The company took full control of its Australian operations in , and used its Melbourne base to expand into Japan, and later into other Asian markets. Blackwell also moved into the North American market, notably through the acquisition of Richard Abel, an important supplier to the library market that had gone bankrupt.
That purchase led to the formation of Blackwell North America in Back at home, Blackwell's book publishing business acquired Martin Robertson.
Under Martin, that company, which would become Blackwell Publishers in , shifted its primary focus to the academic book market, helping to establish the company as a world leader.
In another expansion effort, the company founded University Bookshops, a joint venture with Oxford University, in order to supply academic books to the growing number of new universities in the United Kingdom. By then, Blackwell's had undergone a changing of the guard, following Richard Blackwell's death in , and Basil Blackwell's death in The company remained firmly in the Blackwell family's hands, and members of the family remained active in the company's direction as well. Through the end of the decade, the group's expansion continued, particularly through acquisitions, which permitted the company to enter the French and German markets.
The company also developed a new subsidiary operation, Blackwell Healthare Communication, which partnered with and targeted the pharmaceutical industry. Blackwell Publishers, in the meantime, had begun increasingly to target the North American market, in an effort to establish itself as a world leader in a number of publishing segments. As a result, the company captured the world lead in the social sciences and humanities segments by the middle of the s.
This purchase helped shift the group's focus, with more than half of its revenues coming from North America by the early s. Blackwell had in the meantime begun to explore new horizons, and especially the growing Internet market. In , the company launched its own online effort, Blackwell Synergy, providing online access to the full text of its journals. Throughout the s and into the s, Blackwell also moved to increase its portfolio of titles; by the middle of the s, the company more than doubled its title list, topping in A major part of this effort came through partnerships with small university presses or private publishers which turned over the publication of their journals to Blackwell.
At the same time, Blackwell continued to acquire other publishers, including Futura Publishing Company and its 42 journals, purchased in Until the early s, Blackwell Publishers and Blackwell Science had operated as separate companies under the Blackwell family's control.
In , however, the two companies were merged under a single holding company, Blackwell Publishing Ltd. The move seemed to spark a family feud, as members of the Blackwell family began to disagree about the company's direction and even found themselves faced with a hostile takeover offer.
The company remained in the Blackwell family's control, however, and remained committed to its status as a private company. Blackwell Science launches Blackwell Healthcare Communication Ltd, a pharmeceutical communication company. After some discussion, the Blackwell family decides to refuse the offer. Blackwell acquires Brandywine Press, publisher of college textbooks in American history and American literature. Website: www. Document Status Indicators The Green document status indicator indicates that the document is: a current in the Construction Information Service and b the latest version - ie it does not have any other documents that replace or amend it and is promoted as a current document by the publisher.
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