Essex has published Building Commerce, a 150th-anniversary book for Missouri-based Commerce Bank. The 144-page book, created largely for a readership of employees and retirees, shareholders, customers, community leaders and other VIPs, tells the story of the Woods and Kemper families and how they turned a single banking office in Kansas City in 1865 into a super-community bank with 350 offices across the central United States, from Ohio and Tennessee west to the front range of the Rocky Mountains and from Illinois south to Texas.

Cook Group, the first company to introduce devices for interventional medicine in the United States, chose Essex Publishing to produce a book about its European operation. In 2009 the Essex team produced Snowing in Chicago, the story of the founding and growth of Cook in the United States.

WellStar, the Georgia health system for which Essex produced the book Life Well-Lived in early 2013, has chosen Essex again—this time for a book about its medical staff. The new book, scheduled for publication in the spring of 2015, will document changes in medical care from the family doctor/small community hospital model of the late 1940s, when the first of WellStar’s five hospitals was chartered, to today’s team approach to care within an integrated delivery model.

At a VIP event on May 14, WellStar Health System introduced its book, Life Well-Lived: WellStar-The First 20 Years, which Essex Publishing Group produced to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the system's formation. The 136-page book, e-book and accompanying DVD document the story of the system’s establishment along with the histories of its hospitals, urgent care centers and medical practices.