Cengage Learning - Company Information

Company Information

The company is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, and has approximately 5,800 employees worldwide across 35 countries.

The company is composed of three units:

• Academic & Professional Group (APG)
• Gale
• International

In the academic marketplace, Cengage Learning serves secondary, higher education, and graduate-level students, teachers, libraries, government agencies, and corporations in both traditional and distance learning environments.

Gale is Cengage Learning’s library reference arm and specializes in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform. In addition to serving the school and library communities, Gale also licenses its proprietary content for integration within Web-based information services. Nearly 100 organizations — including Looksmart, Borders and Dow Jones — are engaged in business distribution partnerships with Gale.

As part of its international division, Cengage Learning provides materials for English language teaching and learning throughout the world via Heinle.

Cengage Learning has partnered with five other higher-education publishers to create CourseSmart, a company developed to sell college textbooks in eTextbook format on a common platform.