Field Enterprises

Field Enterprises
Company type	Private
Industry	Media and publishing
Founded	August 31, 1944; 80 years ago
Founder	Marshall Field III
Defunct	April 1984; 40 years ago
Headquarters	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Area served	United States
Key people	Marshall Field IV, Peter W. Smith, Marshall Field V, Ted Field
Services	Print syndication, newspapers, books
Subsidiaries	Chicago Sun / Chicago Sun-Times (1944–1983); Parade magazine (1941–1958); Simon & Schuster (1944–1957); Pocket Books (1944–1957); World Book Encyclopedia (1945–1978); Chicago Sun Syndicate/Field Newspaper Syndicate/Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate/Publishers-Hall Syndicate (1941–1983); Chicago Daily News (1959–1978); Field Communications (1966–1983);

Field Enterprises, Inc. was a private holding company that operated from the 1940s to the 1980s, founded by Marshall Field III and others,^[1] whose main assets were the Chicago Sun and Parade magazine. For various periods of time, Field Enterprises also owned publishers Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books, broadcaster Field Communications, and the World Book Encyclopedia. It also operated a syndication service, Field Newspaper Syndicate,^[2] whose most popular offering was the comic strip Steve Canyon.