Company History

Bookpoint was founded in 1973 as a supplier of general distribution services. In 1992 the business was purchased by Headline Publishing Group to offer high quality distribution of products to the book industry.

After the merger of Hodder & Stoughton and Headline in 1993, the decision was taken by the newly created Hodder Headline Group to centralise its distribution at Bookpoint on Milton Park. In June 1999, WH Smith plc acquired the Hodder Headline group including Bookpoint Ltd.

In 2004, WH Smith sold the Hodder Group, including Bookpoint, to the Hachette UK Group. Hachette UK is the largest and one of the most diversified book publishers in the UK. Hachette UK are owned by Hachette Livre, the global publishing group based in France, which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardere.

The Bookpoint warehouse holds approximately 30 million books, 67,000 titles and despatches up to 200,000 books per day.