American book publisher
Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. was a division of the Meredith Publishing Company . It is a result of the merger of Appleton-Century Company with F.S. Crofts Co. in 1948. Prior to that The Century Company had merged with D. Appleton & Company in 1933.
The Century Company and its subsequent incarnations published the New Century Dictionary .
Eventually Meredith sold the majority of the company and the Appleton name to Prentice-Hall in 1973.[ 1] Part of the company became part of Hawthorn Books and New Win Publishing.
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 [ 2]
1969 Meredith trade books division sold to Hawthorn Books
1973 Appleton textbook division purchased by Prentice Hall ; the medical division retains the Appleton name[ 3]
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 [ 4]
2003 Academic Learning Company, LLC acquired New Win Publishing, which was a division of New Century Publishing Century vagabond books of travel New Century Dictionary . (1963). ii. New York:Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.