Western Publishing Disbands

Western Publishing Co 1907 is pulling out of Racine, WI.

The last 80 employees at the firm\’s building in Sturtevant will lose their jobs in March when Random House transfers the offices to New York.


Western Publishing Co. once employed more than 1,500 workers and press operators in Racine, where an estimated 1 million Little Golden Books were churned out each week.

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