Graham Holdings Company operates as a diversified holding company whose operations include educational services, television broadcasting, manufacturing, healthcare, automotive dealerships and other businesses. Through Kaplan, Inc. (Kaplan), the company provides a wide variety of educational services to students, schools, colleges, universities and businesses, both domestically and outside the United States (U.S.), including academic preparation programs for international students, English-langua...
Graham Holdings Company operates as a diversified holding company whose operations include educational services, television broadcasting, manufacturing, healthcare, automotive dealerships and other businesses. Through Kaplan, Inc. (Kaplan), the company provides a wide variety of educational services to students, schools, colleges, universities and businesses, both domestically and outside the United States (U.S.), including academic preparation programs for international students, English-language programs, operations support services for pre-college, certificate, undergraduate and graduate programs, exam preparation for high school and graduate students and for professional certifications and licensures, career and academic advisement services to businesses, and operates a United Kingdom (U.K.) sixth-form college that prepares students for A-level examinations.
The company's television broadcasting segment owns and operates seven television broadcast stations and provides social media management tools designed to connect newsrooms with their users. The company's manufacturing companies comprise the ownership of a supplier of pressure-treated wood, a manufacturer of electrical solutions, a manufacturer of lifting solutions, and a supplier of parts used in electric utilities and industrial systems. The company's healthcare segment provides home health, hospice and palliative services, in-home specialty pharmacy infusion therapies, applied behavior analysis therapy, physician services for allergy, asthma and immunology patients, in-home aesthetics, and healthcare software-as-a-service technology. The company's automotive business comprises eight dealerships and valet repair services. The company's other businesses include an online art gallery and in-person art fair business; an online commerce platform featuring original art and designs on an array of consumer products; an owner and operator of websites; restaurants; a custom framing company; a marketing solutions provider; a customer data and analytics software company; Slate and Foreign Policy magazines; and a daily local news podcast and newsletter company. The company's operations in geographic areas outside the U.S. consist primarily of Kaplan's non-U.S. operations.
Education
Kaplan provides an extensive range of education and related services worldwide for students, universities and businesses. Kaplan products and services reach learners directly or through Kaplan's many relationships. These relationships include approximately 15,000 companies and approximately 3,300 universities, colleges, schools and school districts, which, along with individual students and professionals, pay for Kaplan's products and services. In 2023, Kaplan was the provider for the educational needs of approximately 1.2 million students and professionals worldwide who engaged with Kaplan services and materials in-person, online, through their schools (K-12, college, or university) or through their employer education or coaching programs. In 2023, Kaplan's reach also included sales of 1.8 million units of book/study aid products to individuals, businesses, schools, colleges and universities.
Kaplan conducts its business through two operating segments: Kaplan International (KI), and Kaplan North America (KNA). KNA conducts business through two operating segments, Higher Education and Supplemental Education. In addition, the results of the Kaplan Corporate segment consist of results of Kaplan's investment activities in education technology companies.
Kaplan International
KI operates businesses in Europe and the Middle East, North America and the Asia Pacific region, each of which is discussed below.
Europe and the Middle East: In Europe, KI operates the following businesses, all of which are based in the U.K. and Ireland: Kaplan UK, KI Pathways, Kaplan Languages Group, Mander Portman Woodward, Dublin Business School, Kaplan Open Learning and BridgeU. In the Middle East, Kaplan Professional Middle East is based in the United Arab Emirates.
The Kaplan UK business in Europe, through Kaplan Financial Limited, is a provider of apprenticeship training and test preparation services for accounting and financial services professionals, including those studying for ACCA, CIMA and ICAEW qualifications. Kaplan UK has training centers located throughout the U.K. In 2023, Kaplan UK provided courses to over 48,000 students in accountancy and financial services.
The KI Pathways business offers academic preparation programs designed for international students who wish to study for degrees at universities in English-speaking countries. KI Pathways also recruits international students for enrollment in certain U.S., U.K. and Canadian university partner programs. In 2023, university preparation programs were delivered in Australia, Japan, Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S.
