[3] The company has coverage of the country and the West African sub-regions through the location of its area offices, depots, showrooms and a number of representatives in major cities and towns nationwide and also in Accra, Ghana.

University Press plc started indigenizing its titles since 1963, when it came out with the first ever local educational publication in the country, Ijala Are Ode by Oladipo Yemitan.

[citation needed] Publications dating back to 1963 are kept in archives and preserved in memory of the authors in the Nigerian book industry.

Early publications that shaped the company and the Nigerian publishing industry include: Wole Soyinka Chukwuemeka Ike Ola Rotimi J. P. Clark Wande Abimbola Akinwunmi Isola Adebayo Faleti UPPLC has a growing archive of lines developed for the pre-primary, primary, secondary, teacher training, tertiary and general readership categories.

UPPLC also hosts different events at the Annual Nigeria International Book Fair (NIBF) by organizing activities for primary and secondary school children.

[4] UPPLC, has on two occasions, won the prestigious Stock Exchange Merit Award in the service sector of quoted companies.