Marshall Pickering

Marshall Pickering was a British book publisher that specialised in Christian literature. It was created in 1981 as a merger between two long-established Christian publishers and was acquired by Zondervan in 1983.

Marshall Pickering

Predecessor	Marshall Morgan and Scott; Pickering and Inglis
Founded	1981 (1981)
Defunct	1983 (1983)
Successor	Zondervan
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Publication types	Books
Nonfiction topics	Christian literature

History

The publisher was formed in 1981 from the merger of two long-established Christian publishers: Marshall Morgan and Scott, a London-based predominantly Baptist publishing house, which had acquired a number of publishing companies over the years, such as Bagsters (Bible publishers since 1794) and Oliphants; and Pickering and Inglis, a long-established Glasgow-based publisher, publishing largely for the nonconformist church in Scotland with many Brethren publications. Marshall Pickering was acquired by Zondervan in 1983.^[1]

Zondervan was bought by Harper & Row in 1988. In 1989, Collins was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and the publisher was combined with Harper & Row, which NewsCorp had acquired two years earlier, to form HarperCollins. Marshall Pickering was merged into Zondervan in 2001.^[2]