Macmillan Publishers
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| Parent company | Holtzbrinck Publishing Group |
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| Founded | 1843 |
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | New York, United States London, United Kingdom |
| Key people | Jon Yaged (CEO, USA)[1] Joanna Prior (CEO, UK)[2] |
| Publication types | Books |
| Revenue | $1.4 billion[3] |
| Official website | macmillan |
Macmillan Publishers (Pan Macmillan in the UK and Macmillan Publishers in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the "Big Five" English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).
Founded in London in 1843 by Scottish brothers Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, the firm soon established itself as a leading publisher in Britain. It published two of the best-known works of Victorian-era children's literature, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894).[4][5]
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Harold Macmillan, grandson of co-founder Daniel, was chairman of the company from 1964 until his death in December 1986.
Since 1999, Pan Macmillan and Macmillan Publishers have been wholly owned subsidiaries of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group with offices in 41 countries worldwide and operations in more than thirty others.
- ^ Brown, Lauren (3 May 2022). "Yaged named chief executive of Macmillan as Weisberg steps aside". The Bookseller.
- ^ Anderson, Porter (30 September 2021). "Joanna Prior Succeeds Anthony Forbes Watson as Pan Macmillan CEO". Publishing Perspectives.
- ^ "The Largest Book Publishers in 2021". Retrieved 22 June 2021.
- ^ Jaques, Zoe; Giddens, Eugene (6 May 2016). Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: A Publishing History. Routledge. p. 16. doi:10.4324/9781315592275. ISBN 978-1-317-10552-7.
- ^ "The Macmillan Jungle Book Colouring Book Free Monkey Pattern Download". WH Smith. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2022.