The Kaplan Languages Group business provides English-language training, academic preparation programs and test preparation for English proficiency exams, principally for students wishing to study and travel in English-speaking countries. As of December 31, 2023, the Kaplan Languages Group operated 20 English-language schools, with 13 located in the U.K., Ireland and Canada and seven located in the U.S. In 2023, the Kaplan Languages Group served approximately 28,000 students for in-class and online English-language instruction. Through the Alpadia language schools located in France, Germany and Switzerland, Kaplan Languages Group also offers French and German language training to adolescents (from 16+) and adults. Alpadia also operates language camps for juniors (from 8+) and teens during the fall, spring and summer seasons in the U.K., France, Germany and Switzerland. As of December 31, 2023, the Alpadia language schools served approximately 8,200 students.
Mander Portman Woodward (MPW) is a U.K. independent sixth-form college that prepares domestic and international students for the A-level examinations that U.K. universities require for admission. MPW comprises three fifth- and sixth-form colleges in London, Cambridge and Birmingham.
KI also operates Dublin Business School in Ireland, a higher education institution, and Kaplan Open Learning in the U.K., an online learning institution working in partnership with the University of Essex and the University of Liverpool. At the end of 2023, these institutions enrolled an aggregate of approximately 11,500 students.
In 2023, Kaplan Professional Middle East, a financial training business operating in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, taught approximately 4,700 students.
The Asia Pacific: In the Asia Pacific region, Kaplan operates businesses primarily in Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and the People's Republic of China, including the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong).
Singapore: In Singapore, Kaplan operates two businesses: Kaplan Higher Education and Kaplan Financial. During 2023, the Kaplan Higher Education and Kaplan Financial divisions served more than 6,900 students from Singapore and approximately 3,100 students from other countries throughout Asia and Western Europe. Kaplan Financial provided short courses to approximately 600 professionals, managers, executives and businesspeople in 2023.
Kaplan Singapore's Higher Education business provides students with the opportunity to earn bachelor's and postgraduate degrees in various fields on either a part-time or full-time basis. Kaplan Singapore's students receive degrees from affiliated educational institutions in Australia, Ireland and the U.K. In addition, this division offers pre-university and diploma programs.
Kaplan Singapore's Kaplan Financial business provides preparatory courses for professional qualifications in accountancy and finance, such as the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
In June 2021, the Committee for Private Education (CPE) instructed Kaplan Singapore to cease new enrollments in a number of diploma programs. In 2022, Kaplan Singapore successfully applied for re-registration of certain diploma and additional full-time and part-time programs. In May 2022, CPE also renewed Kaplan Singapore's registration as a private education institution for a four-year period expiring in 2026. In 2023, Kaplan Singapore successfully renewed the certification required for private education institutions to enroll international students and offer certain programs.
Australia: In Australia, Kaplan delivers a broad range of financial services programs from certificate level through master's level, professional development offerings through Kaplan Professional, and higher education programs in business, accounting, business analytics, hospitality, and information technology through Kaplan Business School. In 2023, these businesses provided courses to approximately 9,700 students through face-to-face and online programs. Kaplan Professionals offered programs to approximately 26,000 students through online or distance-learning programs. In 2023, Kaplan Professional also had approximately 38,000 subscribers for Ontrack, its continuing professional development platform for financial services professionals.
The Kaplan Australia Pathways business is also part of KI Pathways. In 2023, it consisted of Murdoch College, the University of Newcastle College of International Education and the University of Adelaide College, and offered face-to-face pathways and foundational education to approximately 1,600 students wishing to enter associated universities. New programs were launched during 2023 at the University of Newcastle College of International Education. Murdoch College commenced English foundation studies and Murdoch University preparation courses in February 2023, and diploma programs in business and IT were approved by Australia's national regulator, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), and will begin in early 2024. Offering other planned programs is dependent on regulatory approval. Kaplan Australia ceased to offer any standalone English language courses in 2023 as planned.
Kaplan International New Zealand operates a pathways college in Aukland in partnership with Massey University, known as Massey University College. Kaplan Australia also owns Red Marker Pty Ltd., a machine learning and artificial intelligence-based provider of legal risk detection for digital, advertising and marketing content. Red Marker supports a wide variety of industries, including financial services, telecoms, automotive, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, media and government bodies. Red Marker's Artemis product detects potentially noncompliant content as it is being created, helping advisers and licensees identify and remediate compliance risks.
Hong Kong: In Hong Kong, Kaplan operates three main business units: Kaplan Financial, Kaplan Language Training and Kaplan Higher Education, serving approximately 6,500 students annually.
