PCG History

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/01/1990	PCG Founded	Publishers Communication Group founded as a sales and marketing consultancy for scholarly publishers.
02/01/1990	Gauthier Villars first PCG client
09/05/1993	Scandinavian University Press signs with PCG
03/01/1996	PCG begins international telemarketing with multilingual staff
01/01/1997	PCG launches global library visits	Library Visit Program begins in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and Spain.
06/19/1997	First library advisory board for Nature America
02/19/1998	Claire Winthrop becomes first content sales manager
04/19/1998	Journal sales to U.S. consortia	PCG became one of the first organizations to sell journal content to consortia in United States.
11/19/1998	Doug Wright becomes Vice President
03/19/1999	Latin American sales program	Began with direct sales in Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Argentina.
03/24/2000	PCG new office in Harvard Square
05/24/2000	PCG part of the Ingenta Group
07/24/2000	PCG begins representing CABI	in the North American market.
03/24/2003	PCG represents Nature in L.A.	PCG began representing Nature in Latin America in 2000.
09/24/2003	PCG moves office to Central Square	A few minutes down the road from Harvard Square, in Cambridge.
10/24/2003	PCG opens European office	In Oxford, UK, with telemarketing and sales representation services.
03/24/2004	Janet Fisher joins PCG as Senior Publishing Consultant
01/13/2005	Expansion of European Telesales Team in Oxford, UK
06/24/2006	PCG begins representing ASM	in North America and Europe.
03/24/2007	PCG, Ingenta and Vista merge to form Publishing Technology	PT is the largest technology provider for the publishing industry.
05/13/2008	Expansion of Content Sales Division	PCG added new positions in both the Cambridge and Oxford offices.
08/24/2008	PCG-BioOne Agreement	PCG appointed exclusive global sales and customer service agent for BioOne.
11/01/2008	Launch of Global Exhibits Program	PCG launched the Global Exhibits Program in late 2008 to help publishers reach foreign markets.
02/13/2009	PCG Opens Latin American office in Brazil	PCG opened its first office in Latin America in 2009 to accomodate growing interest (and potential) in that region.
03/24/2009	Latin American team expands
03/24/2009	Expansion of Oxford team	Languages spoken by PCG staff now include English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Arabic, Russian, Germans, Serbian, Hebrew and Dutch.
06/24/2009	Marco Castellan joins PCG to manage PCG Europe
01/24/2010	Incoporated in Brazil
02/24/2010	PCG staff tops 25 people	On three continents!
04/12/2010	Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
03/01/1996 to 06/01/2010	International Telemarketing Services
02/19/1998 to 06/01/2010	International Content Sales Services