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Harcourt (/ ˈ h ɑːr k ɔːr t /) was an American publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. It was known at different stages in its history as Harcourt Brace, & Co. and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. From 1919 to 1982, it was based in New York City. [1]
In 1905, John Bateman Harcourt’s sons Stanton and Gordon joined the company. In 1929, Gordon founded his own company, Gordon Harcourt Ltd, while Stanton headed Harcourt & Co. After Stanton's retirement in the 1950s, Hec Fisher headed the company. In 1980 Harcourt & Co expanded into Auckland and announced listing on the Stock Exchange. [5]
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HD Supply Holdings, Inc. (formerly Maintenance Warehouse) is an industrial distributor in North America. The company provides a broad range of products and value-added services to approximately 250,000 professional customers in maintenance, repair and operations, infrastructure and power and specialty construction sectors. [ 4 ]
That year, William Jovanovich, who had become president of the company in 1954, took the company public and merged Harcourt Brace & Company with World Book Company to create Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. This was a strategic move that had a long-term impact on the company because World Book was an established elementary textbook publisher and a ...
The Jefferson–Chalmers Historic Business District is a neighborhood located on East Jefferson Avenue between Eastlawn Street and Alter Road in Detroit, Michigan.The district is the only continuously intact commercial district remaining along East Jefferson Avenue, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
One Campus Martius is a building located in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It began construction in 2000 and was finished in 2003. It began construction in 2000 and was finished in 2003. It has seventeen floors in total, fifteen above-ground, and two below-ground, and has 1,088,000 square feet (100,000 m 2 ) of office space.
In July 2007, Reed Elsevier (an information and publishing group) offloaded Harcourt US Schools Education business to Houghton Mifflin, Inc. for $4.0 billion, with $3.7 billion payable in cash and $0.3 billion payable in common stock of Houghton Mifflin, Inc. [6] Houghton Mifflin was privately held.