In 1994, Lorimar Publishing Incorporated was established by Mr. Larry G. Martinez. Its first business venture was publishing Tagalog romance pocketnovels producing 8 titles a month. Thru the years Lorimar has been doing this consistently releasing 12 titles a month for the next 6 years totaling of more that 500 titles, making Lorimar one of the industry’s leader in publishing romance pocket novel and later awarded by the Manila Critics Circle for its valuable contribution in tagalog publications.

By the year 2000, LORIMAR entered into another dimension in the publishing sector and that was producing and developing instructional or learning materials now called as work text. Starting with just one title authored by one of the prominent writers in the field of education ,Dr Brenda B. Corpuz . Today, LORIMAR now has more than 40 publications in the college level alone. Not to mention elementary and high school level as well, particularly subjects in Values Education, Filipino and MAPEH. Our latest which are the K to 12 Kindergarten series both in mother tongue and in english versions, these series adhere to the latest curriculum, making Lorimar continuously publishing more learning materials to other subject areas.

Producing and developing more publications, LORIMAR is now anchoring itself to teacher education for the college level, thus publishing learning materials intended for the teacher education curriculum for Bachelor in Science in Elementary and Secondary Education(BSEED / BSSED).

To date, Lorimar is with an exclusive partnership with the Philippine Association For Teacher Education (PAFTE). PAFTE is a premier and active teacher organization in the Philippines with coordination and updates with the Department of Education (DepED), the Commission on Higher Education(CHED), the Teacher Education Council (TEC), the Philippine Regulation Commission (PRC), the National Organization of Professional Teachers  (NOPT) and other various teacher education organizations be it government or non-government.Under this partnership, Project: WRITE is formed, in which both LORIMAR and PAFTE agreed to produce the latest learning materials to be used by the students taking updegrees in teacher education in compliance to the latest BEED and BSED curriculum prescribed.

Under the Project: WRITE, more than 30 professional books for teacher education have been published so far and continuously making more. At present, Lorimar and PAFTE are now producing learning material for major subjects in the college of education. Lorimar and PAFTE also agreed to expand the boundaries of teacher education to make, develop and produce learning materials for the pre-school and special education curriculum commonly known as SPED.Also in agreement, Lorimar and PAFTE are partners in conducting seminars and workshops that will make our student teachers and teachers whether in private or public school system to be more effective and efficient in their teaching strategies and methods, and also their relationship with their students, parents, school heads and teacher organizations.

 

 

After achieving all of these through our quality learning materials, one begins a new stage in life as a graduate that will embark him/her to a journey to his/her career whether locally or globally but before all this happens, achievement records are needed. Now, Lorimar expanded its dimension by creating a system in which a graduate through his/her school can secure his/her gained educational status by giving  them the protection of their valued achievement records such as diplomas and transcripts. With this system, a graduate can be assured that their records will be safe by protecting it from unscrupulous and manipulating elements.  Through this we will be working hand in hand with the schools to assure that all these will not happen to any graduate. Both by learning materials and protecting a student’s life achievement earned through years of perseverance and studying, Lorimar believes we can make it happen.

 

The learning process begins on the first day of school up to the time he graduates and receives his diploma and achievement records, we at LORIMAR will assure every student and graduate. To do this, our learning materials, we choose the most competent, well learned, honest and of good moral character the writers to author our publications and extending it beyond that by protecting their achievement records and assuring them of its validity, with these attributes we believe we solidify our commitment: QUALITY INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR QUALITY EDUCATION. With our publications especially for education students, we believe, LORIMAR can contribute greatly in making them confident, competent, competitive, effective, efficient and quality teachers not just in the Philippines but also globally.