List of 43 Acquired Publishing Companies in California

Name	Sector	Revenue $mlns	M&A Activity			Last 5 Years
Name	Sector	Revenue $mlns	Total	Buy	Sell	Last 5 Years
Freedom Communications, Inc. Acquired Orange County Media LLC 2016-03-17 $56M Santa Ana, California, United States website	Publishing	-	4	1	3
HighWire Press Acquired MPS 2020-01-07 Redwood City, California, United States website	Publishing	-	1	1	-
MLIM LLC Acquired Tribune Publishing 2015-05-07 $85M San Diego, California, United States	Publishing	-	1	1	-
Trend Offset Printing Acquired Mittera Group 2021-01-25 Los Alamitos, California, United States website	Publishing	-	1	1	-
Tiger Oak's Meetings + Events Division Acquired Greenspring Media 2022-01-25 California, United States	Publishing	-	-	-	-
Access Print & Copy Acquired Tautachrome, Inc. 2016-03-02 Los Angeles, California, United States website	Publishing	-	-	-	-
Creative Age Publications, Inc. Acquired Allured Business Media 2020-07-15 Van Nuys, California, United States website	Publishing	-	-	-	-
The RWSG Literary Agency (Rabineau Wachter Sanford & Gillett) Acquired Endeavor 2016-08-22 Los Angeles, California, United States website	Publishing	-	-	-	-
Jumpstart Automotive Group Acquired Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc. 2007-05-16 San Francisco, California, United States website	Publishing	-	-	-	-
Hawthorne Books Acquired Catapult 2025-11-21 Portland, California, United States website	Publishing	-	-	-	-
Kelley Blue Book Co., Inc. Acquired Autotrader 2010-12-15 Irvine, California, United States website	Publishing	-	-	-	-
Zest Books Acquired Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 2018-11-26 San Franciso, California, United States website	Publishing	-	-	-	-
Prospect Park Books Acquired Turner Publishing Co. 2021-01-31 Altadena, California, United States website	Publishing	-	-	-	-
Scobre Press Corp. Acquired Lightswitch Learning 2017-01-17 La Jolla, California, United States website	Publishing	-	-	-	-
Callisto Media Acquired Penguin Random House LLC 2023-05-09 Emeryville, California, United States website	Publishing	-	-	-	-
TransWestern Publishing Co. LLC Acquired Yellow Book USA, Inc. 2005-07-21 $1.575B San Diego, California, United States	Publishing	-	-	-	-

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