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Red Wheel/Weiser

Logo: Red Wheel/Weiser, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

American occult book publisher

Red Wheel/Weiser, also known in different periods in its history as RedWheel/Weiser/Conari and Samuel Weiser, Inc., is a book publishing company with several imprints, probably the best known of which are Conari Books, Red Wheel, and Weiser Books. It is America's second-largest publisher of occult and New Age books, behind Llewellyn Worldwide, and is also one of the oldest American publishers to concentrate almost exclusively on that genre and adjacent ones (e.g.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1956Founded1

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Red Wheel/Weiser, also known in different periods in its history as RedWheel/Weiser/Conari and Samuel Weiser, Inc., is a book publishing company with several imprints, probably the best known of which are Conari Books, Red Wheel, and Weiser Books. It is America's second-largest publisher of occult and New Age books, behind Llewellyn Worldwide, and is also one of the oldest American publishers to concentrate almost exclusively on that genre and adjacent ones (e.g.2

Corporate structure

Red Wheel/Weiser sits at the top of its group. 5 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. 2023Quest Books became a subsidiary1
  2. 2017Career Press became a subsidiary1
  3. 2017New Page Books became a subsidiary1
  4. 2004Phanes Press became a subsidiary1

Timeline

  1. 1956Founded Founded1

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$325.1K 2020–2020
Money received by yearMoney received by year, 2020–2020: $325.1K in all. PPP loans $325.1K.$0$100K$200K$300K$400K2020 · PPP loans: $325.1K2020
Figures by year
YearPPP loansTotal
2020$325.1K$325.1K

PPP loans

Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA4. Matched to this company by name and state.

  1. Apr 14, 2020$325.1K PPP loan (first draw) from Primis Bank4To RED WHEEL WEISER LLC, Newburyport MA; $326.9K forgiven Nov 3, 2020

Sources

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