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Macmillan Iberia at the Madrid Book FairFor the first time ever, Macmillan Iberia participated in the Madrid Book Fair this year, with our own stand. The fair, which took place in the Retiro Park during the first two weeks in June, was launched by HRH Princess Elena, who talked with Macmillan staff at the stand and received some of our books as a gift for her two children.
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Anthony Forbes Watson appointed Managing Director of Pan Macmillan UKAnthony Forbes Watson has been appointed Managing Director of Pan Macmillan UK with immediate effect following a highly successful period as interim manager for the trade publishing company. He will join Macmillan as an Executive Director, reporting directly to Macmillan CEO Annette Thomas.
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Nature Publishing Group launches English language editing service.Nature Publishing Group (NPG) today announces the launch of a new English language editing service, Nature Publishing Group Language Editing (NPG Language Editing).
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Jonathan Wheeldon appointed Chief Financial Officer, Macmillan Publishers Ltd
Jonathan Wheeldon has been appointed into the newly-created post of Chief Financial Officer, Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
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Macmillan Group In Mexico Is New Market Leader In Government SecondaryEach year, the Ministry of Education purchases approximately 27 million textbooks for distribution to junior secondary level students throughout the country. Teachers are invited to select the book of their choice from almost 240 titles from 20 publishers.
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Operations Director
I am pleased to tell you that Lawrence Jennings, a former Managing Director of Macmillan Distribution Ltd, will be re-joining Macmillan as
Operations Director, reporting to me, with effect from May 6. Dave Smith (Managing Director of MDL) and Andrew May-Miller (Group IT Director) will report to Lawrence.
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Nature Publishing Group announces six new publishing initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased to announce five new co-publishing agreements for 2009 in Japan and China and the launch of the
NPG Asia Materials website with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, one of Japan’s leading universities.
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Nature.com nominated for “Oscars of the Internet”
Nature Publishing Group’s website, www.nature.com, is one of five websites shortlisted for Best
Science Website of 2008 in the 12th Annual Webby Awards.
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Tania Hummel appointed Group Personnel Director for Macmillan
Tania Hummel is to become Group Personnel Director with immediate effect, replacing James Richardson, who was recently promoted to Director of Corporate Social Responsibility.
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Margaret Halton appointed Rights Director for the adult division of Pan Macmillan
Margaret Halton is to join Pan Macmillan as Rights Director for its adult publishing division. Margaret brings to the company an enormous
breadth and depth of publishing experience. She joined ICM in 2000 as Foreign Rights Director in the New York office, and then relocated
to London to co-run the newly formed London office with Kate Jones from 2003 until the merger with Curtis Brown. Before that, she was
Rights Director at Fourth Estate and she previously held posts at Granta, Faber and Harper Collins.
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Macmillan Publishers Ltd are holding a party for Chris Paterson at the time of the London Book Fair, to celebrate his 37 years with Macmillan.
In thirty seven years, Chris served in leadership positions in the U.K. in Pan Macmillan, Nature, The Macmillan Press, and recently in
Macmillan Education. His main contribution was in international publishing, particularly to our worldwide growth in education and to the
making of our leading positions in Southern Africa and China.
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Anthony Forbes Watson appointed interim Managing Director of Pan Macmillan.
Anthony Forbes Watson will join Pan Macmillan on 1 May as Managing Director on an interim basis following the departure of David North,
who will be leaving the company on 11 April.
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David North to leave Macmillan after eight years
David North is to depart his post as Managing Director of Pan Macmillan after eight years with the company.
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Nature Publishing Group launches Nature India
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) today announces the launch of Nature India (www.nature.com/natureindia), a new website highlighting the best scientific research from researchers based in India. To celebrate the launch NPG is hosting a reception this evening at the British High Commission in Delhi.
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