The Quarto Group, Inc.

Quarto was established in London in 1976, and listed on the London Stock Exchange ten years later. Since then, Quarto has grown substantially, both organically and through selective acquisitions around the world. The Group now has 500 employees in 20 separate business units based in the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. It produces books under a number of Quarto-owned imprints, as well as in co-edition, licensing its product to household-name publishers in every corner of the globe. Each year 600 new books for adults and children emerge from the Quarto ideas factory, to be sold in 35 countries and in 25 languages. Subjects range from Art and Craft 'How to', Graphic Design, and Home Improvement, to Cookbooks, Motoring, and Popular Reference – anything, in fact, that can be better explained with photographs, artwork, or illustrations.

Quarto is also involved in related areas of display marketing (franchise retailing of books in Australia and New Zealand) and publishing services (print broking in Hong Kong and Singapore, and large format point-of-sales printing in the UK). The enduring quality of Quarto's publishing ensures that over 60% of the Group's income comes from a backlist of more than 9,000 titles, providing a stable revenue stream year after year after year. Quarto's proven business model has underpinned the Group's success and it remains poised to take advantage of new opportunities as they appear.