Robert Hale Ltd, a popular publishing choice for many WM readers, ceased trading as a publisher on 1 December last year, after nearly eighty years in business. Company chairman John Hale is intending to retire in the spring, and realise the family’s assets.
Robert Hale was founded in 1936 and its titles, which included hardback fiction, non-fiction, mind, body and spirit titles, equestrian books and the only specialist Western line in UK print publishing, were largely aimed at the library market. Ten people have been made redundant as a result of the company’s closure, and another four people will become redundant when the company is formally wound up in the spring.