Appleton-Century-Crofts

Timeline

• 1948 Appleton-Century Company, founded in 1933, merged with F. S. Crofts Co., founded in 1924, to form Appleton-Century-Crofts.
• 1960 Purchased by Meredith Publishing Company
• 1969 Meredith trade books division sold to Hawthorn Books
• 1973 Appleton textbook division purchased by Prentice Hall; the medical division retains the Appleton name
• 1974 New Century division sold to Charles Walther, and was later renamed New Win Publishing
• 1998 Prentice Hall merged with Pearson Education
• 1999 Pearson Education sells successor company Appleton & Lange to McGraw-Hill
• 2003 Academic Learning Company, LLC acquired New Win Publishing, which was a division of New Century Publishing

  Imprints

• Century vagabond books of travel