EBSCO Industries

EBSCO Industries, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Conglomerate
Founded	1944
Headquarters	Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Key people	James T. Stephens (Chairman) Tim Collins (President & CEO)
Products	EBSCOhost NetLibrary
Revenue	US$2.5 billion (2015)
Number of employees	5,000 (2006)
Website	ebscoind.com

EBSCO Industries is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. It was founded in 1944 by Elton Bryson Stephens, Sr. (hence the EBSCO acronym Elton Bryson Stephens COmpany). EBSCO is one of the largest privately held companies in Alabama, and one of the top 200 in the nation, based on revenues and employee numbers, according to Forbes Magazine.^[1]

Company overview

EBSCO was co-founded by Elton Bryson Stephens, Sr. and his wife Alys Robinson Stephens in 1944 to sell magazine subscriptions, personalized binders and magazine racks to the U.S. Armed Forces.^[2] They named this "Military Service Company", and over the next decade acquired several other companies that were eventually combined to form EBSCO Industries Inc.

In 2011, EBSCO Publishing took over H. W. Wilson Company.^[3][4][5]

EBSCO businesses^[6]

• Information services
  • EBSCO Information Services
  • YBP Library Services
• Outdoor products
  • PRADCO Outdoor Brands
  • Code Blue
  • Commonwealth Productions
  • Knight and Hale
  • Moultrie
  • PRADCO Fishing
  • Summit Treestands
  • Wingscapes
• Manufacturing
  • EBSCO Media
  • EBSCO Sign Group
  • H. Wilson
  • Luxor
  • MCM Group
  • The Promotional Products Group
  • Crown Products
  • Vitronic Promotional Group
  • Siegel Display Products
  • Valley Joist
  • Vulcan Industries
  • Vulcan Information Packaging
• General services
  • EBSCO Creative Concepts
  • Publishers' Warehouse
  • S.S. Nesbitt & Company
• Publishing services
  • The Publishing Services Division
  • EBSCO Professional Partnership Group
  • EBSCO Reception Room Subscription Services
  • EBSCO Research
  • Grand View Media Group
  • Magazine Express
  • Metapress
  • PPF
  • Vulcan Service
• Real estate
  • Alys Beach
  • EBSCO Income Properties
  • Mt. Laurel

References

1. "The largest private companies". Forbes. November 9, 2006.
2. "EBSCO Industries, Inc. - History". Ebscoind.com. Retrieved 2013-08-31.
3. "EBSCO Publishing and The H.W. Wilson Company Make Joint Announcement of Merger Agreement". hwwilson.com (Press release). June 1, 2011. Retrieved August 24, 2011.
4. Barrett, William P. (December 29, 1997). "Mousetrapped". Forbes.
5. "H.W. Wilson Company". The New York Times.
6. "EBSCO Industries, Inc". Ebscoind.com. Retrieved February 17, 2015.

External links

• EBSCO Industries official web site
• Funding Universe profile