About Us - The Macmillan Group
The Macmillan Group is the United Kingdom’s largest independent publisher with a network of subsidiary and associated agents throughout the world, including Europe, North America, Australasia, the Far East, Japan, the Middle East, India, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The Group is prominent across a range of publishing, including trade, educational, academic and professional books, journals, magazines and major reference works.
Founded in 1843, Macmillan is a privately owned publishing group belonging to Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH. Macmillan’s corporate web site has information on all the Macmillan subsidiary and associated companies. Holtzbrinck is a large German-based publishing company with interests which include book, magazine and newspaper publishing, television, radio and other new media.
Click on the links below for more information on companies within the Macmillan Group:
* Please also note that Free Press, Crowell-Collier, Collier-Macmillan, and Macmillan Inc (formerly the Macmillan Company of New York) are not part of the Macmillan Group in the UK, but are part of Simon and Schuster in the USA