Vendor’s Corner: Grey House Publishing

Grey House Publishing launched its first directory The Directory of Mail Order Catalogs in 1981, the year it was founded by its President, Richard Gottlieb, and Publisher, Leslie Mackenzie. Since then Grey House has published over 100 titles, as well as countless annual or semi-annual editions of many of these directories and reference works that subscribers and libraries have come to rely on as standards in their fields.

Developing Product Lines
By the early ‘90s, three clear product lines began to emerge – Business, Health and Education. Each area soon had 8-10 titles, and with such well-known works as the 3-volume Food & Beverage Market Place, formerly the 100+ year old Thomas Food Industry Register, The Complete Directory for People with Disabilities and Educators Resource Directory.

Expanding into Reference Books
The Value of the Dollar’s success helped move Grey House into the reference arena. In 2000 we launched the renowned Working Americans series with the first volume of what is now an eight volume set. Since then, we have added steadily to our reference line with such well-received encyclopedias as The Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War & Internment, From Suffrage to the Senate, The Religious Right: A Reference Handbook and Political Corruption in America. In addition, we explored the arts with our Performing Arts Directory, and a two volume encyclopedia on World Cultural Leaders of the 20th & 21st Centuries.

International Growth and in Publishing Partnerships
In 2006 Grey House Publishing acquired the Micromedia/Proquest directory publishing group based in Toronto and Grey House Publishing Canada was launched. A Canadian company still based in Toronto now located in the Fashion District [Richmond & Bathurst], this outstanding group produces print and on-line versions of some of the largest and most important directories in Canada including the Canadian Almanac and Directory.

In addition we have joined in partnership with other information compilers to become the publisher of their print editions. We are pleased to be the publishers of the Canadian Parliamentary Guide, Medical Device Register, all of the Street.com Rating Guides in print, and three major Gale encyclopedias on American Industries, Emerging Industries and Global Industries.

Grey House Online [CIRC & GOLD]
Grey House Publishing offers their directory data in fully searchable Online Databases. Varied search criteria allows for custom searches by Category, Geographic Area, Sales Volume, Keyword, Subject and more. Canadian content is searchable on the CIRC platform [Canada’s Information Resource Centre] and US titles are available on GOLD [Grey House Online Databases].

Praise for Grey House
All of Grey House directories and reference books are carefully compiled and researched, and offer content that is comprehensive and current. Data is presented in an easy-to-use/easy-to-find format that researchers have grown to look for. Grey House receives continuous praise...

"...excellent resource, valuable tool, highly recommended..." – Choice
"...immensely useful and user-friendly, the first of its kind..."- Booklist
"...mandatory purchase, well-designed, essential and up-to-date..."- ARBA

Please visit http://www.greyhouse.com/ or http://www.greyhouse.ca/ for more information.