THE GALE GROUP ACQUIRES K.G. SAUR FROM REED ELSEVIER.The Gale Group See Thomson Gale. (Farmington Hills Far·ming·ton Hills A city of southeast Michigan, an industrial suburb of Detroit. Population: 81,400. , MI), a producer of over 600 databases of aggregated magazine and newspaper articles and a unit of Thomson Corp. (Toronto, ON), has acquired K.G. Saur (Munich, Ger.) from Reed Elsevier. Terms of the deal, subject to German government approval, were not given. K.G. Saur is a reference publisher specializing in information for use in libraries. Established in 1949, the company has 90 employees and produces more than 2000 reference works in print, microfilm A continuous film strip that holds several thousand miniaturized document pages. See micrographics.  Microfilm and Microfiche and electronic formats. The company was acquired by Reed Reference Publishing division Butterworth's in 1987. Gale Group said Saur will continue to operate as a separate unit. Noting that, like Gale Group, K.G. Saur provides reference information in such areas as the humanities, biography and general reference, Gale Group ceo Allen Al·len , Edgar 1892-1943. American anatomist who is noted for his studies of hormones and for the discovery (1923) of estrogen. Paschal said "but Saur's presence is in different geographical areas. International expansion is one of our key growth strategies and this acquisition makes Gale the leading international reference publisher." Other Gale units include Macmillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner's Sons Charles Scribner's Sons is a publisher that was founded in 1846 at the Brick Church Chapel on New York's Park Row. The firm published Scribner's Magazine for many years. Scribner's is well known for publishing Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert A. , Primary Source Microfilm, UXL, Thorndike Press and Graham & Whiteside. |
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