Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026

Top 25 British publishing houses worldwide

RevenueBase identified 986 british publishing houses worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 49,635 professional contacts across them, including 11,176 with verified work emails. The United Kingdom is the largest market and London the largest hub.

This list covers british publishing houses worldwide, 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. Country and city lists for british publishing houses follow the table.

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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The 25 largest british publishing houses worldwide

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 986 british publishing houses worldwide, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to british publishing houses: 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 evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202610001+7,263 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Our mission is to ignite a universal passion for reading by creating books for everyone.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Indirect evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0003,477 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Indirect evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0002,248 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We deeply believe in the power of books to connect people, amplify diverse voices, create meaningful change, and make a lasting impact in the world.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Partial evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0002,079 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Simon & Schuster is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, providing consumers worldwide with a diverse range of quality books across a wide variety of…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0001,803 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are Penguin Random House UK: part of the world's leading trade publisher, Penguin Random House.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Indirect evidenceJakarta, IndonesiaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0001,398 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Berdiri pada 30 April 1952, Erlangga Group pada mulanya hanya menerbitkan buku-buku pelajaran saja.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0001,364 contacts →

Partial evidence

“DK is a global publisher of internationally bestselling authors and illustrators across fiction, non-fiction, adult and children’s publishing.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,0001,037 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Indirect evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500877 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“W.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500768 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Usborne is the largest and most successful independent children's book publisher in the UK.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500595 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Harlequin is one of the world's leading publishers of books for women.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000593 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Founded in 1846, we’re the second-biggest publishing group in the UK - part of Hachette Livre - with 12 divisions and over 50 imprints.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Strong evidenceNoida, IndiaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500479 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Orient BlackSwan (formerly Orient Longman), is an Indian publishing house headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Indirect evidenceOslo, NorwayHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500421 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Cappelen Damm har omlag nye utgivelser årlig.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500403 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Les Éditions Albin Michel sont une maison d’édition française fondée en 1900.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Indirect evidenceRozzano, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500373 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Editoriale Domus was founded in Milan by Gianni Mazzocchi in 1929.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Indirect evidenceQuezon City, PhilippinesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000372 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Partial evidenceMilan, ItalyHQ checked Sep 19, 202610001+345 contacts →

Partial evidence

“De Agostini Editore S.p.A, 100% owned by De Agostini S.p.A, is responsible for the co-ordination and strategic management of all the Group’s operating companies in the publishing…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500344 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Quarto Group (LSE: QRT) is the leading global illustrated book publisher.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Indirect evidenceBarcelona, SpainHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500330 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“RBA is an independent communications group, multichannel and 100% Spanish-owned.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Indirect evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500321 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“St.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Indirect evidenceRio De Janeiro, BrazilHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500305 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Há mais de oito décadas o Grupo Ediouro Publicações se dedica a editar, publicar e disseminar informação, entretenimento e cultura, produzindo e distribuindo conteúdo em…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Partial evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500288 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Penguin Random House Canada, the country’s largest book publisher, aims to nourish a universal passion for reading by connecting authors and their writing with readers everywhere.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Strong evidenceMalakoff, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200283 contacts →

Strong evidence

“DUNOD, publishers of knowledges, is one of the most famous French publishing houses (for the Academy of Science in 1793) and publishes more than titles for the academics, the…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Indirect evidenceTulsa, OK, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200271 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Educational Development Corporation (EDC) likes being in a bind, as long as the cover appeals to youngsters.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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British publishing houses worldwide at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
22.5%Verified-email coverage
50.3Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
5.4%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
516
11-50
242
51-200
130
201-500
49
501-1,000
13
1,001-5,000
17
5,001-10,000
1
10001+
5

Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.

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 british publishing houses, 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.
Coverage
Every country. Country and city lists for british publishing houses are linked below.
What qualifies
Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “british publishing houses”. 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 british publishing houses), 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 british publishing houses, and records with no verified work email.
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, 11,176 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
Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

British publishing houses by location

8 lists · largest first

Every British publishing houses list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.

Countries

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 british publishing houses, 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 british publishing houses are there worldwide?

RevenueBase identified 986 british publishing houses worldwide 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?

Penguin Random House, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which country has the most british publishing houses?

The United Kingdom leads with 130 companies, followed by the United States (115) and Brazil (66). Every british publishing houses list by country and city is linked on this page.

Which city has the most british publishing houses?

London leads with 53 headquartered companies, followed by Sao Paulo (28) and New York (24).

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 11,176 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 986 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.