Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Publishers based in Italy
RevenueBase identified 285 publishers headquartered in Italy as of September 2026 and tracks 5,855 professional contacts across them, including 518 with verified work emails. Roma is the largest hub.
This list covers publishers headquartered in Italy, 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 20, 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.
The 25 largest publishers based in Italy
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 373 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Editoriale Domus was founded in Milan by Gianni Mazzocchi in 1929.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 345 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1900, Legatoria Editoriale Giovanni Olivotto L.E.G.O.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sulle più innovative macchine di stampa e legatoria dei nostri 6 siti produttivi passa di tutto: ci saranno stati anche il libro che hai sul comodino, il fumetto di Diabolik o di…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Giunti Editore, storica casa editrice fiorentina – erede di una lunga tradizione editoriale che ha inizio nel 1841 con la fondazione della tipografia e libreria editrice Paggi – è…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HarperCollins Italia è la divisione italiana di HarperCollins Publishers, una delle più grandi e prestigiose case editrici a livello globale, presente sul mercato da oltre…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Editoria in generale ed in particolare la pubblicazione, produzione e coedizione di libri, cataloghi, periodici, riviste (esclusi i quotidiani) e stampati in genere, la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La casa editrice nasce a Roma nel '94, quando Elido Fazi, rientrato a Roma dopo una lunga permanenza a Londra come manager dell'Economist, decide di dare vita alla sua aspirazione…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Edimill è una società di servizi per l’editoria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Publishing house” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Associazione Italiana Editori è l’associazione di categoria, aderente a Confindustria, degli editori italiani – e di quelli stranieri attivi in Italia – di libri, riviste…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nel cuore di Napoli, proprio di fronte a Port’Alba, storica via dei libri partenopea, si trova la sede centrale della EdiSES: qui i libri si pensano, si progettano e si realizzano…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PDE – Promozione Distribuzione Editoriale nasce nel 1976 e diventa in pochi anni la seconda realtà italiana per la distribuzione editoriale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DUESSE MEDIA NETWORK S.r.l is a company based out of Milan, Lombardy, Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Abbiamo chiuso a giugno 2026 perché la manualistica con prezzi di copertina alti non si vende più.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Graphiservice, sorta nel 1988 come centro di prestampa, all’inizio degli anni Novanta ha inserito al proprio interno un nucleo redazionale di elevata competenza, arricchendo la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Casa editrice Ledizioni nasce nel 2007, ad opera di Eleonora Weihs e di Nicola e Lorenzo Cavalli, rispettivamente figlia e nipoti di Ingo Weihs, attore e colto intellettuale di…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SPORTcom nasce nel 2019 dall’esigenza di coniugare una moderna visione dell’editoria con testate storiche.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L attivita di composizione, produzione, stampa e distribuzione di giornali, di periodici, dei relativi supporti integrativi, di libri, di ogni altro prodotto editoriale - la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Innovative Press è una casa editrice che si pone come obiettivo la creazione e la condivisione di contenuti sui propri media cartacei e online, raccontando i trend evolutivi e le…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Editoria intesa come stampa di libri, enciclopedie, riviste, periodici e giornali con esclusione dei quotidiani (riviste, periodici e giornali sono diffusi all interno dell…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “De Piante Editore pubblica testi rari e inediti della grande letteratura del Novecento.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Density is a young media company founded and owned by the Staff.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GRAFICA - STAMPA - EDITORIA - PACKAGING - PUBBLICITA' Partner qualificato e affidabile nella creazione e produzione di stampati garantito dall'esperienza del nostro team tecnico…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: 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 publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name 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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Publishers based in Italy at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Italy, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Italy, over 285 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 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 Italy whose own description of what they do matches “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 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 publishers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Italy 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, 518 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 20, 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.
Publishers by metro
- Publishers in Roma41
- Publishers in Milano Mi31
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 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 publishers are there based in Italy?
RevenueBase identified 285 publishers headquartered in Italy 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?
Editoriale Domus S.P.A, headquartered in Rozzano, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most publishers?
Roma leads with 41 headquartered companies, followed by Milano Mi (31) and Milano (12).
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 518 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 285 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 20, 2026.
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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.