Söderströms Förlag

{{Short description|Finnish Swedish-language publisher}}{{Infobox publisher|name=Söderströms Förlags Ab|successor=Schildts & Söderströms|country=Finland|founder=Gustaf Leopold Söderstrom|founded=1860}}

Söderströms Förlags Ab is a Finnish Swedish-language publishing company, founded in 1891 by publisher Werner Söderström.

Gustaf Leopold Söderström had started a printing company and publishing house in 1860, Söderström & Co.{{cite news |last1=Paro |first1=Maj-Britt |title=En familj blev flera förlag |work=Hufvudstadsbladet |date=6 March 2012 |pages=21–22 |language=Swedish}} His son, Werner Söderström, who had been had been active as a publisher since 1878, took over his father's publishing business in 1888. In 1891 he decided to divide his Swedish- and Finnish-language publishing activities between two corporations.{{Cite web|title=SÖDERSTRÖM, Werner|url=https://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=3652|access-date=2021-12-19|website=Biografiskt lexikon för Finland|language=sv}} The Finnish part became Werner Söderströms (commonly referred to as WSOY) while the Swedish part was sold to Förlags AB Söderström in order to allow him to concentrate on the Finnish publishing.

In 2012, Förlags AB Söderström merged with Schildts to form Schildts & Söderströms.{{cite news |title=Förlag går samman |work=Östgöta Correspodenten |date=3 October 2011 |language=Swedish}}{{Cite web|date=2011-10-07|title=Går ihop för att överleva|url=https://www.svb.se/nyheter/gar-ihop-att-overleva|access-date=2021-12-20|website=Svensk Bokhandel|language=sv}} It was one of the two major Swedish publishing houses in Finland, and after the merger the market was dominated by one company.{{cite news |last1=Ritamäki |first1=Tapani |last2=Ingström |first2=Pia |title=När Svenskfinland krympte |work=Hufvudstadsbladet |date=8 February 2012 |pages=18–19 |language=Swedish}} WSOY, in turn, was acquired by Sanoma in 1999 and later sold to Bonnier Group in 2011.{{cite web|title=What we do|url=https://www.sanoma.com/en/what-we-do/|author=Sanoma|date=n.d.|access-date=19 December 2021}}{{cite news|title=Sanoma myy WSOY:n Bonnierille|trans-title=Sanoma sells WSOY to Bonnier|work=Taloussanomat|date= 29 April 2011}}