In 2009, Berlitz acquired Phoenix Associates Co., Ltd. (Today, Berlitz Publishing is owned by APA Publications. In 2002, Berlitz publishing was sold to Langenscheidt. In 2001, Berlitz became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Benesse Corporation. Ltd., now known as the Benesse Corporation, a Japanese publisher of correspondence courses and other educational materials, began purchasing Berlitz stock. In November 1988, Maxwell Communication Corporation took over Macmillan, and just a year later, Berlitz was made public. Robert Strumpen-Darrie continued as president until his retirement in 1970, Raphael Alberola became CEO for about 4 or 5 years and then Elio Boccitto led the company through most of the 1980s. In 1966, Berlitz became a subsidiary of Macmillan, Inc. Today there are more than 90 Berlitz centers in Asia. In 1966, Berlitz reached Asia, starting with a language center in Tokyo. In the 1950s, Berlitz opened its first Latin American language center in Mexico, followed by locations in Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Peru. Jacques' son Robert succeeded his father as president in 1953. The control of the company was thereafter passed to Jacques Strumpen-Darrie. Harrison died in 1932, and control passed briefly to his son, Victor Harrison-Berlitz Jr.

His son-in-law and associate, Victor Harrison-Berlitz, assumed leadership of the business. Growth īy the time of the start of World War I in 1914, there were over 200 Berlitz Schools worldwide. By 1914, there were about 200 Berlitz schools 63 Berlitz schools in Germany, and 27 in Britain. In 1895, a children's language learning book was published by Maximilian Berlitz. In 1886, he moved the headquarters and his personal residence to New York City. Soon after, he opened schools in New York and New Jersey.

A decade later, Berlitz moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and opened additional schools. The first Berlitz language school opened in Providence, Rhode Island, in July 1878. The first Berlitz Language School in Providence, Rhode Island (1878) īerlitz started in 1878, when Maximilian Berlitz was in need of an assistant French instructor he employed a Frenchman by the name of Nicholas Joly, only soon to discover that Joly barely spoke English, and was hired to teach French to English speakers in their native language.

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