Grace's Guide
British Industrial History
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 144,997 pages of information and 230,624 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
International Publishing Corporation
From Graces Guide
Early 1960s, Odhams Press was acquired by the Mirror Group Newspapers, along with the George Newnes Co and Amalgamated Press; the three companies were merged to form International Publishing Corporation (IPC).
1963 Rank sold its holding in British Relay Wireless and Television, which it had acquired with Murphy, to International Publishing Corporation[1].
1970 Acquired by Reed Group. IPC already had a substantial holding in Reed shares. Reed supplied nearly half of IPC's newsprint[2]. The combined company changed its name to Reed International[3]
See Also
- [1] Wikipedia