Holtzbrinck

1843 Macmillan founded

1845 Scientific American established

1873 Henry Holt & Co established

1946 Der Pattlach Verlag

1948 Georg von Holtzbrinck founds Holtzbrinck publishing group

1949 Schneekluth Verlag founded

1973 Holtzbrinck buys O.W. Barth

1989 Holtzbrinck sells Deutscher Bücherbund, the dominant German book club

1994 Holtzbrinck buys Farrar Strauss Giroux

1995 Holtzbrinckbuys 71% of Macmillan for £249m

1995 buys Verlag Moritz Diesterweg

1996 Holtzbrinck buys Boxtree books

1999 Holtzbrinck takes 49% stake in the European Wall Street Journal, with Dow Jones taking 22% stake in Holtzbrinck's Handelsblatt




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