Effective January 1, publisher and distributor Casemate Group is acquiring trade book distributor International Publishers Marketing, Dulles, Va., which has some 30 publisher-clients. In connection with the purchase, IPM director Jane Graf is joining Casemate.
Casemate president David Farnsworth commented: "Bringing IPM and their long-time director Jane Graf into the Casemate Group significantly increases our reach and enables us to provide a top-level service to distribution client publishers whose books fall outside of our traditional core subject areas of history, military, archaeology and art."
For her part, Graf said, "This is a marvelous way to celebrate IPM's 25th anniversary as it will expand the market penetration for IPM's client publishers and will increase the exposure across North America for their wonderful books. IPM's motto for years has been 'bringing you the best books from around the globe,' and this move will allow us to offer our clients an increased level of quality service."
Founded in 2001, the Casemate Group is made up of Casemate Publishers, Oxbow Books, Casemate Academic, Casemate Athena and Casemate Art. Casemate launched Casemate-U.K. in the U.K. in 2007 and in late 2011 acquired Oxbow Books and Oxbow's U.S. subsidiary the David Brown Book Company (since renamed Casemate Academic.)
