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For companies and organizations
For businesses, family firms, associations and institutions marking 25, 50, 75 or 100 years. We research your archives, interview the people who built it, design a book worthy of the occasion and deliver it to every office, client and partner on the day.
Tell us the milestone and the date. A project manager replies within one business day with a plan and what the quote will be priced from.
The short answer
Columbia Publication writes, designs, prints and delivers company history and anniversary books for businesses, family firms, associations and institutions. One project manager runs archive research and fact-checking, interviews with founders, executives and staff, writing, design with your archival photographs, approvals, and printing in hardcover or premium editions with art paper, slipcases, foil or embossing, delivered to every office, client and partner. Each project is quoted to its specification.
Prices checked November 12, 2026 · Reviewed by Gia Kahn, Lead Editor · Next review November 2026 · How we check
Is this you?
A company history is usually started too late and handed to too many people.
Marketing collects photos, a long-serving employee drafts chapters, a designer lays it out and a printer quotes whatever file arrives. Dates conflict, the founder’s story is told three ways, nobody owns the facts, and the book is still at the printer the week of the anniversary.
We run the whole project as one job: research and interviews, writing, a fact-checked manuscript, design, premium printing and delivery, with one project manager working back from your milestone date.
What the project includes
Five parts, held by one project manager.
| Part | What we do | What you approve |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Research | Archive review and fact-checking against company records, or writing from the material you supply | The timeline and the sources |
| 2. Interviews | Founders, executives, long-serving staff, clients and partners, remotely or in person | Who is interviewed |
| 3. Writing | The history told as a story, in the company’s voice, with a timeline and executive contributions | Every chapter |
| 4. Design | Archival photographs and documents laid out with the text, timelines and captions | Layout and cover proofs |
| 5. Print and delivery | Hardcover, premium and presentation editions, printed and delivered to every site | The physical proof and the delivery plan |
Photographs and documents should be cleared for use by your organization; we flag any image whose rights are unclear before it goes to print.
Plan My Company History BookResearch and accuracy
Either. Our writers can work through your archives, annual reports, minutes, press coverage and photographs, interview the people who were there, and check dates, names and figures against the records. If your team has already assembled the history, we write from that material instead. Anything we cannot verify is flagged to you before it goes in, and every chapter is approved by the person you name.
The physical book
A milestone book is often a gift to employees, clients and shareholders, so the object matters. Options include large formats, art paper for photograph-heavy spreads, cloth or leather covers, foil stamping, embossing or debossing, dust jackets, gilded edges and presentation slipcases. Color proofs are approved before the run, so photographs print as intended. Standard hardcover and paperback editions can be printed alongside a smaller presentation edition.
Need a presentation edition for the board and a standard edition for staff?
Plan My Company History BookTimeline
Work back from the date. Research, interviews and writing take the longest and depend on how much material exists and how many people are interviewed. Design and approvals follow, then printing: large runs usually take 4 to 12 weeks, depending on binding, finishes and delivery destinations. Starting a year ahead is comfortable; we confirm a schedule against your milestone date in the plan.
Getting it to people
Yes. Delivery is planned before printing, with cartons counted and labeled for each office, event or client list, in the US and internationally. Translated editions, including right-to-left scripts, can be produced through our translation service, and an ISBN and retail listing can be added if the book should also be available to the public.
Where you are starting
Every project is quoted to its scope, format and quantity, never from a calculator.
History written
Quoted to spec
Your history text designed with photographs and timelines, proofed, printed and delivered.
Your company’s own history turned into a book that looks worthy of the milestone.
Premium finishes available
Plan My Company History BookMost chosen
Quoted to spec
Archive research, interviews and fact-checking, the written history, design, printing and delivery.
The whole history researched and written for you, delivered in print for the date.
One project manager throughout
Plan My Company History BookMilestone program
Quoted to spec
Everything in the full project, plus a presentation edition, translated editions or a public retail edition.
One history in every format the anniversary needs, from slipcased board copies to a public edition.
Board, staff and public editions
Plan My Company History BookWhat protects your organization before work starts
Your quote lists the scope and specification it is priced from. Payment is in full upfront once you approve it.
What you can count on
How it runs
We’ve started with Publishing & distribution. Add anything else your manuscript needs, and a specialist sends an itemized quote within one business day. Free, confidential, no obligation.
Your quote within one business day. Nothing is charged until you approve it. 100% of your rights stay yours.
Questions
Columbia Publication manages the whole project: archive research, interviews with founders and staff, writing, design with your photographs, printing and delivery, with one project manager working back from your anniversary date.
Yes. Interviews can be remote or in person, and we agree the list with you before they start.
Yes, or we write from the material your team supplies. Dates, names and figures are checked against the records, and anything we cannot verify is flagged to you.
Your organization, as the owner of the archive. We flag any image whose rights look unclear before it goes to print.
Yes. Large formats, art paper, cloth or leather covers, foil stamping, embossing, dust jackets and slipcases are available, with color proofs approved before printing.
Yes. Runs of that size are printed offset, usually within 4 to 12 weeks depending on binding and finishes, and delivered to one site or many, in the US and abroad.
Each project is quoted to its scope: how much research and how many interviews, page count, format and finishes, quantity and delivery. Your quote lists exactly what it is priced from, within one business day of the brief.
In full upfront, once you approve the written scope and quote.
Send what you have, from boxes of archives to a finished history. A project manager replies within one business day.
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