mcpherson publishing company

No. We publish information that is verifiable and/or authenticated by the submitter. Our goal is to keep the price of the publication as low as possible. We know that we can help more people if we can keep the price of the guide down.

It depends. If your company is small but merges into a larger company that is already listed in Who’s Who, we will list the merger (if we are made aware of it via our sources). But, because our mission is to help the largest number of people possible at the lowest possible cost, this means keeping the size of the listings in Who’s Who under control. We don’t try to be all things to all people.

Anyone. If you know the history of a company, or would like to submit your company’s history, visit our YOU CAN HELP page and download and submit the document called Tell Us About Your Company.

We have considered doing a mid-year update and may in the future. But, right now, annually seems to be the best combination of new data for the guide and pricing. Pricing is affected by frequency of publication and, again, low cost is one of our primary objectives.

We have looked at a number of on-line options and have found that offering an on-line version (if we did it right) would cause the cost of the printed version to increase. When we proposed this – including the cost – to our focus group, the answer was… "keep it like it is, we love it." The message that we got most is that Who’s Who is small, portable, doesn’t need access to the Internet and costs less than a couple of pizzas – keep it that way. So, that’s our plan – for now anyway.

Because the mission of Who’s Who is to help the most people at the lowest possible price, we don’t publish a hard-bound version. Another reason for the format is so that it can be easily stowed in a jacket pocket

We have one advertising slot available, which is the front-inside cover. This slot is currently spoken for through 2019.

Is McPubCo owned by Oil-Law Records Corp. of Oklahoma City?

No.

How did this whole thing get started?

McPubCo was started in 1985 after Cheryl McPherson, an oil and gas revenue and division order accountant, and several of her associates pooled lists that they had been keeping for many years to help them track down missing or lost revenue interest owners in wells. Cheryl and her associates had numerous all-nighters during 1985 working to pool the lists, eliminate redundancy, increase quality, look for other sources, and combine it all into a single living, verifiable list that they could all use in their respective oil and gas accounting jobs.

Soon, it became clear that the time commitment required to keep the list going and legitimate was beyond anything that the group wanted to do. They decided that one of them would structure the list as a business, bind it into a book, and keep it up for the whole industry. Cheryl volunteered for the duty and the first edition was published in March of 1986.

The design initiatives which were created by that small group headed by Cheryl McPherson back in 1985 are the same as we have today…., keep Who’s Who updated on a regular basis and make it so affordable that everyone would be able to have it.