Top 100 Contractors in NAICS 5131: Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers, FY2025
Parent companies by net contract obligations Oct 1, 2024 – Sep 30, 2025 Code page on GovTribe
The top 10 won 60% of FY2025 NAICS 5131 contract dollars
Ranking facts
- Contract obligations
- $101,910,287 Net of deobligations, by contracts coded NAICS 5131 or a code under it
- Contractors
- 287 Parent companies with an obligation
- Largest contractor
- Relx Inc. $17.4 million, 16.9% of obligations
- Data as of
Contract actions from FPDS (SAM.gov). How the rankings work · Download all 100 rows as CSV
Full ranking
| Rank | Contractor | Net obligations | Share | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $17,410,685 | |||
| 2 | $11,060,342 | |||
| 3 | $9,387,238 | |||
| 4 | $6,595,537 | |||
| 5 |
Carnegie Learning Inc.
Top agencies
|
$4,115,346 | ||
| 6 |
Fors Marsh Group LLC
Top agencies
|
$3,684,830 | ||
| 7 | $3,213,773 | |||
| 8 | $2,691,587 | |||
| 9 | $2,429,359 | |||
| 10 | $1,408,552 | |||
| 11 | $1,390,000 | |||
| 12 | $1,353,854 | |||
| 13 | $1,339,547 | |||
| 14 | $1,162,775 | |||
| 15 |
First Databank Inc
|
$1,104,522 | ||
| 16 | $1,098,473 | |||
| 17 | $1,081,833 | |||
| 18 | $1,048,995 | |||
| 19 | $1,020,638 | |||
| 20 | $1,009,671 | |||
| 21 |
Vesequ LLC
Top agencies
|
$965,236 | ||
| 22 | $911,498 | |||
| 23 | $895,617 | |||
| 24 | $750,212 | |||
| 25 | $713,438 | |||
| 26 |
Financial Times Group Limited
|
$712,771 | ||
| 27 |
Thomson Company Inc the
|
$708,233 | ||
| 28 |
Proquest LLC
|
$651,031 | ||
| 29 | $647,767 | |||
| 30 |
Wolters Kluwer United States Inc.
|
$614,612 | ||
| 31 | $599,538 | |||
| 32 |
Axxis Software LLC
Top agencies
|
$585,510 | ||
| 33 |
Teton Data Systems
Top agencies
|
$527,055 | ||
| 34 | $510,160 | |||
| 35 | $506,625 | |||
| 36 |
Cengage Learning Holdings II Inc.
|
$473,741 | ||
| 37 | $413,586 | |||
| 38 | $410,550 | |||
| 39 | $367,873 | |||
| 40 | $337,977 | |||
| 41 |
The Reimagined Classroom LLC
Top agencies
|
$325,900 | ||
| 42 | $305,713 | |||
| 43 |
Blue Ivy Partners, LLC
Top agencies
|
$284,157 | ||
| 44 | $281,775 | |||
| 45 | $278,674 | |||
| 46 |
Observer Capital LLC
Top agencies
|
$275,625 | ||
| 47 | $270,837 | |||
| 48 |
Brodart Co
Top agencies
|
$268,816 | ||
| 49 |
American Physical Society
|
$264,102 | ||
| 50 |
IHS Global Inc
|
$261,413 | ||
| 51 |
Shoreland Inc.
Top agencies
|
$259,119 | ||
| 52 |
Networking Technology, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$253,750 | ||
| 53 | $243,967 | |||
| 54 | $234,600 | |||
| 55 | $229,627 | |||
| 56 |
Nationwide Pharmaceutical LLC
Top agencies
|
$227,120 | ||
| 57 | $217,988 | |||
| 58 | $214,579 | |||
| 59 | $204,256 | |||
| 60 |
Informa Business Intelligence Inc.
|
$198,583 | ||
| 61 | $195,000 | |||
| 62 | $182,660 | |||
| 63 |
Data Marketers, Inc.
