Granada Publishing Ltd (publishers: 1966-1988: St Albans, Hertfordshire, England)

Granada Publishing Ltd was incorporated as a limited liability company in 1968 to acquire the business of the Hour Press Ltd , publishers, London, England.

The Hour Press Ltd was incorporated in 1956 by Howard Samuel and Jane Willington Samuel who were also its first directors. Reginald Gerard Davis-Poynter was appointed as a director in 1961 and was already a founding director of Arco publications Ltd, publishers, London, along with Howard Samuel. In 1962 , MacGibbon & Kee Ltd , publishers, London, acquired shares in The Hour Press Ltd. The company name was changed in 1966 to become Granada Publishing Ltd. This new company was a subsidiary of media and broadcasting company Granada Group Ltd who as a holding company aimed to develop the interests of its subsidiary companies through sharing resources and group development in a manner that the individual companies would be unable to achieve alone. The Granada Group published fiction, non-fiction, and educational books and had interests in New Zealand, the United States, South Africa, Middle East, Australia and Canada where further subsidiary companies managed the group's business.

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