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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Wolters Kluwer
Founded in 1836, Wolters Kluwer is a Dutch global information service company dedicated to professionals in the legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare markets. Four divisions provide information, software, and services: Legal & Regulatory, Tax & Accounting, Health, and Financial & Compliance Services. The company operates in over 35 countries.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Wiley
Wiley competes in three markets, represented by its core divisions: Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly (STMS); Professional/Trade (P/T); and Global Education. STMS (also known as Wiley-Blackwell) is the largest publisher for professional and scholarly societies. Wiley-Blackwell's programs encompass journals, books, major reference works, databases, and laboratory manuals, offered in print and electronically. P/T serves professionals and consumers alike, producing books, subscription content, and information services in all media under targeted categories. The portfolio of global brands includes For Dummies and Frommer's. Global Education publishes educational materials in all media formats.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Westermann
Founded in 1838, Westermann imprints include, as of today, Schroedel, Diesterweg, Schoeningh, Westermann, Winklers, Spectra, Logo, Advesco, Schubi, Dorner, Westermann Wien; Arena Verlag with Ensslin, Westermann Lernspielverlag.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Weka
On October 1, 1973, Werner and Karin Mützel founded the WEKA Specialist Publishing House for Public Authorities and Industry. Conceived as a German specialist publishing group with an international focus, WEKA has grown to become a corporate group with more than 20 companies throughout Europe.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Springer Science+Business Media
Springer specializes in scientific and professional materials, with ca. 2,000 journals and 7,000 new book titles per year, mainly in science, technical and medical, transport and architecture. The Springer eBook collection (SpringerLink) offers more than 50,000 titles, and is expected to merge the Springer Book Archives for a combined list of more than 110,000 by the end of 2012.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Scholastic
In 2011, Scholastic celebrated its 90th anniversary. The company publishes and distributes children’s books, educational technology products, and children’s media. Businesses are categorized into four segments: Children’s Book Publishing and Distribution; Educational Publishing; Media, Licensing and Advertising, which collectively represent the domestic operations; and International. Children’s Book Publishing and Distribution includes US school-based book clubs and fairs, ecommerce, and the trade channel. Scholastic and its subsidiaries compete in more than 140 counties.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster is the Publishing segment of the CBS Corporation, and publishes and distributes consumer books under imprints such as Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, Scribner and Free Press.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Shueisha
Headquartered in Tokyo, Shueisha is the largest manga publisher in the world, with an alleged market share in Japan of 30%. It belongs to the Hitotsubashi Group, a “keiretsu,” or holding structure, that owns the Shogakukan, Shueisha and Hakusensha publishing groups.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Shogakukan Inc.
Shogakukan was founded by Takeo Oga, grandfather of today’s president Masahiro Oga, on August 8,1922. The company was founded primarily for educational publishing, with a focus on magazines for elementary school students as well as instructional magazines for teachers. The variety of publications then gradually expanded to pre-school children's magazines, general magazines and book publications such as illustrated reference books, dictionaries and encyclopaedias.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Shinchosha
Founded in 1896, Shinchosha Publishing Company publishes general literature, fiction, non-fiction, fine arts, philosophy and dictionaries as well as Mangas. It also sponsors four art prizes, collectively known as the 'Four Shincho Prizes' (Shincho Yonsho), including the Fantasy Novel award.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Saraiva
Saraiva is a leading publisher and bookseller in Brazil, offering a complete catalogue of elementary and high school textbooks, readers, law books, business administration, economics, business literature, and accounting books. The company claims a domesitc market share of 20.5% in professional and technical books and 12.6% in textbooks.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Santillana
Santillana is a textbook and general-interest publishing group in Spain and Latin America with an international presence in 22 countries. Since March 2000, Santillana has been part of PRISA, which provides education, news and information, and entertainment as the largest media group in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking markets.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: RCS Libri (RCS MediaGroup)
RCS MediaGroup is an international multimedia group that produces daily newspapers, magazines, books, radio broadcasting, new media, digital and satellite TV. Forty percent of sales are generated outside Italy, with a significant presence in Spain, Portugal, France, the US, and China. RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. is listed on the Blue Chip segment of the Italian Stock Exchange (ISIN code: ordinary shares IT0003039010, saving shares IT0003039028).
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Readers Digest Association (RDA)
Readers Digest is a multi-brand and multi-platform media and direct marketing company that reaches 145 million customers worldwide through a combination of print, digital and DRTV product offerings. Products include magazines, books, music, video, and advertising, with offices in 45 countries and customers in 79 countries.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Reed Elsevier
Elsevier is the world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services. Each year, the Science & Technology arm of Elsevier publishes 240,000 new research articles through 1,250 journals. Elsevier’s Health & Science unit distributes over 700 journals and 1,500 new health science titles, in print and electronically. Reed Elsevier Group is a UK registered company and is equally owned by two parent companies, Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Pearson Plc
Pearson is the world’s leading learning company with 41,000 employees in 70 countries, and a strong consumer publishing arm with Penguin as the main brand, publishing over 4000 fiction and non-fiction books each year, as well as the Financial Times newspaper (which is not included in this ranking). “For more than a decade now, Pearson’s strategy has revolved around our commitment to become the leading global learning company.” (AR 2012)
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Perseus Book Group
Founded in 1996 by venture capitalist Frank Pearl, the Perseus Book Group “is an independent company committed to enabling independent publishers to reach their potential whether those publishers are Perseus-owned, joint ventures or owned by third parties.” (Company statement)
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Média Participations
The Belgium-French group Média Participations is the largest publisher of comic books in Europe. Sixty percent of the company's new titles each year are bandes dessinées, or comics, which account for sales of 20 million from an overall 32 million. 2010 has seen modest growth from the continuous exploitation of the previously acquired stocks, as well as strategic investments in digital in-house developments.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press, a department of the University of Oxford, has a remarkably diverse publishing program that reaches far beyond traditional university presses. OUP publishes in more than 40 languages under a variety of print and digital formats that cover an extremely broad academic and educational spectrum. OUP's list is aimed at all audiences, from pre-school to secondary level schoolchildren; students to academics; general readers to researchers; and individuals to institutions.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: The Mondadori Group
The Mondadori Group is the leading book publisher in Italy and the third largest player in the consumer magazine segment in France. Mondadori operates through publishing houses such as Edizioni Mondadori, Einaudi, Piemme, Sperling & Kupfer, and Electa. Its magazine titles include Panorama and Donna moderna.
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