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Top 25 Book publishers based in Belgium

RevenueBase identified 97 book publishers headquartered in Belgium as of September 2026 and tracks 1,102 professional contacts across them, including 285 with verified work emails. Antwerpen is the largest hub.

This list covers book publishers headquartered in Belgium, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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97Companies
1,102Contacts tracked
285Verified emails
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The 25 largest book publishers based in Belgium

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 97 book publishers based in Belgium, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to book publishers: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceKalmthout, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200195 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Pelckmans Uitgevers maakt educatieve, algemene en professioneel-wetenschappelijke uitgaven.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Indirect evidenceTielt, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200162 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Uitgeverij Lannoo nv heeft haar succes te danken aan jarenlange ervaring, creativiteit en een hecht team van gedreven medewerkers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Indirect evidenceLouvain-la-neuve, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-50113 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Avec un catalogue de près de titres, plus de 250 nouveautés publiées chaque année, et une équipe de 35 personnes localisée à Louvain-la-Neuve et à Paris, De Boeck Supérieur est…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Indirect evidenceAntwerpen, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20097 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“WPG Uitgevers België is onderdeel van WPG Uitgevers en geeft onderdak aan uitgeverij Manteau, De Bezige Bij Antwerpen en Standaard Uitgeverij.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceGent, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20057 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Mediabedrijf Borgerhoff & Lamberigts werd opgericht in 2005.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Indirect evidenceBruxelles, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5049 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Anthemis est une maison d’édition professionnelle belge de référence, spécialisée en droit, fiscalité, comptabilité, économie, management – RH, et droit médical.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Indirect evidenceLeuven, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5030 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Elk LannooCampus-boek is een betrouwbare bron die duurzame antwoorden levert.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Indirect evidenceAns, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20023 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Strong evidenceSint-amands, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1023 contacts →

Strong evidence

“A publisher of children's books, middle grade, Young Adult, Feelgood and thrillers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Partial evidenceSchaerbeek, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1022 contacts →

Partial evidence

“For more than 32 years now, Caramel has specialized in creating books for children.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Indirect evidenceBruges, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Die Keure is a Belgian family owned and managed company with 80 years of experience in printing and publishing.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Indirect evidenceLouvain-la-neuve, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1018 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Academia est une maison d’édition spécialisée dans les matières universitaires, sciences humaines en tête.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Indirect evidenceEtterbeek, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1016 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Fondation en 1995.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Indirect evidenceGent, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1013 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Academia Press is een onderdeel van Uitgeverij Lannoo.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Strong evidenceOlen, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5012 contacts →

Strong evidence

“As a publisher of children's books, we aim to create books that teach, inspire and amuse children.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Indirect evidenceOudergem, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Depuis 1966, les éditions Mardaga s’appuient sur leur savoir-faire pour offrir au lecteur et à la lectrice des livres reflétant les questions et débats qui animent le monde…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Partial evidenceAntwerpen, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-105 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Today, Hannibal Books is partnered with more than 25 top European museums, including the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Kunstmuseum Den Haag and MSK Gent.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Indirect evidenceOud-turnhout, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-505 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Indirect evidenceAntwerpen, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-504 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Maklu-publicaties bestrijken het hele juridische domein, met een nadruk op het Belgisch, Nederlands en internationaal recht.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Partial evidenceLeuven, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-504 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Peeters Publishers has a rich history dating back to 1857, when it was founded in the vibrant university city of Leuven, Belgium.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Indirect evidenceGeel, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-103 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Ondersteuning van onderwijs en vorming is ónze kernactiviteit" Campinia Media is een academische uitgeverij, in 1983 gegroeid uit de Thomas More Kempen vzw te Geel (voormalige…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Indirect evidenceLeuven, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-103 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Indirect evidenceBrussels, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-103 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“SOCIETE DE DROIT D'AUTEUR DES JOURNALISTES - JOURNALISTEN AUTEURSMAATSCHAPPIJ is a publishing company based out of 21 Rue de la Senne, Bruxelles, Belgium.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Indirect evidenceLeuven, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-102 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We hebben allemaal een stukje van de puzzel dat bijdraagt aan het grotere geheel.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Indirect evidenceLaarne, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Uitgeverij Gandaboeken, de ontbrekende schakel tussen auteur en lezer.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Book publishers based in Belgium at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
25.9%Verified-email coverage
11.4Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
8.2%Largest-city concentration · Antwerpen
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
70
11-50
16
51-200
6
201-500
3
501-1,000
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Belgium, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Belgium, over 97 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among book publishers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Belgium whose own description of what they do matches “book publishers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names book publishers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among book publishers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Belgium are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 285 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names book publishers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many book publishers are there based in Belgium?

RevenueBase identified 97 book publishers headquartered in Belgium as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Pelckmans Uitgevers, headquartered in Kalmthout, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most book publishers?

Antwerpen leads with 8 headquartered companies, followed by Bruxelles (8) and Gent (6).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 285 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 97 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.