Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., was a division of the Meredith Publishing Company

Meredith Publishing Company

The Meredith Publishing Company, a division of Meredith Corporation, purchased D. Appleton & Company in 1960, and Duell, Sloan and Pearce in 1961.It later sold off various divisions of both to Academic Learning Company, LLC and Prentice Hall....

. It is a result of the merger of Appleton-Century Company with F.S. Crofts Co. in 1948. Prior to that, The Century Company

The Century Company

The Century Company was an American publishing company, founded in 1881.It was originally a subsidiary of Charles Scribner's Sons, but was bought and renamed. The magazine it had published up to that time, Scribners Monthly, was renamed The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine.The Century Company...

 had merged with D. Appleton & Company

D. Appleton & Company

D. Appleton & Company was an American company founded by Daniel Appleton , who opened a general store which included books.- Timeline :* 1813 Relocated from Haverhill to Boston and imported books from England...

 in 1933.

The Century Company, and its subsequent incarnations published the New Century Dictionary

Century Dictionary

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia was one of the largest encyclopedic dictionaries of the English language. The first edition was published from 1889 to 1891 by The Century Company of New York, in six, eight, or ten volume versions in 7,046 pages with some 10,000 wood-engraved illustrations...

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Eventually, part of the company became integrated into Academic Learning Company, LLC; the remainder became part of Prentice-Hall in 1973.