Kaplan Hong Kong's Financial division delivers preparatory courses to approximately 5,650 students and business executives wishing to earn professional qualifications in accountancy, financial markets designations and other professional fields.
Kaplan Hong Kong's Language Training division offers test preparation for both overseas study and college applications, including TOEFL, IELTS, SAT and GMAT, to approximately 160 students.
Kaplan Hong Kong's Higher Education division offers both part-time and full-time programs to local students in Hong Kong and international students from Europe; providing students with the opportunity to earn diplomas, bachelor's and postgraduate degrees in various fields from affiliated educational institutions in Australia, the U.K. and Germany.
In 2014, Kaplan Holdings Limited (Hong Kong) signed a joint venture agreement with CITIC Press Corporation. Under the terms of the agreement, the parties incorporated a joint venture company, Kaplan CITIC Education Co. Limited, 49% of which is owned by Kaplan Holdings Limited. The joint venture company is carrying out the publishing and distribution of Kaplan Financial training products in the People's Republic of China.
Each of Kaplan's international businesses is subject to unique and often complex regulatory environments in the countries in which they operate, and the degree of consistency in the application and interpretation of such regulations can vary significantly in certain jurisdictions.
Kaplan North America
KNA consists of two segments, Kaplan North America Higher Education and Kaplan North America Supplemental Education.
Through its Higher Education and Supplemental Education units, KNA provides operations support services to institutions of higher education for online courses and programs, as well as directly providing courses, programs and training to pre-college, certificate, undergraduate and graduate students, and professionals. These include professional training and exam preparation for professional certifications and licensures both direct to students and professionals and through agreements with institutions and corporate partner employees, online pre-college summer programs in partnership with traditional universities, and pre-college and graduate entrance exam test preparation services. KNA's non-academic operations support services for online pre-college, certificate, undergraduate and graduate programs are provided to institutions including Purdue University, Purdue University Global, Creighton University, Wake Forest University and Lynn University.
Kaplan North America Higher Education
Transition and Support Operations for Purdue University Global: KNA provides operations support functions to Purdue University Global (Purdue Global) which operates largely online as an Indiana public university affiliated with Purdue University. The operations support activities that KNA provides to Purdue Global (and other institutions of higher education, including Purdue University) include technology support, helpdesk functions, human resources support for transferred faculty and employees, admissions support, financial aid processing, back-office business functions, certain test preparation and other non-academic functions.
The support functions provided to Purdue Global are provided under a Transition and Operations Support Agreement (TOSA), which was entered into in March 2018 at the time Kaplan transferred the institutional assets and academic operations of Kaplan University (its postsecondary education operations) to Purdue Global. Kaplan is entitled to reimbursement of this advance, subject to available cash or upon termination of the TOSA.
The TOSA has a 30-year initial term, which will automatically renew for five-year periods unless terminated. After the sixth year, Purdue Global has the right to terminate the agreement upon payment of an early termination fee equal to 125% of Purdue Global's total revenue earned during the preceding 12-month period, which payment would be made pursuant to a 10-year note, and at the election of Purdue Global, for no additional consideration, it may receive certain tangible assets used exclusively by KNA to provide the support functions pursuant to the TOSA.
Postsecondary Online Managed Services: In addition to services provided to Purdue Global through the TOSA, KNA provides specific non-academic managed services to university online programs at institutions, including Wake Forest, Creighton University, Lynn University and Purdue University. These services include analytics, technology support, marketing, student advising and admissions support, and curriculum development support. Kaplan receives payment from university clients for these services, which may be based in part on the revenue of the programs Kaplan supports.
Pre-college Programs: KNA's Prelum provides online pre-college programs for high school students to explore careers and courses in partnership with leading postsecondary institutions. The programs also enable KNA's university partners to build a relationship with prospective students and to introduce them to their academic offerings, unique educational approach and culture. KNA's Prelum programs have served thousands of students all over the world and in all 50 states, and include more than 50 programs in partnership with eight university partners, including Wake Forest, Rice University, Columbia University Business School, Georgetown University, and Parsons Paris.