Top agencies
|
$178,153 | ||
| 64 | $177,950 | |||
| 65 |
CQ-Roll Call Inc.
|
$173,977 | ||
| 66 | $171,497 | |||
| 67 | $170,517 | |||
| 68 | $170,000 | |||
| 69 | $168,840 | |||
| 70 | $165,384 | |||
| 71 | $164,942 | |||
| 72 | $155,832 | |||
| 73 | $148,129 | |||
| 74 | $147,574 | |||
| 75 |
AIP Publishing LLC
Top agencies
|
$146,396 | ||
| 76 | $144,703 | |||
| 77 |
Jane'S Group UK Limited
|
$143,275 | ||
| 78 |
Oil Price Information Service LLC
Top agencies
|
$141,873 | ||
| 79 |
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
|
$128,287 | ||
| 80 | $122,420 | |||
| 81 | $118,711 | |||
| 82 |
Cision US Inc.
Top agencies
|
$117,000 | ||
| 83 | $114,663 | |||
| 84 | $110,561 | |||
| 85 | $109,800 | |||
| 86 | $109,590 | |||
| 87 | $108,325 | |||
| 88 | $107,670 | |||
| 89 | $107,074 | |||
| 90 |
Rizzoli International Publications Inc.
Top agencies
|
$106,800 | ||
| 91 | $106,226 | |||
| 92 |
The Associated Press
Top agencies
|
$105,559 | ||
| 93 | $105,266 | |||
| 94 |
Sayari Analytics, LLC
Top agencies
|
$104,444 | ||
| 95 |
Urner Barry Publications Inc.
|
$100,898 | ||
| 96 | $100,483 | |||
| 97 |
Ebsco Industries Inc.
Top agencies
|
$93,759 | ||
| 98 | $93,512 | |||
| 99 | $93,400 | |||
| 100 |
Ansys Inc.
Top agencies
|
$93,360 |
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Rankings for the codes under NAICS 5131
| Code | Net obligations | Largest contractor |
|---|---|---|
| 51312 Periodical Publishers | $53,207,329 | Relx Inc. |
| 51319 Other Publishers | $22,955,073 | Allium US Holding LLC |
| 51313 Book Publishers | $22,521,567 | Effective Communication Strategies LLC |
| 51311 Newspaper Publishers | $2,515,855 | Financial Times Group Limited |
How this ranking works
- Source: every contract action FPDS records (as published on SAM.gov) in the period, as GovTribe received it.
- Amounts are net obligations: what was obligated, less what was deobligated. Shares are of $103 million obligated before deobligations, so they never pass 100%.
- Parent companies: each action counts under the ultimate parent its award record names, or under the awardee when it names none, so no dollar counts twice. Parents of the same name (Inc., LLC and the like aside) count as one company, since FPDS records a company's parent under more than one UEI over time. GovTribe corrects a few parents and names by hand; see the corrections.
- Fiscal year 2025 ran Oct 1, 2024 – Sep 30, 2025. The Department of Defense reports its contract actions to FPDS about 90 days late, so a fiscal year is ranked once they're in, in February, and the list doesn't change after.
- Rank changes compare with FY2024. "New" marks a company outside that period's top 500, and "Returned" one of those that was on an earlier fiscal year's list.
- Rank lines show each company's rank on every fiscal year's list since FY2023, #1 at the top, on a scale that gives the top of the list more room. A dashed stretch spans years it wasn't on the list. The step from FY2024 takes the color of the rank change beside it.
- Placeholder recipients FPDS uses when it names no company ("Miscellaneous Foreign Contractors" and the like) aren't ranked.
Quick answers
Who were the top 10 NAICS 5131 contractors in FY2025?
1. Relx Inc. ($17.4M), 2. Ebsco Information Services, LLC ($11.1M), 3. Allium US Holding LLC ($9.39M), 4. Effective Communication Strategies LLC ($6.6M), 5. Carnegie Learning Inc. ($4.12M), 6. Fors Marsh Group LLC ($3.68M), 7. Greenwich Associates LLC ($3.21M), 8. Savvas Learning Company LLC ($2.69M), 9. IQ Solutions, Inc. ($2.43M), 10. American Chemical Society ($1.41M).
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