The Macmillan Company
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New York, NY, 10022

From: http://www.macmillan.co.uk/Companyinfo/index.htm

Macmillan is a global publishing group that serves a wide variety of markets. Although we were founded in the United Kingdom, today we publish for readers in Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, the USA, Zimbabwe and many other countries. Our commitment is to quality publishing, whatever market we serve. Nowadays, this may mean publishing online resources or e-books, or printed books and journals. While we are proud of our heritage and outstanding history, we are committed to modern methods of production and distribution.

Macmillan was founded in 1843 by Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two brothers from the Scottish Isle of Arran. Daniel was the business brain, but it was Alexander who laid the literary foundations, publishing such greats as Charles Kingsley, Thomas Hughes, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and H.G. Wells.
Their publishing talents were not confined to literature. The Macmillan family's vision inspired both the publishing of major authors, such as W. B. Yeats, Sean O'Casey, John Maynard Keynes, Charles Morgan, Hugh Walpole, Margaret Mitchell. C. P. Snow and Rumer Godden, the creation of enduring copyrights such as Nature, launched in 1869, the renowned Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians in 1877 and Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy in 1899.

When Harold Macmillan retired from politics after his spell as Prime Minister, he initiated the ambitious expansion programme of the late 1960s. Serious academic, educational and literary publishing was followed by a significant expansion in college textbook, educational, scientific journals and reference programmes. New international opportunities were grasped and publishing operations set up in Japan, Mexico and the emerging markets of Africa and Asia. The company is today in real terms six times the size that it was 30 years ago.

Macmillan now operates in over 70 countries around the world. The tradition of investing for the long term continues today with the publication of major new works to serve our international readers: in 1996 The Dictionary of Art; in 2001 The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences; and an expanding list of journals from Nature which cover the latest trends in scientific research. All these works are available on the Internet as well as in print.

Today, Macmillan can be found providing school textbooks for children in Africa; English language textbooks for students in Mexico City or Barcelona; research for scientists working to discover the secrets of the human genome; reference resources and textbooks for university students; the latest best-selling novel by Wilbur Smith or Helen Fielding; and the finest contemporary writing in the Picador list.

The Macmillan group is owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, a large German-based company with interests which include book, magazine and newspaper publishing, television, radio and other new media.