Higher Education Regulatory Environment: KNA provides services to Purdue Global, Purdue University, Wake Forest University, Lynn University, Creighton University, and other Title IV participating institutions that may require KNA to comply with certain laws and regulations, including applicable statutory provisions of Title IV. KNA also provides financial aid services to Purdue Global (but no other institution). Due to the provision of these services to Purdue Global, pursuant to current U.S. Department of Education (ED) guidance, KNA meets the definition of a Third-Party Servicer contained in the Title IV regulations. As a Third-Party Servicer, KNA is subject to applicable statutory provisions of Title IV and ED regulations that, among other things, require KNA to be jointly and severally liable with Purdue Global to the ED for any violation by KNA or Purdue Global of any Title IV statute or ED regulation or requirement. Changes to the ED's guidance on Third-Party Servicers including a change to the definition of what entity or services fall within the scope of the Third-Party Servicer regulations could cause KNA to be considered a Third-Party Servicer for other university clients. KNA is also subject to other federal and state laws, including but not limited to, federal and state consumer protection laws and rules prohibiting unfair or deceptive marketing practices, data privacy, data protection and information security requirements established by federal state and foreign governments, including, for example, the Federal Trade Commission and the applicable provisions of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act regarding the privacy of student records. KNA's failure to comply with these and other federal and state laws and regulations could result in adverse consequences to KNA's business, including, for example:
The imposition on KNA and/or Kaplan of fines, other sanctions or liabilities, including without limitation, repayment obligations for Title IV funds to the ED or the termination or limitation on Kaplan's eligibility to provide services as a Third-Party Servicer to any Title IV participating institution;
Adverse effects on KNA's business and results of operations from a reduction or loss in KNA's revenues under the TOSA or any other agreement with any Title IV participating institution if a client institution loses or has limits placed on its Title IV eligibility, accreditation, operations or state licensure, or is subject to fines, repayment obligations or other adverse actions due to noncompliance by KNA (or the institution) with Title IV, accreditor, federal or state agency requirements;
Liability under the TOSA or any other agreement with any Title IV participating institution for noncompliance with federal, state or accreditation requirements arising from KNA's conduct; and
Liability for noncompliance with Title IV or other federal or state laws and regulations occurring prior to the transfer of Kaplan University to Purdue.
KNA provides services to education institutions that are subject to federal and state laws and regulations and extensive accrediting body requirements.
KNA and its client institutions are subject to reviews, audits, investigations and other compliance reviews conducted by various regulatory agencies and auditors, including, among others, the ED, the ED's Office of the Inspector General, accrediting bodies and state and various other federal agencies. These compliance reviews could result in findings of noncompliance with statutory and regulatory requirements that could, in turn, result in the imposition of fines, liabilities, civil or criminal penalties or other sanctions against KNA and its client institutions. Separately, if KNA provides financial aid services to more than one Title IV participating institution (i.e., one or more participating institutions in addition to Purdue Global), or if the ED expands the current interpretation of the definition of Third-Party Servicer to include services in addition to providing financial aid services, KNA will be required to arrange for an independent auditor to conduct an annual Title IV compliance audit of KNA's compliance with applicable ED requirements. KNA's client institutions are also required to arrange for an independent auditor to conduct an annual Title IV compliance audit of their compliance with applicable ED requirements, including requirements related to services provided by KNA.
Kaplan North America Supplemental Education
KNA's Supplemental Education includes exam preparation, professional licensure and certification, corporate training and continuing education. KNA offers a wide array of programs and services across various markets focusing on lifetime value creation and professional lifecycles. These markets are discussed below.
In 2023, KNA served over 943,000 students through its exam preparation, professional licensure and certification, and corporate training and continuing education programs and related products (such as tutoring, online question banks and online practice tests), excluding sales of test prep books by third-party retailers. Virtually all KNA exam preparation programs are offered online, typically in a live online classroom or a self-study format, although some programs are offered in person. Private tutoring services are provided online. In 2023, KNA served approximately 3,200 business-to-business clients, including approximately 158 Fortune 500 companies.
Pre-college and Social Sciences: KNA provides exam preparation for high school and graduate students under the Kaplan Test Prep, Manhattan Prep and Barron's Educational Series brands for a broad range of standardized, high-stakes tests, including the SAT, ACT, GMAT and GRE. KNA also provides admissions consulting, tutoring and other advisory services.
