Cengage Learning, Inc. provides educational technology solutions. It offers personalized services and course driven digital solutions for the higher education and K-12, professional, and library markets. The firm's brands include Brooks, Cole, Course Technology, Delmar, Gale, Heinle, South Western, and Wadsworth. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Cengage Learning Holdings II, Inc. is an education and technology company, which engages in the provision of content, print and digital teaching and learning solutions, software, and associated educational services. It operates through the following segments: Learning, Gale, and International. The Learning segment involves in producing a digital and print educational solutions and associated services for the academic, skills, and school markets. The Gale segment offers research platforms which provide access to original content, collections of primary source materials, and aggregated periodicals to learners at libraries, colleges, universities, schools, and businesses. The International segment consists of distributing educational solutions in academic disciplines. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals, empowering them to make better decisions, deliver better care, and sometimes make groundbreaking discoveries, that advance the boundaries of knowledge and human progress. Elsevier provides web-based, digital solutions — among them ScienceDirect, Scopus, Elsevier Research Intelligence, and ClinicalKey — and publishes nearly 2,200 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and over 25,000 book titles, including a number of iconic reference works. Elsevier is headquartered in Amsterdam, and is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world leading provider of professional information solutions.