| 1990 | Charles R. Ellis succeeds Ruth McMullin as President and Chief Executive Officer. |
| 1993 | Brad Wiley II succeeds his father as Chairman of the Board. |
| 1995 | Wiley establishes wiley.com, the Company’s Web site. It continues to evolve, providing access to Wiley content, products, and services, such as Wiley InterScience. |
| 1996 | Wiley acquires a 90% interest in VCH, an important scientific, technical, and professional publisher based in Weinheim. |
| 1997 | Wiley acquires Van Nostrand Reinhold (VNR), an eminent publishing imprint of books and electronic products for professionals in architecture/design, environmental/industrial science, culinary arts/hospitality, and business technology. |
| 1998 | William J. Pesce is named President and Chief Executive Officer, becoming the tenth leader of the Company. He contributes significantly to the growth and profitability of the Company’s global publishing program. Wiley is selected as one of the “most respected companies” with “a strong and well thought out strategy,” by the Financial Times in a global survey of Chief Executive Officers. |
| 1999 | Wiley commercially launches Wiley InterScience, which provides online access to journals, major reference works, and books, as well as such key resources as the Cochrane Library of evidence-based medicine databases. Later, Wiley will later undertake an initiative to digitize all its journal backfile holdings. When completed, Wiley InterScience will be one of the largest archives of its kind with content dating back to 1799, and over 1.6 million articles of scholarly and scientific research. |
| 1999 | Wiley acquires Pearson Education’s college textbooks and instructional packages in biology/anatomy and physiology; engineering; mathematics; economics/finance; and teacher education; the San Francisco-based Jossey-Bass, a publisher of books and journals for professionals and executives in business, psychology, education, and health management; and the J.K Lasser tax and financial guides, to enhance its already strong presence in the financial planning market. |
| 2001 | Wiley acquires Hungry Minds, Inc., the Company's largest acquisition to date. Through it, a portfolio of high profile brands comes under the Wiley umbrella, including the For Dummies series, the Webster’s New World™ dictionaries and CliffsNotes™ study guides, the Frommer’s™ travel guides, and the Betty Crocker® and Weight Watchers® cookbooks. |
| 2002 | Peter Booth Wiley is installed as Chairman, succeeding Brad Wiley II, who continues to serve as a Board member. Wiley relocates its global headquarters from New York City to a new building on the waterfront in Hoboken, New Jersey. |
| 2003 | Working Mother magazine lists Wiley as one of the “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers”. The Company also receives the Enterprise Award from the New Jersey Business & Industry Association in recognition of the contribution to the state’s economic growth. |
| 2005 | FORTUNE magazine names Wiley to its list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.” Wiley receives this distinction for the second consecutive year in 2006. |
| 2006 | Wiley acquires outstanding shares of Wiley Dreamtech (India) Private Ltd., and renames it Wiley India Private Ltd. The acquisition enables Wiley to strengthen its presence in India. |
| 2006 | Wiley Canada is named to Canadian Business magazine's 2006 list of "Best Workplaces in Canada," and Wiley Australia receives the Australian government's "Employer of Choice for Women" citation as it has every year since its inception in 2001. Wiley reaches a significant milestone in fiscal year 2006, reporting revenue of $1 billion. In November, Wiley enters into a definitive agreement to acquire the outstanding shares of Blackwell Publishing (Holdings) Ltd., completing the acquisition in February 2007. The new merged business, Wiley-Blackwell, unites Wiley’s STM business with Blackwell Publishing. The combined business will be formidable, publishing approximately 1,250 scholarly peer-reviewed journals (over 1 million pages) and an extensive collection of books with global appeal. |
| 2007 | Wiley celebrates 200 years of publishing. |
