Corporate Overview

For more than 139 years, Follett Higher Education Group has been making incredible strides in the industry. From our simple beginnings as a small bookstore in Wheaton, Illinois, we've become a world-class, multi-channel academic retailer operating more than 930 college and university bookstores. Providing course materials and management services for both local operations and online stores, we are higher education's leading campus retailer and largest wholesaler. Anchored by an assortment of products and services driving access and affordability - including Rent-A-Text and our digital textbook platform CafeScribe - Follett Higher Education Group continues to see growth across our channels, evolving our bookstores of today to the campus stores of tomorrow.

We continue to stress the foundations that we value most...Customers, Teamwork, Integrity, Accountability, Innovation and Each & Every Associate. They are at the heart of our unique corporate culture. Whether you're a customer, an employee, or a vendor, our service to you is unparalleled. So much so, we stake our reputation on it.

Fast Facts:

• Follett pioneered selling textbooks online in 1995 and introduced efollett.com in 1999, which is the most visited ecommerce collegiate website and ranked as the 58th largest US ecommerce site by Internet Retailer.
• Follett launched Rent-A-Text, the fastest growing and most successful textbook rental rollout in the industry, in fall 2010 and has saved students more than $130 million compared to the cost of buying new books.
• With Follett's CafeScribe platform, students have the option to utilize digital textbooks with better study tools, more accessibility on different types of devices and more book titles than ever before.
• Our new Aurora, Illinois based distribution center will process over 16 million orders annually, fulfill over 40,000 orders daily during peak business periods and service more than 1,600 independent campus stores.
• With over 930 stores, we are the largest operator of college bookstores in North America.
• Through Follett's "click and mortar" approach to products and services, more than 5 million students and 400,000 faculty are annually served.
• A ranking of 12th in Crain's Chicago Business listing of the largest private firms in Illinois.
• A ranking of 155 out of Forbes Magazine listing of the largest private companies in the United States.