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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Les Editions Lefebvre Sarrut
Les Editions Lefebvre Sarrut is the result of a merger between Editions Francis Lefebvre and Editions Législatives in 1999, with a focus on publishing, professional education, and database integration. Editions Lefebvre Sarrut (as well as Formation Francis Lefebvre) specializes in tax, law, accountability, and social publishing, addressing the requirements and professional ethics for corporations and their international branches. It includes the main French Academic Law publisher, Dalloz, bought from Hachette in 2005.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Informa Plc
Informa is a professional information provider, with a focus on academic and professional publishing as well as informational events. Informa has 150 offices in 40 countries.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Kyowon Co. Ltd.
Kyowon, founded in 1985, is one of the biggest publishing companies in Korea. They have a high reputation for educational books, especially for prenatal, baby, toddler, and pre-school topics.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Kabushiki-gaisha Kōdansha (Kodansha Limited)
Kodansha was started by Seiji Noma in 1909 as a spin-off of the Dai-Nippon Yūbenkai (Greater Japan Oratorical Society). Its first publication was the literary magazine Yūben. The name Kodansha (taken from Kōdan Club, a now defunct magazine published by the company) was first used in 1911 when the publisher formally merged with the Dai-Nippon Yūbenkai. The company's current legal name has been in use since 1958. Its motto is "Omoshirokute tame ni naru" (To be interesting and beneficial).
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Klett
Klett Group is a private German educational resource company, which operates 59 subsidiaries at 40 locations in 17 countries. The portfolio comprises traditional textbooks, digital interactive learning solutions, professional literature, and fiction.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. (Kabushiki-gaisha Kadokawa Shoten)
The Kadokawa Group, which aims to become a "Mega Software Publisher," is moving beyond its existing publishing business to achieve sustainable growth in film and software (which includes websites and mobile sites), and by developing business overseas with an emphasis on Asia.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Holtzbrinck Group
Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH publishing group is a family-owned company headquartered in Germany. It publishes both print and electronic media in more than 80 countries, and serves educational, professional, and general readership markets.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
HMH is one of the world’s largest providers of educational products and solutions for pre-K–12 learning. Ninety percent of the company's revenu with 90% of revenue from education, with the remaining 10% from reference and trade. HMH is an innovator in the digital school-home market, offering blended and all-digital offerings such as HMH Fuse™, Write Source®, Singapore Math, Bar Models, and SkillsTutor, which help assess, extend and enhance classroom learning.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Haufe-Lexware
Haufe-Lexware is a German media group operating in business, law, and tax. The company was founded as Rudolf Haufe Verlag in 1934 in Berlin
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: HarperCollins
HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corporation, a diversified global media company with operations in cable network programming, film, television, direct broadcast satellite television, and publishing. Beside HarperCollins Publishing, the publishing division includes newspapers such as the New York Post; the Wall Street Journal and related publications in the U.S., Europe and Asia; and Dow Jones and its information services business. HarperCollins is one of the world’s largest English language book publishers. HarperCollins includes HarperCollins Publishers LLC (“HarperCollins U.S.,” headquartered in New York), HarperCollins Publishers Limited (London), and The Zondervan Corporation LLC (Michigan).
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Harlequin
Harlequin, a publisher of books for women, is wholly-owned by Torstar Corporation, a media and book publishing company. Harlequin comprises several imprints including MIRA, HQN, LUNA, Kimani Press and Carina Press. Publishing operations are divided in two divisions: North America and Overseas. In 2011, Harlequin published books in34 languages in 114 markets.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: GeMS Gruppo editorial Mauri Spagnol
Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol is a privately held publishing group and the third largest publisher in Italy. It controls 9 publishing houses: Corbaccio, Garzanti Libri, Guanda, Longanesi, Nord, Ponte alle Grazie, Salani, TEA, Vallardi, as well as ProLibro, and holds 50% of Superpocket. It launched Duomo Ediciones in Barcelona, Spain, in 2008.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Groupe Gallimard
Founded in 1911 by Gaston Gallimard, the grandfather of today’s president and CEO Antoine Gallimard, as Les Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF), Gallimard has been home to many of the most prestigious writers in French literature throughout the 20th century, including Marcel Proust, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and 2008 Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. The centenary of Gallimard’s creation has been widely celebrated with numerous publications and exhibitions in 2010 - 2011. In these 100 years, the most popular authors ever published by Gallimard had been Albert Camus (with 29 million copies, including 10 million for L’Etranger (The Stranger), Antoine de Staint Exupery (26,3 m copies, including 13 millio of Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince), and J.K. Rowling (26 million copies for the seven volumes of Harry Potter).
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Gakken
Gakken Holdings Co., Ltd. is a publisher of books and magazines with a specific focus on illustrated and pictorial books and drill books. Gakken also develops educational materials for the Japanese school market, notably the preparatory and children markets, and has a stake in the general and daily living markets.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: FTD Editora
FTD is a publishing company that specializes in educational material. They are based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and were founded in 1902 to support schools run by the Maristas Brothers.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Eksmo
Eksmo is one of the largest general interest publishing houses in Russia. Established in 1991 as a small book-selling company, they gradually became a major player on the Russian market. Eksmo portfolio includes books of fiction and non-fiction, books for children and young adults, reference and educational publications.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Egmont
Egmont is one of Scandinavia’s leading media companies, covering magazines, books, films, cineplexes, TV, comic books, textbooks, online communities, games, and game consoles.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: De Agostini S.p.A.
Italy’s De Agostini S.p.A. is a family-owned international group controlled by B&D Holding. The holding company is organized as a financial conglomerate that operates in publishing, gaming, media and communications, and the financial sector. The sub-holding firm De Agostini Editore is present in 30 countries.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Cornelsen
The German Franz Cornelsen Bildungsgruppe (Franz Cornelsen Education Group) is a provider of learning services. The group creates and distributes educational materials for a market which extends from pre-school education to vocational training.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Cengage Learning
Cengage Learning is present in six educational markets: academic, career, school, research, professional, and international. Operations are divided into two businesses: Domestic and International. Domestic concentrates on the US, where educational solutions are provided for the academic, career, school, and professional markets. Adaptations of these domestic products are distributed in over 110 countries by Cengages’s International operations.
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