Major Publishers with North American Holdings
A Who Owns Whom Guide to the Book Publishing Industry

 

Georg von Holtzbrinck (Germany)

 
* Macmillan (USA) (name changed from Holtzbrinck Publishers 2007)
* Henry Holt
* Metropolitan Books
* Times Books (licensed by New York Times 2000)
* Owl Books
* Roaring Brook Press (acq. from Millbrook Press 2004)
* Kingfisher (acq. from Houghton Mifflin 2007)
* 01 First Second (formed 2005)
* St. Martin's Press
* Griffin (formed 1995)
* LA Weekly Books
* Golden Adult Group (acq. from Golden Books 1999)
* Priddy Bicknell
* St. Martin's/New York Times (licensed by New York Times 2000)
* Let's Go (acq. by St. Martin's 1982) (founded 1960)
* Tor
* Starscape (formed 2002)
* Tor Teen (formed 2003)
* Picador USA (formed 1995)
* Feiwel & Friends (formed 2006)
* Square Fish (formed 2007)
* Forge
* Farrar, Straus & Giroux (acq. by Von Holtzbrink 1994) (name changed to Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1964) (name changed to Farrar, Straus 1963) (name changed to Farrar, Straus & Cudahy 1955) (name changed to Farrar, Straus & Young 1950) (Farrar, Straus founded 1946)
* Hill and Wang (acq. by Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1971)
* North Point Press (acq. by Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1992)
* Faber & Faber (USA) (acq. by Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1998)
* Sarah Crichton Books (formed 2004)
* Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers
* Melanie Kroupa Books (moved from Dorling Kindersley 2000)
* Frances Foster Books
* Renaissance Media (acq. 2001)
* Macmillan Audio (name changed from Audio Renaissance 2007) (acq. 2001)
* Palgrave Macmillan (US & UK) (formed 2000)
* Grove
* College Group
* Bedford/St. Martin's
* Bedford, Freeman & Worth
* W.H. Freeman
* Worth Publishers
* Macmillan Ltd. (UK) (acq. 1995)
* Macmillan
* Pan
* Picador
* Boxtree
* Channel Four
* Macmillan Children's Books
* Young Picador (formed 2002)
* Priddy Books
* Kingfisher Publishing (acq. from Houghton Mifflin 2007)
* Fischer Verlage (Germany)
* S. Fischer (founded 1886)
* Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
* Alexander Fest Verlag (founded 1997)
* Argon Verlag
* Nicolai Verlag
* Wolfgang Kruger Verlag
* Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch (Germany) (founded 1949)
* Coron Verlag (Switzerland)
* Rowohlt Verlage (Germany)
* Kindler Verlag
* Verlagsgruppe Droemer Weltbild (Germany)
* Droemer Knaur
* Lichtenberg Verlag (founded 1963)
* Scherz Verlag (founded 1938)
* O.W. Barth (acq. 1973) (founded 1924)
* Fretz & Wasmuth
* Schneekluth Verlag (founded 1949)
* Der Pattloch Verlag (acq. by Weltbild 1987) (founded 1946)
* Weltbild-Ratgeber-Verlage
* Augustus Verlag
* Battenberg Verlag
* Midena Verlag
* Steiger Verlag
* J.B. Metzler (Germany) (founded 1682)
* Verlag Hermann Bohlaus Nachfolger Weimar (acq. 1998) (founded 1624)
* Verlag Moritz Diesterweg (Germany) (acq. 1995) (founded 1860)
* Schroedel Verlage (Germany)
* Metzler Schulbuchverlag
* Spectra
* Logo
* Hoverlag (Germany) (partial stake acq. 2002)
* Audible.de (Germany) (formed 2004) (24.5% stake; 24.5% owned by Verlagsgruppe Random House; 51% owned by Audible)
* Editorial Macmillan de Mexico (Mexico) (formed 1982)
* Ediciones Castillo (Mexico) (acq. 2004) (founded 1977)
* Pan Macmillan (Australia)
* Picador
* Macmillan Education
* Palgrave Macmillan

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Previous Holdings

Hanley and Belfus (sold to Reed Elsevier 2002)
Urban & Fischer (Germany) (1999 merger of Gustav Fischer and Urban & Schwarzenberg) (sold to
     Reed Elsevier 2002)
Urban & Partner (Poland) (sold to Reed Elsevier 2002)
Rothacker (Germany) (sold to Reed Elsevier 2002)
Servicecenter Fachverlage (Germany) (sold to Reed Elsevier 2002)
Spectrum Akademischer Verlag (Germany) (sold to Reed Elsevier 2002)
Das Bildungshaus (sold to Watermann Group 2002)
Whitman (sold by St. Martin's Press to H.E. Harris 2003)
 

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