About Us
Macmillan is one of the largest and best known international publishing houses in the world, characterised by academic and professional, educational, fiction and non-fiction publishing of the highest quality. Powerful brands owned by Macmillan, such as Macmillan Education, Nature, Palgrave Macmillan, Pan and Picador are now established in 70 countries.
Company Profile
The Macmillan Group is a private publishing group owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. Holtzbrinck's activities are focused on book publishing, scientific, technical and medical magazines and journals, business publications, economic research and consulting, newspapers and multimedia.
Macmillan Publishers Ltd operates in over 70 countries. It is made up of over 50 different divisions and operates in 5 different areas of publishing:
- education publishing including English language teaching (ELT)
- academic publishing including reference
- science, technological and medical publishing
- fiction, non-fiction and children’s book publishing
- publishing services including distribution and production
In Australia, Macmillan is made up of:
Macmillan Education (primary and secondary schools and ELT publishing)
Palgrave Macmillan (academic trade and text, and scientific, technical, medical, professional and reference publishing)
Pan Macmillan (fiction, non-fiction and children’s book publishing)
Macquarie Dictionary Publishers (print and online reference publishing)
Nature Publishing Group (scientific and medical excellence online)
Macmillan Distribution Services (distribution service provider)
Macmillan Publishing Services (third party sales and distribution)
History of Macmillan
Macmillan was founded in 1843 by two Scottish brothers, Daniel and Alexander Macmillan; the company started off publishing Charles Kingsley (1855), Thomas Hughes (1859), Francis Turner Palgrave (1861), Christina Rossetti (1862), Matthew Arnold (1865) and Lewis Carroll (1865). Tennyson joined the list in 1884, Thomas Hardy in 1886 and Rudyard Kipling in 1890.
Nature, the company’s flagship and world’s leading science journal, was launched in 1869 and in the same year Macmillan opened a branch office in New York. In 1899 Palgrave’s Dictionary of Political Economy, a reference work now due to appear in its third edition, was first published.
Macmillan Publishers Australia celebrated its 100th year in Australia in 2004, with the establishment of the first Australian office in Melbourne in 1904.
Macmillan Publishers Australia 2007.