Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals. Its parts include Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, Routledge, F1000 Research and Dovepress.[9] It is a division of Informa plc, a United Kingdom-based publisher and conference company.[10]
Parent company
Active
1852
William Francis, Richard Taylor
United Kingdom
Milton Park, Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire United Kingdom
Peer-reviewed books & journals
Non-Fiction. Academic & Scholarly.
Routledge (Humanities, Social science, Education & Law); Taylor & Francis, CRC Press & Garland Science (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
1,600[8]
Overview[edit]
Founding[edit]
The company was founded in 1852 when William Francis joined Richard Taylor in his publishing business. Taylor had founded his company in 1798. Their subjects covered agriculture, chemistry, education, engineering, geography, law, mathematics, medicine, and social sciences.[11]
Francis's son, Richard Taunton Francis (1883–1930), was sole partner in the firm from 1917 to 1930.[12]
Acquisitions and mergers[edit]
In 1965, Taylor & Francis launched Wykeham Publications and began book publishing. T&F acquired Hemisphere Publishing in 1988, and the company was renamed Taylor & Francis Group to reflect the growing number of imprints. Taylor & Francis left the printing business in 1990, to concentrate on publishing. In 1998 it went public on the London Stock Exchange and in the same year bought its academic publishing rival Routledge for £90 million.[13] Acquisition of other publishers has remained a core part of the group's business strategy.[13] It merged with Informa in 2004 to create a new company called T&F Informa, since renamed back to Informa.[13] Following the merger, T&F closed the historic Routledge office at New Fetter Lane in London, and moved to its current headquarters in Milton Park, Oxfordshire.[14]
Company figures[edit]
The group has about 1,800 employees[37] in at least 18 offices worldwide. Its head office is in Milton Park, Abingdon in the United Kingdom, with other offices in Stockholm, Leiden, New York, Boca Raton, Philadelphia, Kentucky, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Melbourne, Sydney, Cape Town, Tokyo and New Delhi.[37][38]
Taylor & Francis reported a mean 2017 gender pay gap of 24.2% for its UK workforce, while the median was 8%. The fact that the average pay for women is significantly worse than the median pay (compared to men's) shows that women are underrepresented in the positions with the highest pay.[39]