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Products |
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Books and subscription products in all media, with a focus on technology,
travel, psychology, architecture, professional culinary, cooking, business, consumer reference, education, and general interest |
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Customers |
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Professionals, consumers, and students worldwide |
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Distribution |
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Multiple channels including major chains and online booksellers globally, independent bookstores,
libraries, colleges and universities, warehouse clubs, corporations, direct marketing, and Web sites |
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Key Brands/ Franchises |
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For Dummies, Jossey-Bass, Frommer's, Betty Crocker, CliffsNotes, Webster's New World, Visual,
Howell Book House, JK Lasser, Bible, Unofficial Guide, Pfeiffer, Wrox, Architectural Graphic Standards, Red Hat, Capstone, Audel
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Fiscal Year 2003 Highlights |
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Global revenues advanced 26%, including acquisitions, to $369 million |
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Gained market share in all our key categories |
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Became the number one publisher in both technology and travel in the United States |
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Successfully integrated Hungry Minds, the largest acquisition in Wiley's history |
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Published 1,450 new titles worldwide |
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Launched graphicstandards.com, a major step in the evolution of the Architectural Graphic Standards franchise |
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Formed a strategic alliance with MindLeaders to extend the For Dummies brand into an online product for the corporate market |
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Signed a licensing agreement with Gemini Industries USA to take the For Dummies brand into a range of computer, home electronics, telephone, and gaming consumer technology products |
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Acquired approximately 250 teacher education titles, representing an important step toward becoming the leading publisher of high-quality resources and ready-to-use tools for school leaders and classroom instructors |
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Acquired 34 best-selling titles from Wrox Press, specializing in computer books for programmers |
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Growth Strategies |
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Continue to build our core publishing programs |
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Optimize results from recent acquisitions |
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Seek niche acquisitions of high-quality lists |
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Expand our branded-program alliances and partnership relationships |
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Leverage our global distribution to optimize sales |
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Journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services in the life and medical
sciences, chemistry, statistics and mathematics, electrical and electronics engineering, and telecommunications
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Customers |
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Academic and corporate librarians, serving scientists, researchers, clinicians, students, and professors worldwide |
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Distribution |
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Multiple channels including library consortia, subscription agents, bookstores, online booksellers, and direct sales to customers |
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Key Brands/ Franchises |
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Wiley, Wiley InterScience, Wiley-VCH, Wiley-Liss |
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Fiscal Year 2003 Highlights |
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Global revenues increased 12% to $309 million |
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Continued to add content and functionality to our Wiley InterScience online service to meet customer needs and drive revenue growth |
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Experienced ongoing growth in Wiley InterScience, as the number of journal articles viewed increased by 70% |
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More than 60% of our journal subscription revenues are now under Wiley InterScience licenses |
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Continued to build our society journal program, winning publishing contracts for European Transactions in Telecommunications; Hepatology; Liver Transplantation; Pharmaceutical Statistics; and Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, among others |
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Renewed or extended our publishing agreements for Cancer, the journal of the American Cancer Society; Cancer Cytopathology; American Journal of Human Biology; Annals of Neurology; Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis; Muscle & Nerve; and Teratology (renamed Birth Defects Research) |
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Published the 40-volume Ullman's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, sixth edition, as well
as other major reference works, online or in print, including Burger's Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery, sixth edition
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Became publishing partner of The Cochrane Collaboration, delivering The Cochrane Library covering a range of medical specialties through Wiley InterScience; The Cochrane Collaboration encompasses 50 research groups that constantly update content to assist health care professionals in making well-informed, evidence-based decisions |
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Began a collaboration with Accelrys on chemistry and bioinformatics database products |
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Growth Strategies |
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Accelerate the market penetration of Wiley InterScience |
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Expand our society journal publishing programs |
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Augment organic growth by acquiring more content |
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Include more book content in Wiley InterScience |
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Educational materials in all media, focused on courses in the sciences, geography, mathematics, engineering, and accounting, with growing positions in business, economics, computer science, psychology, education, and modern languages
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Customers |
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Undergraduate, graduate, and advanced placement students, educators, and lifelong learners worldwide |
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Distribution |
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Multiple channels including college bookstores and online booksellers |
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Key Brands/ Franchises |
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Wiley; Wiley/Jossey-Bass
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Fiscal Year 2003 Highlights |
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Global revenues rose 6% to $176 million |
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Launched our biggest frontlist ever, publishing more than 230 new and revised titles worldwide |
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Continued to adapt U.S. titles for global markets, such as the new Canadian edition of Kimmel: Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision-Making |
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Experienced significantly higher traffic on the Wiley Higher Education Web site, which offers online learning materials on more than 2,300 subsites to support and supplement textbooks |
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Generated revenue from the eGrade and Interactive Homework Edition initiatives |
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Acquired market-leading software Edugen, supporting our ability to develop a robust e-learning platform |
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Signed an agreement with XanEdu, a division of ProQuest, to develop Wiley Business Extra Select, an online custom courseware program that will enable professors to create customized business course materials |
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Acquired Fitzgerald Science Press titles in the life sciences |
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Continued to grow our Faculty Resource Network, a peer-to-peer network of faculty supporting the use of online course material tools and discipline-specific software in the classroom |
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Growth Strategies |
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Continue to build our core publishing programs |
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Increase sales into non-college markets |
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Successfully execute our e-learning strategies |
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Expand the Wiley Custom Publishing program |
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Augment organic growth by acquiring more Higher Education content |