Finney
Company Inc.
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Finney Company,
Inc. was founded in the late 1940s by Horace J. Finney.
FINNEY BLACKBOARD KLEENERS
and FINNERASERS are the
products that gave Mr. Finney the foundation upon which to grow.
Today, these products, along with FINNEY
MARK-OFF products for dry erase boards, are distributed
worldwide by janitorial/sanitation and school suppliers.
Finney Company
is a growing independent publisher, distributor, and manufacturer
of educational materials. Our mission is to help improve the quality
of lifelong learning worldwide. We hope to strengthen and develop
our organization by working with existing and new authors and by
continuing to make strategic acquisitions. Our current divisions
and imprints include:
The
New Careers Center
Finney Career Development
Department
Live Oak Publications
Hobar
Publications
National
Farm Book Company
Agronomy Publications
K.A. Publishing
Windward Publishing
Anacus
Press
Chester
Book Co.
Bancroft-Sage
Publishing
Ecopress
Pogo
Press
Astragal
Press
Finney Company also
serves as the distribution center for the following publishers:
Minnesota
Humanities Center
Drache
Publications
Images
Unlimited Publishing
Snaptail Press
Sicard Publications
Joyce N. Shellhart
India Evans
Pine Forest Publishing
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The
New Careers Center
A Division of Finney Company |
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New Careers Center and its imprint Live Oak Publications began publishing
in 1982 and merged with Finney Company in 2006. This division offers
one-stop shopping for the best career books, videos, and software
through The Whole Work Catalog. Please visit www.wholework.com
to see what this division of Finney Company has to offer! |
| Finney
Career Development Department |
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| Finney
Company began publishing the highly acclaimed Occupational
Guidance series in 1958. This series offers one revised
unit each year, making it one of the most up-to-date products available.
This department continues to expand, covering areas such as career
development and exploration, school-to-work, tech prep, placement,
and on the job. |
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Live
Oak Publications
An
Imprint of The New Career Center |
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Oak Publications, founded in 1982, publishes materials on career preparation,
exploration, and development. |
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Hobar
Publications
A Division of Finney Company |
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| Hobar
Publications was founded in 1964 and became a division of Finney Company
in 1996. What started with a single book on concrete masonry has evolved
into a publishing and distribution company offering more than 5,000
quality educational products. This division provides agricultural
and career and technical educational materials. |
National
Farm Book Company
A Division of Hobar Publications |
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| National
Farm Book Company, founded in 1946, merged with Hobar Publications
in 1998. As a distributor of hundreds of agricultural titles, National
Farm Book Company was a natural addition to Hobar Publications. |
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Agronomy
Publications
An Imprint of Hobar Publications |
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| Agronomy
Publications, founded in 1970, merged with Hobar Publications in 2000.
Two books used for seed identification, Illustrated
Taxonomy of Weed Seeds and Seeds
of Continental United States Legumes, strengthen Hobar
Publication's product offering. |
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K.A.
Publishing
An Imprint of Hobar Publications |
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| K.A.
Publishing, founded in 1971, merged with Hobar Publications in 2001.
K.A.P. offers instructional materials for forestry, wildlife, natural
resources, conservation, and biology classrooms.It produces
Forest Management
Digest, a
four tape video series, record-keeping books, and training
aggreements. |
Windward
Publishing
An Imprint of Finney Company |
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| Windward
Publishing, founded in 1973, merged with Finney Company in 2001. Windward
offers nature books on popular subjects including shells, fishing,
mammals, sharks, birds, and more. Windward Publishing is home to most
of Finney Company's children's books. |
Anacus
Press
An Imprint of Finney Company |
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| Anacus
Press, founded in 1995, and White Meadow Press, founded in 1985, merged
with Finney Company in 2002. Anacus offers bicycling guides and bicycling
touring narratives. The Ride Guide and Bed, Breakfast &
Bike series feature a wide variety of bicycle rides in several
regions, for hard-core bike riding enthusiasts as well as leisure
riders. |
Chester
Book Co.
A Division of Finney Company
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| Chester
Book Co., founded in 1983, merged with Finney Company in 2002. Created
by a professional craft artist, CRAFTBOOKS is a highly respected
source for all who create, collect, teach, and love craft. Chester
Book Co. offers the finest books on craft by searching for titles
from U.S. and foreign publishing houses, art museums, craft organizations,
and books self-published by studio craft artists. The Web site, www.chesterbookco.com,
features the entire catalog, additional titles, and secure online
ordering. |
Bancroft-Sage
Publishing
An Imprint of Finney Company
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| Bancroft-Sage
Publishing, founded in 1987, merged with Finney Company in 2002. Bancroft-Sage
offers an Environmental Awareness series and a series of instructional
sports books (Learning How Sports
) designed for the beginning
athlete or an enthusiastic fan. |
Ecopress
An Imprint of Finney Company |
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| Ecopress,
established in 1996, merged with Finney Company in 2005. Ecopress
produces books that enhance environmental awareness, offering high-quality
titles covering subjects such as rivers, hiking, plants, and environmental
guides at affordable prices. |
Pogo
Press
An Imprint of Finney Company |
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Pogo Press
was incorporated in 1986. It merged with Finney Company in 2006.
This imprint publishes books concerning the arts, history, popular
culture, and travel, most with a regional orientation. Please visit
www.pogopress.com
to learn more about Pogo Press.
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Astragal
Press
An Imprint of Finney Company |
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| Astragal
Press was founded in 1983 to publish books, at affordable prices,
for those interested in antique tools and early trades and technologies.
It merged with Finney Company in 2007. Please visit www.astragalpress.com
to learn more about this imprint of Finney Company. |
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| Minnesota
Humanities Center |
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| Finney
Company serves as the fulfillment center for the Minnesota Humanities
Center. Please visit their site at www.minnesotahumanities.org
for details on Hmong/English bilingual books, Somali/English bilingual
books, and Braided
Lives, An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing. |
| Drache's
Publications |
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Drache's
publications are agricultural history books.
Click here
for descriptions of the books by Dr. Drache. |
| Images
Unlimited Publishing |
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| Finney
Company has entered into a non-exclusive arrangement with Images Unlimited
Publishing and its imprint Snaptail Press to be a wholesale distributor
of their books. Please visit www.imagesunlimitedpublishing.com
to see the quality books now available from Finney Company. |
| Snaptail
Press |
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| Finney
Company has entered into a non-exclusive arrangement with Snaptail
Press, an imprint of Images Unlimited to be a wholesale distributor
of their books. Please visit www.imagesunlimitedpublishing.com
to see the quality books now available from Finney Company |
| Sicard
Publications |
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| Anacus
Press, An Imprint of Finney Company helps distribute Michelle R. Sicard's
book, My Ride to a New
Life. |
| Joyce
N. Shellhart |
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| Finney
Company distributes Joyce N. Shellhart's book, Dress
to Impress. |
| India
Evans |
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| Ecopress,
An Imprint of Finney Company distributes India Evans book Mercury
Mountain. |
| Pine
Forest Publishing |
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| Finney
Company distributes for Pine
Forest Publishing. |