William Reed (1830-1920) was the youngest son of a Yorkshire farmer who founded the

publishing company Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

that bears his name in 1862

Life

Being the son of a farmer, William Reed worked as a sugar merchant in the early years of his career, which was later to be the inspiration behind his first journal, ''

The Grocer ''The Grocer'' is a British magazine devoted to grocery sales, published by William Reed Business Media. It has been published since 1862. The Grocer 33 A feature of the magazine is 'The Grocer 33'. This is a survey of each of the 5 leading s ...

''. Marrying in to the Morgan Family, founders of the Morgan Brothers publishers, Reed was told to find a more suitable job. The brothers, primarily bankers, but with other business pursuits, entered publishing in 1859, publishing ''The Ironmonger'' and ''Chemist & Druggist''. With the growth of the

trade magazine A trade magazine, also called a trade journal or trade paper (colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry. The collective term for thi ...

market occurring at the time, Reed was inspired to found his own publishers. With his experience in the farming trade, Reed founded

in 1862 which is the leading market title today after 150 years.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reed, William 1830 births 1920 deaths English publishers (people) Businesspeople from Yorkshire