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[[Macmillan Publishers]] is a global trade book publishing company with prominent imprints around the world.
  
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See also [[Pan-Macmillan]] and [[Macmillan Education]]
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Often referred to simply as '''[[Macmillan]]'''.
  
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[[Macmillan Publishers]] is a global trade book publishing company with prominent imprints around the world.
 
  
 
== The company ==
 
== The company ==
  
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Nowadays Macmillan is one of the largest and best-known international publishers in the world, operating in over 70 countries.
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[[The Macmillan Group]] is one of the largest and best-known international publishers in the world today, operating in over 70 countries.
  
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The Macmillan Group
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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.  
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Pan Macmillan is part of the Macmillan Group, which operates in over 70 countries worldwide.  
 
  
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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.
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In late 1994, Macmillan publishing formally returned to South Africa and '''[[Macmillan South Africa]]''' (Pty) Ltd was established and registered.  
  
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Macmillan Publishers is a division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned media company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.
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is part of the Macmillan Group, which operates in over 70 countries worldwide. In South Africa Pan Macmillan is a trading division of [[Macmillan Publishers International Limited]].
  
  
  
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[[Pan Macmillan]] South Africa is a trading division of [[Macmillan Publishers International Limited]].
 
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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.
 
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In late 1994, Macmillan publishing formally returned to South Africa and '''[[Macmillan South Africa]]''' (Pty) Ltd was established and registered.
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 18:51, 9 November 2024

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

Often referred to simply as Macmillan.


The company

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

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.

is part of the Macmillan Group, which operates in over 70 countries worldwide. In South Africa Pan Macmillan is a trading division of Macmillan Publishers International Limited.



Sources

https://www.macmillaneducation.co.za/about-us/our-journey

http://www.macmillan.co.za/


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