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puzzle, crosspatch and fill-it-in titles. Sons Anthony Herbert (Editorial Director) and Paul Herbert (Sales) helped the business grow to the success it became. Edward Tobias was the Editor. Prior to Mr. Herbert, Sr.'s passing in the 1980s, he sold the business to Nick Karabots, who owned the printer where the titles were being printed. The business was then moved to
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in August, including its brands ADC (Alexandria Drafting Company), Arrow Map, Hagstrom Map, American Map and Trakker Map. The Kappa Map Group suddenly ceased operations in early 2022 when the group's Managing Director departed for another position and no so-called "white knight" was found to rescue
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It has a number of subsidiary companies, such as London Publishing or GAMES Publications. Its original owner, H.L. Herbert ("Larry") founded his puzzle business, Official Publications in Manhattan with titles including Teen Word-Finds, Superb Word-Finds, Variety Word-Finds and countless crossword
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In December 2005, Kappa Publishing settled a class-action lawsuit in which they were accused of sending junk faxes. The settlement was for $ 1.5 million to 13,500 potential class members, $ 560,000 in attorneys' fees and expenses and $ 65,000 for administrative
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Kappa Publishing Group has a number of brands used for publishing magazines and books for puzzles and games.
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the mapping group. Decades of cartographic work was abandoned when the Map Group closed down.
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Official, such as for Official's Logic Puzzles and Official's Variety Puzzles
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In January 2012, Kappa announced that they had acquired Modern Publishing.
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Kappa began acquiring map publishers in 2007 with the acquisition of
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