Established in 1888, Renouf Publishing Company Limited is a privately owned corporation providing our customers exclusive access to over thirty-five international organizations' publications and documents.

At Renouf, we focus on customer-service, beginning with a well-trained and experienced team renowned for being both knowledgeable and dependable. Our team is in daily contact with the organizations we represent and with our worldwide contact network, we locate even the most difficult to find reports and international publications. If you are unable to locate the publication you are looking for through our online bookstore, please call us toll-free Monday through Thursday 8:30am-5:00pm - Friday 8:30am-4:30pm EST and we guarantee that you will be greeted by a person only too happy to assist you - never an answering machine.

We pride ourselves on being able to offer a wide-range of services designed to your needs. Whether you require a document couriered across the country for a special meeting or your budget can only afford to purchase an annual publication every other year under our Standing Order Plan, you will find our services to be as flexible as your needs. After 120 years in business, we've learned that a satisfied customer will come back again and again.

History

Renouf Publishing Company Limited was founded by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Michael Renouf in 1888. In addition to its publishing activities, the company was the Canadian distributor for a number of prestigious science and technical publishers such as John Wiley & Sons, Longman, Green & Company, Elsevier Science Publishers and Springer-Verlag.

The company remained in the hands of the Renouf family until it was purchased by Erland Hennings, a former vice-president with Volkswagen's Mexican division, in 1970. In 1972, the Canadian Government's Queen's Printer decided to discontinue the responsibility for the marketing and distribution of publications for several International Organizations and Renouf assumed those responsibilities. The government also closed its retail outlets that same year and Renouf took over their operations in Toronto and Montreal.

In 1986 the company was sold to a group of investors that included its current president Gordon Grahame. Gordon figuratively worked his way through the company for he started in the shipping room while attending college, spent three summers in the order department and was hired full-time as the company's controller when he finished university. Under his direction the company shifted its focus to making governmental and international publications more accessible.

Due to increasing demand, Renouf established an office in the United States in 1999. The company's sales along with its reputation for providing excellent customer-service have continued to grow and it is now the largest distributor of international publications in North America.

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Michael Renouf
Founder of Renouf Publishing Co. Ltd.