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Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults, including the Best American series (annual collections of previously-published fiction and non-fiction). A textbook is a manual of instruction or a standard book in any branch of study This article is about a kind of publication Reference work may also refer to the work that librarians perform at a Library reference desk. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as Fact. The Best American Series is an annually-published collection of books The company is part of the Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group.

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Company history

In 1832, William Ticknor and James Thomas Fields had gathered an impressive list of writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Year 1832 ( MDCCCXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian William Davis Ticknor ( August 6 1810 - April 10 1864) was an American publisher in Boston Massachusetts, USA and a founder of James Thomas Fields (December 31 1817 – April 24 1881 was an American publisher and author Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25 1803 &ndash April 27 1882 was an American essayist philosopher poet and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4 1804 – May 19 1864 was an American novelist and Short story writer The duo formed a close relationship with Riverside Press, a Boston printing company owned by Henry Oscar Houghton. Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational Publisher in the United States. Henry Oscar Houghton (April 30 1823 - August 25 1895 was an American Publisher, co-founder of Houghton Mifflin, and a mayor of Cambridge Massachusetts Shortly after, Houghton also founded a publishing company with partner George Mifflin. In 1880, Ticknor and Fields and Houghton and Mifflin merged their operations, combining the literary works of writers with the expertise of a publisher and creating a new partnership named Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Literature is the Art of written works Literally translated the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view

Shortly thereafter the company established an Educational Department, and from 1891 to 1908 sales of educational materials increased by 500 percent. Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1908 ( MCMVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Soon after 1916, Houghton Mifflin became involved in publishing standardized tests and testing materials, working closely with such test developers as E. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a consistent manner F. Lindquist. The company was the fourth-largest educational publisher in the United States in 1921. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Today, the company has combined its assessment products within Riverside Publishing, including San Francisco-based Edusoft. Houghton Mifflin sold its professional testing unit, Promissor, to Pearson plc in 2006. Pearson plc () is a London -based media conglomerate. It is the largest book Publisher in the UK, India, Australia

In 1967, Houghton Mifflin became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol HTN. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE) is a Stock exchange based in New York City. The company is currently privately held and no longer trades under this symbol.

During the 1990s, Houghton Mifflin acquired both McDougal Littell, an educational publisher of secondary school materials, and D.C. Heath and Company, a publisher of supplemental educational resources. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational Publisher in the United States. DC Heath and Company is a small publishing company located at 125 Spring Street in Lexington Massachusetts. In 1996, the company created their Great Source Education Group to combine the supplemental material product lines of their School Division and these two companies. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar)

In 2001, Houghton Mifflin was acquired by French media giant Vivendi Universal. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. VIVENDI is a software package for care management and staff organisation published by the German software company CONNEXT and introduced in 1995 In 2002, facing mounting financial and legal pressures, Vivendi sold Houghton to private equity investors Thomas H. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. In Finance, private equity is an Asset class consisting of equity Securities in operating companies that are not Publicly traded on Lee Partners, Bain Capital, and The Blackstone Group. Bain Capital LLC is a Boston -based Private equity firm founded in 1984 by partners from the consulting firm Bain & Company. Among the most prestigious private equity and investment management firms in the world The Blackstone Group' ( is a company that provides Private equity, financial advisory

On December 22, 2006, it was announced that Riverdeep PLC had completed its acquisition of Houghton Mifflin. Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Riverdeep Interactive Learning originally started as a publishing house for educational online and CD-ROM products based in San Francisco and Dublin Ireland A Public Limited Company ( PLC, plc or plc or p l c is a type of Limited company in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland which is The new joint enterprise would be called the Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group. Riverdeep paid $1. 75 billion in cash and assumed $1. 61 billion in debt from the private investment firms Thomas H. Lee Partners, Bain Capital Partners and The Blackstone Group. [1] Tony Lucki, a former non-executive director of Riverdeep, will remain in his position as Houghton Mifflin's chief executive officer. [2]

On July 16, 2007 Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep announced that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Harcourt Education, Harcourt Trade and Greenwood-Heinemann divisions of Reed Elsevier for $4 billion. This acquisition is pending regulatory approval.

On December 3, 2007, Cengage Learning (formerly Thomson Learning) announced that it had agreed to acquire the assets of the Houghton Mifflin College Division for $750 million, pending regulatory approval.

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  1. ^ "Irish company completes Houghton Mifflin acquisition", Associated Press, 22 December 2006. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Evanston Illinois is an affluent suburban Chicago Municipality on Lake Michigan on the North Shore in Cook County, Illinois directly The State of Indiana ( was the 19th US state admitted into the union Itasca is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The City of New York New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. St Charles is an affluent city in Kane and DuPage counties of Illinois, United States, and is roughly 40 miles west of Chicago on The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. For other towns and places named Wilmington see Wilmington. Wilmington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States The Associated Press ( AP) is an American News agency. The AP is a Cooperative owned by its contributing Newspapers radio
  2. ^ Edgecliffe-Johnson, Andrew and Peter Smith. "Riverdeep in talks over $3.5bn takeover of Houghton Mifflin", Financial Times, 25 October 2006.

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