Macmillan

See also Pan-Macmillan and Macmillan Education

Macmillan Publishers is a global trade book publishing company with prominent imprints around the world.

The company

Nowadays Macmillan is one of the largest and best-known international publishers in the world, operating in over 70 countries.

The Macmillan Group Pan Macmillan is part of the Macmillan Group, which operates in over 70 countries worldwide.

Macmillan Publishers is a global trade book publishing company with prominent imprints around the world. Macmillan publishes a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and format. U.S. publishers include Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Picador, St. Martin’s Press, and Tor Books. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, Macmillan publishes under the Pan Macmillan name. The German company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

Macmillan Publishers is a division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned media company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.

Pan Macmillan South Africa is a trading division of Macmillan Publishers International Limited.

The company was founded by Daniel Macmillan who, together with his brother Alexander, published their first book in 1843. Daniel's grandson, Harold Macmillan, joined in 1923 and contributed to the company's success over a period of more than 60 years. He was Prime Minister of the UK from and his famous "winds of change" tour of Africa in the 1960s not only changed the political face of Africa, but also provided the grand old man of publishing an opportunity to expand the Macmillan publishing empire throughout the continent – from oil rich Nigeria to diamond rich South Africa.

In late 1994, Macmillan publishing formally returned to South Africa and Macmillan South Africa (Pty) Ltd was established and registered.