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

publishing company Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

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 digital and magazine service devoted to grocery sales, published by William Reed Ltd. It has been published since 1862. The Grocer 33 A feature of the service is 'The Grocer 33'. This is a survey of each of the fi ...

''. 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 tradesman, trade or industry. The collective term ...

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