Know everything about Rodale Books
Rodale Books is a New-York–based publication and is known for the past 75 years for publishing on titles like lifestyle, wellness, fitness, and cookbook category.
The company took over the charge in the United States to launch out the organic movement in 1942 and is engaged with more than 100 million people globally through their product range.
The publication house got acquired by Hearst Communications in 2017 and later was sold out in parts of trade assets to Crown Publishing Group and Penguin Random House in January 2018.
The company serves in almost 67 countries with 100 editions reaching on the top standard of being an established health and wellness lifestyle brand through its array of products including books, magazines, e-commerce, online, direct-to-consumer, mobile, social, video, and events.
They also have a website under name RodaleWellness.com which acts as a community hub allowing their visitors to use expert advice regarding their fitness and to make life more self-reliant, natural and more healthful.
In the business of publication since 1930
The publication business of Rodale Books came in 1930 as Rodale Inc. by the contribution of J.I. Rodale. Originally, the company got started as Rodale Manufacturing by J.I. Rodale and his brother Joseph who use to produce electrical connectors.
The ways parted away and Joseph took the manufacturing company to Pennsylvania working on local taxes whereas J.I. Rodale focused on publication.
J.I. came up with his first work on Organic Farming and Gardening magazine in 1942 which came out to be the best-read gardening magazine in the present world. He became the early advocate of organic farming and sustainable agriculture in the United States with the magazine.
He next presented his health and wellness magazine under title Prevention in 1950 and also worked on topics, including The Synonym Finder.
J.I. Rodale died of a fatal heart attack on a segment of The Dick Cavett Show as a guest in 1971.
The business was taken over by his son Robert Rodale on the global level but he also died in an accident in 1990. Later on, it was handled by Robert's wife Ardath Rodale and his daughter Maria Rodale.
After being long served by Rodale's family the publication was acquired by New-York-based Hearst Communications in 2017.
The Hearst communications sold off Rodale's trade publishing house to Crown Publishing Group and part of it to Penguin Random House. It is now headquartered in Emmaus, Pennsylvania and has a satellite office in New York City.
Books and selected works by the editors of Rodale Books
Rodale Books look upon the mission to serve people and present them with ways to improve their lives with the world's best wellness content in their magazines and books for the past 75 years.
They have a good hold on award-winning publication contents mentioned below;
• Jessica Alba's The Honest Life
• Kristin Cavallari's Balancing in Heels and True Roots
• Dr. David Kessler's The End of Overeating
• Shalane Flanagan and Elyse Kopecky's Run Fast. Eat Slow.
• Dave Asprey's The Bulletproof Diet
• Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
• Bill Nye's Everything All At Once
• Howard Schultz's Onward
Aside they have published magazine works like Men's Health, Prevention, Bicycling, Women's Health and Runner's World covering a broad spectrum from lifestyle, wellness, cooking to business and self-help.
They also have the South Beach Diet, Wheat Belly and the Thug Kitchen as the world's successful series.
Are they getting positive reviews?
Yes, the company is receiving positive reviews based on their life-changing works and best-selling titles in the fitness, wellness, lifestyle, and cookbook category.
They are committed to encourage and motivate good habits of fitness, nutrition, environmental and mindfulness responsibility in their users.
Achievements in the list
The company is a certified member of The Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) and is included in Top 100 Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces of the United States.
It has also got recognized by Folio and Greatist as Top Places to Work in Media and Healthiest Companies in America lists.
What's the latest talk about them?
The publication Rodale Books got purchased by the Penguin Random House from Hearst in January 2018. In the deal, it's adult non-fiction department will form part of the Crown Publishing Group.
Penguin Random House will now go for acquiring over its 100 frontlist titles from Rodale Books and the Rodale Kids imprint, and over 2,000 backlist titles.
References
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodale_Inc.
https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/rodale-press/214735/