EBSCO Industries
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Conglomerate |
| Founded | 1944 |
| Headquarters | Birmingham, Alabama, USA |
Key people | James T. Stephens (Chairman) Tim Collins (President & CEO) |
| Products | EBSCOhost NetLibrary |
| Revenue |  US$2.5 billion (2015) |
Number of employees | 5,000 (2006) |
| Website | ebscoind.com |
EBSCO Industries is an American company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. It was founded in 1944 by Elton Bryson Stephens, Sr. (hence the EBSCO acronym Elton Bryson Stephens COmpany). EBSCO is one of the largest privately held companies in Alabama, and one of the top 200 in the nation, based on revenues and employee numbers, according to Forbes Magazine.[1]
Company overview
EBSCO was co-founded by Elton Bryson Stephens, Sr. and his wife Alys Robinson Stephens in 1944 to sell magazine subscriptions, personalized binders and magazine racks to the U.S. Armed Forces.[2] They named this "Military Service Company", and over the next decade acquired several other companies that were eventually combined to form EBSCO Industries Inc.
In 2011, EBSCO Publishing took over H. W. Wilson Company.[3][4][5]
EBSCO businesses[6]
- Information services
- EBSCO Information Services
- Flipster[7]
- YBP Library Services (Yankee Book Peddler)
- EBSCO Information Services
- Outdoor products
- PRADCO Outdoor Brands {Plastic Research And Development COrporation)
- Code Blue
- Commonwealth Productions
- Knight and Hale
- Moultrie
- PRADCO Fishing
- Summit Treestands
- Wingscapes
- Manufacturing
- EBSCO Media
- EBSCO Sign Group
- Luxor (merged with H. Wilson)(H. Wilson Company was founded by Howard Wilson in 1959)
- MCM Group (Midwest College Marketing)
- The Promotional Products Group
- Crown Products
- Vitronic Promotional Group
- Siegel Display Products
- Valley Joist
- Vulcan Industries
- Vulcan Information Packaging
- General services
- EBSCO Creative Concepts
- Publishers' Warehouse
- S.S. Nesbitt & Company (founded by Steven Scott Nesbitt)
- Publishing services
- The Publishing Services Division
- EBSCO Professional Partnership Group
- EBSCO Reception Room Subscription Services
- EBSCO Research
- Grand View Media Group
- Magazine Express
- PPF (Publisher Promotion & Fulfillment)
- Vulcan Service
- Real estate
- Alys Beach
- EBSCO Income Properties
- Mt. Laurel
References
- ^ "The largest private companies". Forbes. November 9, 2006.
- ^ "EBSCO Industries, Inc. - History". Ebscoind.com. Retrieved 2013-08-31.
- ^ "EBSCO Publishing and The H.W. Wilson Company Make Joint Announcement of Merger Agreement". hwwilson.com (Press release). June 1, 2011. Retrieved August 24, 2011.
- ^ Barrett, William P. (December 29, 1997). "Mousetrapped". Forbes.
- ^ "H.W. Wilson Company". The New York Times.
- ^ "EBSCO Industries, Inc". Ebscoind.com. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
- ^ "Flipster". EBSCO.com.