1990: The company sells off its printing operations.

In 1994, the company bought Accelerated Development Inc., based in the United States, a psychology specialist.

In 1998, Taylor & Francis acquired Routledge and the merged company became one of the top five research publishers globally.

In 2000, the company signed on New York's Versaware Inc. to digitize its entire backlist book catalog.

The company's new big prey came in February 2001, when Taylor & Francis paid £22.8 million for Gordon & Breach, adding another 250 journals and a number of books, including the best-selling Molecular Biology of the Cell.

In 2003, CRC Press was acquired.

In 2004, Taylor & Francis merged with Informa and has been the academic publishing division of Informa plc since then.

The most recent major acquisition by Taylor & Francis was F1000 in 2020.