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Pan Macmillan

Our offices are located at:
Pan Macmillan Limited
20 New Wharf Road
London
N1 9RR

Tel: +44 (0)20 7014 6000
Fax: +44 (0)20 7014 6001

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A little about The Company

Pan Macmillan is part of the Macmillan Group. Macmillan is known for its high-quality academic and scholarly, educational, fiction and non-fiction and reference publishing. In the UK its divisions include Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan Education, Macmillan Distribution and the Nature Publishing Group. Visit www.macmillan.com for more information on the Macmillan Group.

Macmillan is a privately-owned company, owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, a large German-based company. The company acquired a 70.81 per cent stake in Macmillan in April 1995, and purchased the remaining stake in 1999, at which point the Macmillan family formally ended its 156-year-ownership of the publishing house. Holtzbrinck owns around forty companies as well as Macmillan and is headquartered in Stuttgart. Its interests include book, magazine and newspaper publishers, television and radio companies and new media firms.

Pan Macmillan is a trading division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd:

Macmillan Publishers Limited
Registered and incorporated in England and Wales under Company Number: 785998
Registered Office:
Brunel Road
Houndmills
Basingstoke
Hants RG21 6XS
England

How it all Began

Macmillan was founded in 1843 by Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two brothers from the Scottish Isle of Arran. Daniel was the business brain, while Alexander laid the literary foundations, publishing such great authors as Charles Kingsley, Thomas Hughes, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and H. G. Wells. As the company evolved, the Macmillan family's vision continued to inspire the publishing of major writers including W. B. Yeats, Sean O'Casey, John Maynard Keynes, Charles Morgan, Hugh Walpole, Margaret Mitchell, C. P. Snow and Rumer Godden.

The brothers' publishing talents were not confined to literature. Their vision led to the creation of enduring copyrights such as Nature (1869), the renowned Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1877) and Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy (1899).

An ambitious expansion programme was initiated in the late 1960s when Harold Macmillan retired from politics after his term as prime minister and became chairman of the company. Serious academic, educational and literary publishing was followed by significant growth in reference programmes and college textbooks as well as educational and scientific journals. New international opportunities were grasped and publishing operations were set up in Japan, Mexico and the emerging markets of Africa and Asia.

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

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