Lerner Publishing Group has acquired the supplemental literacy solutions company Sundance Newbridge Publishing from Globe Pequot Publishing. The purchase adds more than 3,600 fiction and nonfiction titles to the Lerner pre-K–8 catalog, along with new books and educational kits planned for future seasons. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
Sundance Newbridge was acquired by Globe Pequot’s former parent company, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, in 2008. Earlier this year, RLPG sold its academic and professional publishing division to Bloomsbury Publishing, leaving it with the Globe Pequot trade division, Sundance Newbridge, and the distributor NBN. “With the sale of our K-8 education business, Sundance Newbridge, and our academic business, Rowman & Littlefield, we will now focus on our trade businesses, Globe Pequot and NBN,” Globe CEO Jed Lyons told PW.
Following the sale, Sundance Newbridge will operate as a division of Lerner Publishing Group. While Sundance Newbridge’s longtime head, Paul Konowitch, is retiring, all other 14 Sundance Newbridge employees will join Lerner and continue to manage general publishing, acquisitions, sales, and customer service activities from Massachusetts. Globe Pequot will continue to handle warehousing and fulfillment of all products from its Hagerstown, Md., warehouse until the move to Lerner’s Mankato, Minn.–based warehouse in early 2025. "I am pleased that everyone employed by Sundance-Newbridge has been brought on board by Lerner,” said Lyons.
“Sundance Newbridge is known for their expertise in the classroom channel,” said Adam Lerner, publisher and CEO of Lerner Publishing Group, in a statement. “We are excited to combine Lerner’s award-winning books with the more than 50 years of experience that Sundance Newbridge has matching the perfect instructional materials to the exact needs of a school.”
