[3] The company employs about 50 people and generates an annual sales turnover of $27.72 million.

[4] Founded in 1959 by people associated with the Polish Roman Catholic weekly magazine Tygodnik Powszechny and the monthly periodical Znac, the company called itself a "Społeczny Instytut" (social institute) to remove itself from the Polish communist government's tight control of book publishing at that time.

[1] In the martial law years (1981-83) Znak was "a bridge between public and underground writing".

[1] Authors published in the 1990s included Joseph Brodsky, Umberto Eco, Leszek Kolakowski, Stanislaw Lem and Czesław Miłosz.

One of Znak's bestselling titles (selling 180,000 copies by early 1998)[1] was Boże igrzysko: Historia Polski (1989), the Polish language translation of Norman Davies's God's Playground, a comprehensive two volume history of Poland.