Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com
Employees: 303
Employee growth: 3.8%

Chronicles of the boy wizard Harry Potter have lent a magical quality to Bloomsbury Publishing's bottom line. J.K. Rowling's mega-successful book series has brought this small publisher to worldwide fame, but Bloomsbury also has other best-selling authors on its list, including Joanna Trollope, John Irving, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Ondaatje. Bloomsbury also publishes non-fiction titles, including "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain, the famous-persons reference title "Who's Who", and the "Whitaker's Almanack", primarily through its A&C Black subsidiary. Bloomsbury is led by co-founder and CEO Nigel Newton. Non-UK operations include Bloomsbury USA and Berlin Verlag (Germany).

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2006:
Sales: $146.4M
One year growth: (22.0%)
Net income: $7.2M
Income growth: (71.6%)

Officers:
Chief Executive: Nigel Newton
Group Finance Director: Colin R. Adams
International Sales Director: Kathleen Farrar

Competitors:
Pearson
Random House
Oxford

Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Type	Book Publisher
Founded	1986
Founder	Nigel Newton
Headquarters	London, England36 Soho Square, London W1D 3QY
Revenue	£100 miliion
Website	http://www.bloomsbury.com/

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is an independent, London-based publishing house known for literary novels. It was named Publisher of the Year in 1999 and 2000. Bloomsbury's growth over the past few years is mainly due to the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling.

The company was founded in 1986 by Nigel Newton, who had previously been employed by other publishing companies. It was floated as a public registered company in 1995, raising £5.5million, which was used to fund expansion of the company into paperback and children's book. A rights issue of shares in 1998 raised a further £6.1m which was used to expand the company, in particular to found an American branch of the company. In 2000 Bloomsbury acquired A&C Black Plc, and in 2002 acquired Whitakers Almanack. This was followed by further acquisitions. In 2007, Bloomsbury published Bloomsbury 21, a reprint series of 21 of its most popular books to celebrate its 21st anniversary.

Imprints

• A & C Black
  • Christopher Helm Publishers
  • Pica Press
  • T & A D Poyser
• Berlin Verlag
• Bloomsbury
• Bloomsbury USA
• Walker & Company

Authors whose work is published

Noted authors published by the company include:

• Margaret Atwood
• Gary Barlow
• John Berger
• TC Boyle
• Benjamin Cheever
• Susanna Clarke
• Nora Ephron
• Carlos Fuentes
• William Goldman
• Nadine Gordimer
• David Halberstam
• Patricia Highsmith
• JT LeRoy
• Jay McInerney
• Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
• Michael Ondaatje
• J. K. Rowling
• Angie Sage
• Edward Said
• Ben Schott
• Hunter S. Thompson
• Lord Whimsy

For a more comprehensive list, see List of authors published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

External links

• Bloomsbury Homepage

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