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Harlequin Enterprises

LC control no.n 85146878
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Corporate name headingHarlequin Enterprises
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Variant(s)Harlequin (Firm)
See alsoPredecessor: Harlequin Books (Firm)
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Hierarchical subordinate: Mills & Boon (Firm)
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Hierarchical superior: HarperCollins (Firm)
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Hierarchical superior: News Corporation
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Hierarchical superior: News Corp (Firm : 2013)
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Other standard no.000000010670711X
147408883
Q612938
Beginning date1985?
Associated countryCanada
LocatedToronto (Ont.)
Field of activityRomance fiction Paperbacks
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Found inJensen, M.A. Love's $weet return, c1984: p. 32 (Harlequin Enterprises; earlier name: Harlequin Books; shortened form: Harlequin)
Wikipedia, 17 April 2021 in an entry for Harlequin Enterprises (Harlequin Enterprises Limited (known simply as Harlequin) is a Toronto-based company that publishes series of romance and women's fiction; Harlequin was owned by the Torstar Corporation, the largest newspaper publisher in Canada, from 1981 to 2014; it was then purchased by News Corp, and is now a division of HarperCollins; Harlequin was founded in 1949 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada as a paperback reprinting company; in 1953, Harlequin began publishing medical romances)
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New York times, March 30, 2021: in an article entitled "HarperCollins to buy Houghton Mifflin's Books and Media" on page B4 (The book business has been transformed by consolidation in the past decade, with the merger of Penguin and Random House in 2013, News Corp's purchase of the romance publisher Harlequin, and Hachette Book Group's acquisition of Perseus Books)
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925), May 8, 2014 (surrogate): in an article entitled "What happened to the Harlequin romance?" (Harlequin Books Limited -- now Harlequin Enterprises -- was founded in 1949 in Canada as a small printer, packager, and distributor of books; In the 1950s, Harlequin started reprinting titles from Mills & Boon, a British publisher of popular romance novels; in 1972, Harlequin acquired Mills & Boon, and soon was synonymous with the romance novel; last week, News Corporation announced it would acquire Harlequin from its parent company, Torstar Corporation, for about four hundred and fifteen million dollars -- not much more than Harlequin's revenue last year. Harlequin will become a division of News Corp.'s HarperCollins Publishers; Mills & Boon remains a subsidiary of Harlequin)