Company
Kaplan is a for-profit subsidiary of The Washington Post Company. Its Chairman and CEO is Andrew Rosen. Its 2011 revenue was $2.5 billion.
Stanley H. Kaplan, the founder of the company, died of a heart ailment on August 23, 2009. He was 90 years of age.
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