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The Pequot Press, whose name was adapted from a local Indian tribe, was founded in 1947 as an adjunct to the Stonington Printing Company in Stonington, Connecticut. Twenty years later, in 1967, the new owner brought the still small publishing company down the coastline to Essex, Connecticut and styled it as a publisher to the historical societies and assisted neighboring towns and other local groups with their publishing requirements. In 1970 the company moved to Chester, Connecticut and expanded the basic publishing program to books of New England history, biography, architecture, antiques, genealogy and travel. The company published an average of 15 new books per year, including trade paperback editions of Guide to the Recommended Country Inns of New England and Factory Store Guide to New England. The Boston Globe Newspaper Company purchased the Press in February, 1981, formalizing an association that had begun in 1978, when the company name was changed to The Globe Pequot Press. The current president, Linda Kennedy, joined Globe Pequot in the same year. Since 1979 the company has grown at an average annual rate of 25%, through organic growth of the core-publishing program. In 1986 Globe purchased a similar regional publishing company in the Southeast, East Woods Press and in 1987, 20 titles were purchased from Pacific Search Press, a publisher located in the Pacific Northwest. With the acquisition of the award-winning international city and country guides from Cadogan Books p.l.c. of London, England, Gateway Books, ICS Books and most recently Falcon Publishing and Lyons Press, Globe Pequot Press is now the largest publisher of regional travel in the United States, with an exceptional concentration in the outdoor recreation specialty. In the late 1980s the company began an international expansion of its product offerings by distributing some of the most respected brand names in travel publishing, each with an identifiable editorial specialty. These specialties include: Appalachian Mountain Club Books of Boston, Massachusetts, Ducks Unlimited, of Memphis, Tennessee, Everyman Chess of London, England, Day Hikes Books, Inc., of Pismo Beach, California, Menasha Ridge Press of Birmingham, Alabama, Mobil Travel Guides of Park Ridge, Illinois, New Holland Publishers of London, England, Oval Books of London, England, Special Hotels of London, England, Thomas Cook Publishing of Peterborough, England, Trailblazer publications of Surrey, England, Vacation Works Publications of Oxford, England, Waterford Press Ltd. of Chandler Arizona, Western Horseman of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Woodall Publications of Ventura, California. Globe is also the North American co-publisher for Alastair Sawday Publishing Co. Ltd of Bristol, England and Bradt Travel Guides of Bucks, England. In 1992 Globe Pequot Press relocated to a custom-designed building in Old Saybrook, Connecticut consolidating all publishing and fulfillment operations into one 30,000 square foot facility. In May of 1988, Globe Pequot became a subsidiary of McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. of Kirland, Washington, which in 1994 in turn was acquired by AT&T of Basking Ridge, New Jersey and renamed AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. On April 11, 1997, Globe Pequot was purchased by Morris Communications Corporation, based in Augusta, Georgia. Morris Communications Corporation is a privately held company with nationwide, diversified holdings in newspaper and magazine publishing, radio, outdoor advertising and computer services. Morris Communication Corp. continues to build on its successful 212 years of history through expansion and diversification in the communications industry. Globe moved once again in November of 1999, and began the new century in enlarged executive offices based in Guilford, Connecticut to accommodate its burgeoning staff, with a new warehousing facility centrally located in Springfield, Tennessee. Today, more than fifty years after the publication of its first monograph, The Globe Pequot Press has established an international reputation for publication of outstanding regional guides to a myriad of travel destinations in this country and around the world and is among the top three sources for travel books in the United States. Globe employs a full time staff in excess of 130 personnel who publish, market, promote and distribute a list of approximately 600 new books each year. In addition to publishing its own imprint, it offers marketing and fulfillment services to client publishers whose combined annual output currently exceeds 200 new titles. Its 75,000 square foot warehouse holds well over one million units representing a total of approximately 4,000 titles in print, comprising books on domestic and international travel, outdoor recreation, sports, how-to, history, fiction, health and fitness, cooking, and nature.

 

Address: 246 Goose Lane, P.O. Box 480, Guilford, CT 06437
Telephone: (203) 458-4500
Fax: 1-800-820-2329
Website: http://www.globepequot.com/globepequot/