M&A Deal Summary

The Sheridan Group Acquires PubFactory

On May 30, 2017, The Sheridan Group acquired digital media company PubFactory from O Reilly Media

Acquisition Highlights

This is The Sheridan Group’s 1st transaction in the Digital Media sector.
This is The Sheridan Group’s 1st transaction in the United States.
This is The Sheridan Group’s 1st transaction in Massachusetts.

M&A Deal Summary
Date	2017-05-30
Target	PubFactory
Sector	Digital Media
Buyer(s)	The Sheridan Group
Sellers(s)	O Reilly Media
Deal Type	Divestiture

Target

PubFactory

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

PubFactory is an online publishing platform for journals, books, and reference works. The PubFactory team has been developing and delivering scholarly publishing technologies since 1999. In 2010, the PubFactory platform officially launched with the deployment of several major Oxford University Press products. This was quickly followed by the International Monetary Fund’s eLibrary and De Gruyter’s journals, books, and database products launching in 2011.

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