Goff, who joined the Quarto Group in 2022, will step down at the end of the year due to personal reasons. Quarto Group president CK Lau will step in as interim CEO, effective November 1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
Despite a decline in sales, cost controls and a rebound in its custom publishing operation led to a 67% jump in profits for Quarto Group in 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-31 04:00:00 UTC ]
U.K.-based Welbeck Publishing was formed in 2019 by publishing veterans Mark Smith, whose credits include cofounding and serving as CEO of Quercus Books, and Marcus Leaver, one-time CEO of Sterling Publishing and Quarto Group. Sales in 2022 are expected to top £25million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-12-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
The launch of some new imprints and another good year for a number of its most popular series combined to boost sales at Quarto Group by 19%, to $151.5 million, in 2021 over 2020. Adjusted operating profit jumped 51%, to $ 16 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Quarto Group has named former Octopus head Alison Goff its CEO, effective January 2. Goff had been at the Hachette UK division for 21 years before leaving in April 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
Andersen Press has scooped the fiction debut of Katie Cotton, group publisher at the Quarto Group. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-30 21:08:11 UTC ]
Polly Powell, CEO of Quarto Group since September 2020, has resigned. The U.K.-based publisher, which also has a large U.S. presence, will look for a successor on "both sides of the Atlantic," a Quarto executive said. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Quarto Group saw revenue fall 7% year on year in 2020 to $126.9m (£91.5m) although adjusted operating profit increased to $10.6m (£7.6m) in the same period. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-22 10:24:18 UTC ]
The Quarto Group's eco-imprint Ivy Kids will publish When We Went Wild, the first children's book from Isabella Tree, conservationist and author of Wilding (Picador, 2018). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-24 15:30:24 UTC ]
The Quarto Group's Frances Lincoln Children’s Books imprint has added US vice-president-elect Kamala Harris to its Little People, Big Dreams list for 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-15 14:59:22 UTC ]
Katie Bond has made her first three acquisitions for The Quarto Group's Aurum imprint, which she joined as publisher last July. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-11 18:09:58 UTC ]
Katie Bond is departing her role as publisher at the National Trust to become publisher at The Quarto Group's Aurum imprint. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-02 20:04:25 UTC ]
Brighton-based children’s publisher Ivy Kids, part of the Quarto Group, is relaunching as "a sustainable imprint" in 2021 with Georgia Amson-Bradshaw at the helm. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-11 03:50:38 UTC ]
Pavilion Books owner and publisher Polly Powell has started working for the Quarto Group as an advisor to its c.e.o. CK Lau. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-15 23:52:34 UTC ]
The Quarto Group has appointed Viviane Basset and Dannie Price to its UK campaigns and marketing team. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-15 16:04:41 UTC ]
Dominique Raccah, publisher and chief executive of US business Sourcebooks, and Marcus Leaver, former chief executive of the Quarto Group, are to give afternoon keynotes at FutureBook Live, The Bookseller's publishing conference, to be held in London on 30th November. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quarto Group said that as part of a companywide cost cutting program, it is shutting its Minneapolis office and closing its Voyageur Press imprint. The Cool Springs and Motorbooks imprints are continuing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Marcus Leaver has resigned as chief executive from the Quarto Group with immediate effect. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Less than a week after Laurence Orbach returned to the Quarto Group as executive chairman, Marcus Leaver resigned as CEO of the publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
After being ousted as chairman from the Quarto Group in 2012, Laurence Orbach has engineered a returned to the illustrated book publisher where he is now chairman. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]