BarCharts, Inc.

BarCharts Publishing, Inc. is the creator of QuickStudy, a popular brand of laminated academic reference guides designed to provide a "textbook's worth of information" in a concise, 2 to 3-panel format. These guides are intended to boost grades and test scores by serving as a quick-reference outline for key subject points. BarCharts was conceived in early 1991 while Bobbie Ford, sitting at her kitchen table, was studying constitutional law for the bar exam, and penciled a flow chart summarizing the pertinent points. She made copies and her law school friends loved them. Her husband, John Ford, saw opportunity. At first, BarCharts was a modest business that created and sold guides dealing with torts and criminal law.