CP/2/4/7 - Heinemann (reorganisation & succession)

CP/2/4/7

Sub file

Heinemann (reorganisation & succession)

1975-1984

11 items Mixed

Rosenthal, Tom
Hill, Alan, 1912-1993
Hollis, Nigel
Grose, Peter 1941-
House, Michael

Secker & Warburg
World's Work Ltd

This file contains papers on various organisational changes, appointments and contingency succession plans.

There is some overlap with CP/2/4/5.

Includes the following:

Management succession forms (1975) which would come into effect should anything untoward happen to Alan Hill (Managing Director of the Heinemann Group).

An agreement between Alan Hill and the Heinemann Group for Hill’s appointment as a specialist consultant to the Company from 1979-1982; and a letter from CP to Hill concerning the contract.

Speech by the Deputy Director-General of the British Council at EPC lunch for Alan Hill, 17.1.80.

An application by Nigel Hollis for the post of Managing Director of William Heinemann in 1979.

Terms of appointment for CP as Managing Director of The Heinemann Group of Publishers Ltd with effect from August 1979; and 1984 papers relating to this same post including a job description and applications, papers on the short-listing process and interview arrangements.

Papers on the successor of Tom Rosenthal as Managing Director of Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd in 1979. Ion Trewin is mentioned in this context. His application for the post is included.

Letters of support from Tom Rosenthal and CP for Peter Grose’s appointment as Publishing Director of Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd (1979).

Papers on the appointment of Michael House as Financial Director of World’s Work and Heinemann & Zsolnay in 1979. By this time Michael House was already Financial Director of William Heinemann, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd and Peter Davies.

Organisational charts of the Heinemann Group and its subsidiary companies; and charts on decisions required.

Facsimile certificates of incorporation on change of name: Universal Fisher Group Ltd to be incorporated under the name of William Heinemann International Ltd (3.12.79); Heinemann Group Services Ltd to be incorporated under the name of Heinemann Distribution Ltd (26.11.79).

Correspondence relating to reorganisation and to changes on the Boards of World’s Work Ltd, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, and the Heinemann Group’s Boards (4.12.79). Also includes papers on share transfers, and share agreements.

As part of the scheme of management re-organisation within the Heinemann Group, Tom Rosenthal was appointed Managing Director of William Heinemann International Ltd, a Heinemann subsidiary which controlled all fiction and general companies including Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. It was considered inappropriate for Tom Rosenthal to retain his holding in Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd and in 1980 he agreed to accept 160,000 Thomas Tilling Ltd ordinary shares in exchange. Papers relating to the sale of these shares are included.

In 1980, William Heinemann International Ltd was a directly owned subsidiary of the Heinemann Group and the Heinemann Secker Book Club was owned 75/25 per cent by William Heinemann and Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

The next step in the reorganisation was to transfer Heinemann Zsolnay, World's Work, William Heinemann and Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd from their current owners to William Heinemann International Ltd. A departmental letter from Thomas Tilling Ltd (30.8.79) explains the taxation implications for the transfer.