Top Publishing Companies

At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to add life to a lifetime of learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. That’s why our c.20,000 Pearson employees are committed to creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. We are the world’s leading learning company, serving customers in nearly 200 countries with digital content, assessments, qualifications, and data. For us, learning isn’t just what we do. It’s who we are. Visit us at pearsonplc.com

Elsevier is a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare. We believe that by working together with the communities we serve, we can shape human progress to go further, happen faster, and benefit all. Human progress is no miracle. It is born out of determination, collaboration and the courage to push boundaries, small steps forward that lay the foundations for major leaps ahead.  It happens when every member of the scientific and healthcare communities makes their mark through discovery, learning, innovation, and patient care. For more than 140 years, we’ve helped impact makers advance science and healthcare, thereby driving human progress. This same mission drives us today. Elsevier provides digital solutions and tools in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support, and professional education, including ScienceDirect, Scopus, ClinicalKey, Sherpath and more. Elsevier publishes over 2,500 digitized journals, including The Lancet and Cell, more than 35,000 e-book titles and iconic reference works, including Gray’s Anatomy.

Condé Nast is a global media company that produces some of the world’s leading print, digital, video and social brands. These include Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired and Architectural Digest (AD), Condé Nast Traveler and La Cucina Italiana, among others. Our colleagues and collaborators bring big ideas to life, intelligent storytelling with a diverse point of view underscores all that we do. Each month our video content generates more than 1 billion views. We reach 84 million consumers in print, 366 million in digital and 384 million across social platforms. Headquartered in New York and London, Condé Nast operates in 31 markets including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico and Latin America, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S., with additional license partners throughout the world. In addition to the premium content for which we are known, we also produce incomparable experiences and events; including the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute Gala, the Condé Nast Luxury Conference, The New Yorker Festival, the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, Wired Next Fest Italy, GQ Men of the Year, the GQ Suit Walk Taiwan, Glamour Shopping Week, the Vogue India Wedding Show and Vogue Forces of Fashion. Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE) is our award-winning production and distribution studio that launched in 2011. It extends the company’s reach through the development of original content across film, television, social and digital video and virtual reality. We have ventures in education including the Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design in London, the Condé Nast College in Spain and La Cucina Cooking School in Italy. We also run a world-class hospitality division, which extends to branded products and content. We know that conversation, community and diversity make us better at what we do. Our Social Talent Academy, founded by Condé Nast Italy, fosters and mentors digital influencers with expertise in a range of fields including fashion, beauty, sport, travel and automotive. We inform in new and compelling ways, creating beautiful, visually arresting moments that offer new perspectives, and new forms of self-expression. At Condé Nast, we celebrate the extraordinary. Creativity and imagination are the lifeblood of all that we do. We are a media company for the future, with a remarkable past. We are Condé Nast.

Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 175 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities – enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow.

Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. We’re the UK’s largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. We are located across the UK, with offices in London and Dublin, distribution centres in Colchester and Grantham, and a library and archive in Rushden.

The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. It is part of Nikkei Inc., which provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global business community. We're united by a mission to deliver world-class information, news and services to a discerning global audience. The FT is not just a news organisation. We're journalists, technologists, product managers, event planners, commercial strategists, marketing specialists - and much more.

As a global leader in specialist media, we deliver trusted, expert content across our market-leading brands. From influential websites and magazines to captivating events and social spaces, we stand at the forefront of content creation and audience engagement, all underpinned by innovative technology and powerful data.

Frontiers is a leading research publisher. Our role is to provide the world’s scientists with a rigorous and efficient publishing experience.​ Scientists empower society and our mission is to accelerate collaboration and discovery by making science open – enabling researchers to find the solutions we all need for healthy lives on a healthy planet.​ Powered by custom-built technology, artificial intelligence, and a constructive peer review, our community journals give experts in more than 1,700 academic fields an open access platform to publish high quality, high impact research.​ Through our outreach work to build strong partnerships with business, policymakers, and educators, we’re leading the transition to open science.​

Hearst is one of the nation’s largest diversified media and information companies. Its major interests include ownership of 15 daily and 34 weekly newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and Albany Times Union; hundreds of magazines around the world, including Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, ELLE and O, The Oprah Magazine; 29 television stations, which reach a combined 18 percent of U.S. viewers; ownership in leading cable networks, including Lifetime, A&E, HISTORY and ESPN; significant holdings in automotive, electronic and medical/pharmaceutical business information companies; a majority stake in global ratings agency Fitch Group; Internet and marketing services businesses; television production; newspaper features distribution; and real estate.