Quarto Group by the Numbers
by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 9/3/2007
$35 million: Revenue of Motor Books International, acquired by Quarto last week.
$73 million: Total Quarto revenue in first six months of 2007.
$50 million: Revenue from Quarto publishing group in first six months.
27%: Sales increase through Amazon at Quarto's U.S. publishing group, Quayside.
42: Number of Quayside titles in plan-o-gram at Michael's.
8%: Decline in Quayside's six-month sales at Home Depot.
2%: Increase in Quayside's six-month sales at Lowe's.
200,000: Copies in print in the Rockport Graphic Design list.
11,000: Copies in print of the new pet book 101 Dog Tricks.
13,000: Copies sold of Good Food Cookbook for Dogs.
45,000: Number of copies of Quiver's Sex Bible shipped internationally.
16,000: Copies sold of Quiver's Sex Bible in the U.S.
9,000: Copies of Position Sex shipped internationally.
30,000: Total copies shipped of four new titles in the Singer Sewing line.
$500,000: Sales of Quarto's educational publishing division made through Scholastic Book Clubs.
40: Number of publishers that have licensed the company's 1001 series.
