Macmillan is one of the largest and best-known international publishers in the world. Its publishing endeavours encompasses high-quality academic as well as educational books, fiction and non-fiction books, STM and social science journals, educational course materials, dictionaries, university textbooks, academic monographs and reference books. Macmillan operates in over seventy countries. The diversity and relative autonomy of the individual companies within the group ensures a vibrancy and local relevance to its publishing in all markets. One of Macmillan’s strengths is its ability to focus on organic development and investment for the long term. Macmillan prides itself on its willingness to innovate and on employing people with creative-business sense to develop and implement new ideas.

Macmillan stands out for its commitment to service. It is one of the large publishing groups that serve third party clients and its own companies with services including typesetting and data capture, web design and development in India, print sourcing facilities in the Far East, and warehousing and fulfilment in the UK, USA and Australia. Its client-list includes many other publishers, ranging from Reed Elsevier, Bloomsbury to Yellow Pages.

The Macmillan group is owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, a large media group created in 1971. Holtzbrinck owns around 40 companies besides Macmillan and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Its interests include book, magazine and newspaper publishing and media firms.

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