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Division · Ventures

Brands that carry their own name.

Some things do not belong under an electronics mark. Teaching, literature and comics each need their own name, their own catalogue and their own audience, so they are run as brands in their own right rather than as product lines.

The software that serves them sits in the software division. What follows is the brands themselves.

Brands and imprints

The teaching brand. Vocational diploma programmes across a range of disciplines, designed so that a working person can finish one alongside a job and come out with something an employer recognises.

Academy is built for delivery in partnership with colleges and training centres as well as directly. Institutional enquiries are welcome at any stage.

  • Diploma programmes
  • Institutional partnerships
  • Runs on the Academy platform
HOB Academy mark
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An imprint for original fiction and the writing around it. The remit is deliberately narrow: work that would struggle to find a home in a catalogue built around volume, published properly rather than published quickly.

Submissions and rights enquiries are handled through the main enquiry form until the imprint has its own channel.

  • Original fiction
  • Print and digital editions
  • Submissions by enquiry
Litverse Chronicles mark
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A publishing house for comics and graphic fiction in the Indian market, working along three routes: licensed editions printed locally, imported original editions for resale, and translation of titles into Indian languages.

The catalogue also includes public domain strip material brought back into print. RH Goldenwolf is separately incorporated and operates under its own name.

  • Licensed and imported editions
  • Translation into Indian languages
  • Public domain restorations
  • Separately incorporated
RH Goldenwolf mark
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Why they are separate

A mark should mean one thing.

Putting a diploma programme and a power bank behind the same name asks a buyer to trust one thing on the strength of another, which is how brands stop meaning anything. Each venture is judged on its own catalogue.

What they share is how they are run: written standards, honest status, and support decided before launch rather than after the first complaint.

Licensing, distribution and institutional enquiries.

Tell us which brand you are approaching and we will route it to the right desk.

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