Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
Parent companyVerlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH
StatusPrivate
Founded1948; 76 years ago (1948)
FounderGeorg von Holtzbrinck
Country of originGermany
Headquarters locationStuttgart, Germany
DistributionWorldwide
Publication typesBooks, Newspapers, Academic journals, Magazines
ImprintsSee below
Owner(s)
  • Monika Schoeller
  • Stefan von Holtzbrinck[1]
Official websiteholtzbrinck.com

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (German: Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck) is a privately held German company headquartered in Stuttgart, that owns publishing companies worldwide. Through Macmillan Publishers, it is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies.

In 2015, it merged most of its Macmillan Science and Education unit (including Nature Publishing Group) with Springer Science+Business Media, creating the company Springer Nature. Holtzbrinck owns 53% of the combined company.[2][3]

  1. ^ Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. "Management". Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  2. ^ Bray, Chad (15 January 2015). "Publisher of Nature and Scientific American to Form Joint Venture". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  3. ^ Carpenter, Caroline (6 May 2015). "Completed merger forms 'Springer Nature'". The Bookseller. Retrieved 14 January 2016.