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Macmillan
Overview
The Macmillan Publishing Group is owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von
Holtzbrinck GmbH headquartered in Stuttgart. Macmillan Publishers Ltd is one of the
largest and best-known international publishing groups in the world characterized by
high-quality academic and scholarly, educational, fiction and non-fiction publishing in
many forms - from STM and social science journals, through serious non-fiction and
literary fiction, to educational course materials and dictionaries and college textbooks,
academic monographs and reference with supporting online resource sites. The
Macmillan Publishing Group’s portfolio is built upon five key areas: Fiction and non-
fiction book publishing; Education and training publishing; Science, technical and
medical publishing; Academic and business publishing; and Outsourced publishing
services .
Macmillan Education Macmillan Education is one of the world's leading publishers of
English Language teaching and school curriculum materials. Macmillan Education works
with teachers, students, institutions, educational authorities and Ministries of Education
to develop high quality course books and supplementary materials to suit the needs of
teachers and students of all levels. Some of the operating divisions that form the
Macmillan Education Group today are Grupo Macmillan – the largest publisher of ELT
materials in Latin America, Macmillan Education Oxford, Macmillan India,
Macmillan South Africa, Macmillan English Campus, Macmillan Production Asia
etc. The company leverages its strength of having offices and publishing centers in Latin
America, Spain, Poland, the Middle East, East Asia and China to understand the
special features of local curricula and school leaving exams with teams of publishers
and editors on the ground, ready to listen to teachers' comments and feed that in to the
materials they produce. The regional publishing units have an exhaustive publishing plan
for the whole school cycle from 2-18 years old, supported by digital components and
expert teacher training.
Macmillan Education works with third-party distributors by offering a range of
services through Macmillan Distribution Limited (MDL), Macmillan Publishing Group’s
award-winning distribution company. This includes ‘on demand’ online ordering through
its PubEasy system and delivery worldwide.
Macmillan works closely with Ministries of Education to develop appropriate
teaching and learning materials for individual countries. In recent years, Macmillan has
won publishing tenders in Armenia, Bahrain, Egypt, Jamaica, Liberia, Malawi, Palestine
and Saudi Arabia amongst many more. The company also builds partnerships locally, like
the one with AELTA (the Middle East Professional Development Center in Riyadh),
with whom they collaborate in teacher training, professional development as well as
assistance in the development of the language curriculum and materials for the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia.
Contact information:
Macmillan Education web-site: http://www.macmillaneducation.com/
Macmillan UK&International site: http://international.macmillan.com/
Macmillan US site: http://us.macmillan.com/
English language teaching catalog: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/Catalogue.aspx
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