Cengage Learning Holdings II, Inc. is an education and technology company, which engages in the provision of content, print and digital teaching and learning solutions, software, and associated educational services. The company is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut and currently employs 4,150 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2014-04-08. The firm is organized into three core business units: Cengage Academic, Cengage Work, and Cengage Select. In the Cengage Academic business unit, it integrates U.S. Higher Education, International Higher Education and Secondary Education in order to leverage synergies across these businesses that share content, technology platforms and support services. The Cengage Work business unit services the workforce skills market and includes the Company’s ed2go and Infosec businesses that leverage all the Company’s relationships, content and data to drive growth. The Cengage Select unit consists of four businesses, English language teaching (ELT), Research and Other (Australia K-12 and Milady), each serving select markets and customers. The company serves the higher education, secondary education, workforce skills, ELT and research markets worldwide. Within the research market, it operates principally under its Gale brand.