Healthcare: KNA provides exam preparation for the medical college admissions test (MCAT) and professional licensure exam preparation for physicians (USMLE), nurses (NCLEX), pharmacists (NAPLEX), dentists (NBDE) and physician assistants (PANCE). Under the brand i-Human Patients, KNA offers online, simulated patient interaction training for medical health professionals, which is typically purchased by medical, nursing and physician assistant schools. KNA's USMLE in-person programs are accredited and the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) is approved for F-1 students and operates under the Kaplan Medical Prep brand. Under the brand, Projects in Knowledge, KNA offers continuing medical education for physicians, nurses and pharmacists which is accredited by Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education.
Legal and Government: KNA offers exam preparation for the law school admissions test (LSAT) and state bar licensure exam preparation for lawyers in 50 jurisdictions through Kaplan Bar Review and Preliminary Multistate Bar Review (PMBR). For the military, KNA offers the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) that measures developed abilities and helps predict future academic and occupational success in the military and offers practice test questions for Navy advancement exams on a subscription basis through the brand, Bluejacketeer.
Business and Financial: Professional licensure products are operated under the brands Dearborn Real Estate Education, Kaplan Real Estate Education, Bob Hogue School of Real Estate, Kaplan Financial Education and Kaplan Schweser. KNA helps professionals obtain certifications, licenses and designations to enable them to advance their careers. Additionally, KNA collaborates with organizations to solve their talent management challenges through customized corporate learning and development solutions. Through live and online instruction, KNA provides professional license test preparation, licensing and continuing education, as well as leadership and professional development programs to businesses and individuals in the accounting, insurance, securities, real estate, financial services and wealth management areas.
Technology and Engineering: KNA offers licensing exam preparation for engineers, architects and designers under the brand name PPI.
Publishing: Kaplan Publishing focuses on Kaplan Test Prep, Barron's, and Manhattan Prep test preparation and reference resources sold through retail channels. At the end of 2023, Kaplan Publishing had 1,100 products available in print and digital formats, including 305 digital products.
Television Broadcasting
Graham Media Group, Inc. (GMG), a subsidiary of the company, owns seven television stations located in Houston, Texas (TX); Detroit, Michigan (MI); Orlando, Florida (FL); San Antonio, TX; Jacksonville, FL; and Roanoke, Virginia (VA), as well as SocialNewsDesk, a provider of social media management tools designed to connect newsrooms with their users.
Regulation of Broadcasting and Related Matters
GMG's television broadcasting operations are subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under the U.S. Federal Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the Communications Act). Each GMG television station holds an FCC license that is renewable upon application for an eight-year period. The current terms of the GMG station licenses expire between 2028 and 2030.
Digital Television (DTV) and Spectrum Issues: Each GMG station (and each full-power television station nationwide) broadcasts only in a digital format, which allows transmission of HDTV programming and multiple channels of standard-definition television programming (multicasting).
Manufacturing
Hoover Treated Wood Products, Inc.
Hoover Treated Wood Products, Inc. (Hoover) is a supplier of pressure-impregnated kiln-dried lumber and plywood products for fire-retardant and preservative applications.
Group Dekko Inc.
Group Dekko Inc. (Dekko) is an electrical solutions company that focuses on innovative power charging and data systems; industrial and commercial indoor lighting solutions; and the manufacture of electrical components and assemblies for medical equipment, transportation, industrial and appliance products.
Joyce/Dayton Corp.
Joyce/Dayton Corp. (Joyce/Dayton) is a leading manufacturer of screw jacks, linear actuators and related linear motion products and lifting systems in North America. Joyce/Dayton provides its lifting and positioning products to customers across a diverse range of industrial end markets, including renewable energy, metals and metalworking, oil and gas, satellite antennae and material handling sectors.
Forney Corporation
Forney Corporation (Forney) is a global supplier of burners, igniters, dampers, and controls for combustion processes in electric utility and industrial applications.
