Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Trade publishers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,570 trade publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 43,733 professional contacts across them, including 9,793 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers trade publishers 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 22, 2026. Country and city lists for trade publishers 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.
The 25 largest trade publishers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,079 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,803 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are Penguin Random House UK: part of the world's leading trade publisher, Penguin Random House.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,083 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1978, Sandhills Global serves the trucking, agriculture, construction, heavy machinery, aviation, and technology industries with a diverse range of products and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,068 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WEKA FACHMEDIEN GmbH is a Publishing company located in Richard-Reitzner-Allee 2, Haar, Bavaria, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,043 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Haymarket Media Group is the privately-owned media, data and information company, shaping a better future with remarkable content for specialist audiences across the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,037 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 877 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “W.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 503 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bp 105-83084-3-12” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 479 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Orient BlackSwan (formerly Orient Longman), is an Indian publishing house headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 403 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Les Éditions Albin Michel sont une maison d’édition française fondée en 1900.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 398 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mark Allen is a trusted, family-owned media and information organisation driven by our core values of passion, creativity, fairness, and nurturing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 372 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “KM is an award-winning global B2B information provider with 400+ employees working on around 25 websites, 14 magazine titles and 60 annual events in Canada, Australia, USA, UK…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 366 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “emap is a content, subscription and networking business with offices in East Croydon, City of London, Dublin and Bolton.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 360 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Know more, decide right.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 339 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondata a MIlano nel 1960 Tecniche Nuove è leader nell'editoria specializzata per le attività produttive e professionali: dall'industria meccanica agli impianti, dall'edilizia…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 321 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 288 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 284 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1910, PennWell has embraced a mission of transforming diverse information into practical business intelligence for strategic markets worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 251 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Von der Tradition in die Moderne: Die Schlütersche ist seit über 270 Jahren in der Medienbranche aktiv.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 225 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Charlton Media Group is a leading business information group with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 223 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WTWH Media is a business-to-business media company focused on providing high value unique content on user's terms while delivering measurable ROI for marketers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hodder & Stoughton is a major publisher within Hachette UK, one of the UK’s biggest publishing groups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BizClik is one of the fastest-growing digital media companies in the UK, home to a global portfolio of industry-leading brands and executive communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Faber is one of the world’s great independent publishing houses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “O grupo HarperCollins Brasil chegou ao país em 2015, como parte do segundo maior grupo editorial do mundo, a HarperCollins Publishers, há mais de 200 anos no mercado internacional.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: trade publishers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names trade publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of trade publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name trade publishers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Trade publishers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
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 trade 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for trade publishers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “trade 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 trade 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 trade publishers, 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, 9,793 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 22, 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.
Trade publishers by location
10 lists · largest firstEvery Trade publishers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Trade publishers based in the United States265
- Trade publishers based in the United Kingdom192
- Trade publishers based in Germany123
- Trade publishers based in France70
- Trade publishers based in the Netherlands63
- Trade publishers based in India61
- Trade publishers based in Brazil54
- Trade publishers based in Italy53
- Trade publishers based in Australia49
- Trade publishers based in Canada34
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 trade 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 trade publishers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,570 trade publishers 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?
Simon & Schuster, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most trade publishers?
The United States leads with 265 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (192) and Germany (123). Every trade publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most trade publishers?
London leads with 72 headquartered companies, followed by New York (32) and Sao Paulo (31).
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 9,793 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,570 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 22, 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.