The Brick Industry Association (BIA) has awarded the 2022 Brick in Architecture Awards, the leading
international design competition featuring fired-clay brick.
Ingram's newest towboat rolled down the streets of Paducah, crewed with children and equipped with artificial snow, twinkling lights and Christmas music.
Looking back at âThe Family Businessâ By Jim Milliot, with Judith Rosen | May 14, 2021
To mark the first 50 years of Ingram Content Group and the company’s first $2 billion year, in 2020 John Ingram, chairman of the board of ICG and Ingram Industries Inc., will talk with
PW senior v-p, editorial director Jim Milliot and reporter and former Ingram spokesperson Keel Hunt, author of
The Family Business: How Ingram Transformed the World of Books, published in April by West Margin Press, an Ingram subsidiary.
In the book, Hunt traces the roots of ICG, the country’s largest book wholesaler, print-on-demand company, and independent book distributor, from its early days, when John Ingram’s father, Bronson Ingram, purchased the Tennessee Book Co., a textbook business, for $245,000 in 1964. Six years later, the Ingram Book Co., the forerunner of ICG, was launched. Following Bronson’s death in 1995, John took over the company.
We know authors and agents, publishers and printers, libraries and bookstores but there’s one company responsible for bringing just about every book you’ve ever read into your life, and you may not even know it exists. In
The Family Business, author and journalist Keel Hunt charts the history and contributions of Ingram Content Group, a little-known, family-owned business based in Tennessee that has shaped the publishing world for 50 years. We asked Hunt a few questions about Ingram, its role in the industry and its vision for the future.
Ingram s role in the publishing business is relatively invisible to the general reader. What gaps does Ingram fill for publishers, libraries and retailers?