Healthcare
Graham Healthcare Group
Graham Healthcare Group (GHG) provides home health, hospice, palliative, home infusion and other healthcare services. GHG served approximately 120,000 patients in 2023. Its home health, palliative and hospice operations provides services to approximately 80,000 patients annually across the states of Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, and Florida. GHG's brands include Residential Home Health, Residential Hospice, Allegheny (AHN) Healthcare@Home, and Mary Free Bed at Home and across these companies there are 18 home health, 12 hospice, and six palliative care operating units. Sixteen of GHG's 36 operating units are operated through joint ventures with health systems and physician groups and the remainder are wholly-owned. Home health, palliative and hospice services include a wide range of health care services that are provided wherever home may be and are tailored to the unique needs and goals of the patients. Home health care helps patients gain independence and remain safe at home as active community members. GHG derives 90% of its revenues for home health, palliative, and hospice services from Medicare. The remaining sources of revenue are from Medicaid, commercial insurance, and private payors.
GHG additionally manages and operates five companies across the healthcare industry: CSI Pharmacy, Clarus, Impact Medical, Skin Clique, and Surpass Behavioral Health.
CSI Pharmacy is a nationwide specialty home infusion pharmacy licensed in 48 states serving patients suffering from chronic and rare illness. CSI Pharmacy specializes in treating rare diseases with biologics and plasma-derived therapies, with revenues derived primarily from intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy. CSI Pharmacy delivers products to patients' homes and employs nurses to provide the specialized infusion therapies to patients.
Clarus provides call management solutions to physician groups and hospitals. Clarus replaces traditional human-staffed answering services with a SaaS-based solution. Clarus streamlines call handling, provider call coverage management, eliminates patient hold times, and manages referrals and new appointments. The solution eliminates delays, call routing errors, and malpractice risk inherent with traditional call centers.
Impact Medical operates a full-service physician practice dedicated to providing advanced care for allergies, asthma, and immunology throughout New Jersey, New York, and the surrounding areas.
Skin Clique is a concierge in-home provider of aesthetic products and services. Skin Clique generates much of its revenue from neurotoxin injections and the remaining revenue from skin peels, skin consultations, Ultherapy, dermal fillers, and medical grade skin care products. Skin Clique, based in Charleston, South Carolina, serves clients across approximately 30 states.
Surpass Behavioral Health operates approximately 16 Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) clinics throughout Kentucky, South Carolina, Illinois, Georgia, and Pennsylvania as well as a school program in Pennsylvania and a positive behavior support program in Kentucky. The majority of its revenue is center-based, with a smaller portion coming from school settings, and the remaining from telehealth and adult programs.
Automotive
Graham Automotive LLC
The company owns a 90% interest in eight automotive dealerships in the Washington, D.C. area: Honda of Tysons Corner in Virginia, Lexus of Rockville in Maryland, Jeep in Bethesda, Maryland, Ford of Manassas in Virginia, Toyota of Woodbridge and Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram of Woodbridge in Virginia, and in September 2023, the company acquired a 90% interest in a Toyota dealership in Henrico, Virginia (VA), and in December 2023, opened a new Kia franchise in Bethesda, Maryland.
Other Activities
Saatchi Online, Inc. (Saatchi Art Group)
Saatchi Online, Inc. (Saatchi Art Group) including SaatchiArt.com (Saatchi Art) and its art fair event brand, The Other Art Fair, provides an online art gallery where a global community of artists exhibit and sell their original artwork directly to consumers through an online gallery as well as through virtual reality and in-person art fairs hosted in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia. Saatchi Art's online art gallery features a wide selection of original paintings, drawings, sculptures and photography.
Society6, LLC
Society6 is an online art and design marketplace where artists and designers can market and sell their original art and designs printed on a wide variety of products. Its made-to-order marketplaces, consisting of Society6.com (Society6) and its wholesale channel Deny Designs (together, Society6 Group), provide artists and designers with an online commerce platform to feature and sell their original art and designs on an array of consumer products primarily in the home décor category. Society6 Group's wholesale channel sells products to trade and hospitality clients, as well as retail distribution partners.
World of Good Brands
World of Good Brands (WGB consists of a diverse portfolio of media properties that educate and inform consumers across a wide variety of life topics, including fitness and wellness brands such as Well+Good and Livestrong.com and Only In Your State in the travel sector. Together with these premium brands, WGB owns and operates or hosts and operates over 45 websites focused on specific categories or interests. WGB generates the majority of its media revenue from the sale of advertising.
Clyde's Restaurant Group
Clyde's Restaurant Group (Clyde's) owns and operates 12 restaurants and entertainment venues in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, including six Clyde's locations, Old Ebbitt Grill, The Hamilton, Hamilton Live, 1789 Restaurant, Fitzgerald's and The Tombs. Clyde's has three new restaurants under development and/or construction with planned openings in 2024 and 2025.
