Executives Exit Meulenhoff.(purge by parent company)(Brief Article)

Amsterdam's Meulenhoff & Co., the largest constellation of Dutch trade imprints by far, has been subjected to a purge by its parent company, PCM, leading to the early retirement of one of the Netherlands' best known publishers, Laurens van Krevelen. Krevelen had long managed the group's core imprint, Meulenhoff, going on from there to sit on the management board of the parent company with responsibility for trade operations throughout the group. That included flagship house J.M. Meulenhoff for upscale translations; the country's leading commercial fiction imprint, De Boekerij; the Unieboek constellation of trade logos; eclectic Prometheus/Bert Bakker; and a more recent …