Framebridge, Inc.
Framebridge provides high-quality, affordable and fast custom framing directly to consumers. Through its website, app and retail locations, Framebridge offers consumers the option to drop off or ship artwork, pictures and other personal objects directly to Framebridge to be custom framed and then delivered directly to a customer or a retail store for in-store pick up.
Code3
Code3 is a marketing and insights company that manages digital advertising for global and mid-market brands and early-stage companies. It delivers media, creative and data services to transform consumer and performance data into planning, content, media activation and measurement to maximize ROI. Code3 works across platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Twitter/X, Pinterest, Snapchat, YouTube, as well as direct digital media relationships and streaming TV and audio solutions.
Decile LLC
Decile LLC (Decile) is a customer data and analytics software company that helps marketers extract value from their proprietary first-party customer and sales data. Decile provides software and services to help its business clients better understand customer personas, customer acquisition and retention, product analytics and how to increase profitable growth.
The Slate Group LLC
The Slate Group LLC (Slate) publishes Slate, an online magazine. Slate features articles and podcasts analyzing news, politics and contemporary culture and adds new material on a daily basis. Content is supplied by the magazine's own editorial staff, as well as by independent contributors. As measured by The Slate Group, Slate had an average of more than 11 million unique visitors per month and averaged more than 34 million page views per month across desktop and mobile platforms in 2023. The Slate Group owns an interest in E2J2 SAS, a company incorporated in France that produces two French-language news magazine websites at slate.fr and slateafrique.com.
The FP Group
The FP Group produces Foreign Policy magazine and the ForeignPolicy.com website, which cover developments in national security, international politics, global economics and related issues. The site features blogs, unique news content, specialized channels and newsletters, and podcasts focusing on regions and topics of interest. The FP Group provides insight and analysis into global affairs for government, military, business, media and academic leaders. FP Events also produces a growing number of live and virtual events, bringing together government, military, business and investment leaders to discuss important regional and topical developments and their implications.
City Cast LLC
City Cast LLC (City Cast) is a network of daily local news podcasts in cities around the country, accompanied by a daily email newsletter about local communities. The podcasts and newsletters cover local news, events and places.
Competition
Saatchi Online, Inc. (Saatchi Art Group)
Saatchi Art Group competes with a wide variety of online and brick-and-mortar companies selling comparable products. Its online art gallery and in-person art fair business compete with traditional offline art galleries, art consultants and online platforms selling original artwork, such as Artfinder, Artspace, Rise Art, Singulart, eBay and Amazon Art, home retailers that sell wall art such as West Elm, Crate and Barrel, and Restoration Hardware and various art fairs that feature reasonably priced artwork from emerging artists, such as The Affordable Art Fair.
Society6, LLC
Society6 Group competes with a wide variety of online and brick-and-mortar companies selling comparable products. Its made-to-order marketplace business primarily competes with companies that also utilize a made-to-order business model whereby consumer products featuring artist designs are produced by third-party fulfillment partners and shipped directly to customers, such as Redbubble, Zazzle, Art.com, Shutterfly and Minted, as well as companies that offer broader home décor and apparel products, such as Amazon, Etsy, and Wayfair. Additionally, Society6 Group is facing, and will likely continue to face, increased international competition from brands offering ultra-low-cost goods, such as Shein and Temu.
World of Good Brands
WGB competes for advertisers on the basis of a number of factors, including return on marketing expenditures, price of its offerings, and the ability to deliver large audiences or precise types of segmented audiences. Principal competitors in this space currently include various online media companies ranging from large internet media companies to specialized and enthusiast properties that focus on particular areas of consumer interest, as well as social media outlets, such as Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram and Pinterest.
City Cast LLC
City Cast faces significant competition in all aspects of its business. Several companies operate large national networks of local daily newsletters, notably Axios and 6am City, both of which have many more subscribers than City Cast. City Cast competes for advertising dollars with all these newsletter and podcast competitors, as well as with local radio, newspaper, TV and digital outlets.
History
The company was founded in 1877. It was formerly known as The Washington Post Company and changed its name to Graham Holdings Company in 2013.
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