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Top 25 Publishing companies based in London, United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 347 publishing companies headquartered in London, United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 13,018 professional contacts across them, including 3,269 with verified work emails and 1,224 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.
This list covers publishing companies headquartered in London, United Kingdom, 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 13, 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 publishing companies based in London, United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 1,803 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Penguin Random House UK: part of the world's leading trade publisher, Penguin Random House.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,364 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,037 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 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 768 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Usborne is the largest and most successful independent children's book publisher in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 593 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 553 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Time Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 344 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Quarto Group (LSE: QRT) is the leading global illustrated book publisher.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 307 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Reedsy is a community of over 5 million authors and publishing professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 265 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We publish for everyone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hodder & Stoughton is a major publisher within Hachette UK, one of the UK’s biggest publishing groups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Faber is one of the world’s great independent publishing houses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Daily Mail, Metro, The i Paper, New Scientist, and more; every day, millions come to our platforms to read, watch, listen, share and discover.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Home to books for all ages, Walker Books publishes many award-winning authors, illustrators, and literary franchises including Anthony Horowitz, Angie Thomas, Cassandra Clare…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “StoryTerrace is a publishing-tech scale-up with 30+ employees and a pool of over 600 vetted freelancers in Europe and the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Twice winner of the KPMG publisher of the year award, and with a string of top sellers in each season, Little, Brown Book Group has a proven history of success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 137 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hachette Children’s Group is one of the largest children’s publishers in the UK, with an excellent track record in creating bestselling and award-winning books for children.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are part of global publisher Simon & Schuster.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Celebrating 100 years of creativity Phaidon is the premier global publisher of the creative arts with over 1,500 titles in print.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The #1 Magazine Distributor for Independent Publishers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wonderbly is the world's leading personalised publishing company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Octopus is a leading publisher of non-fiction books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Little Tiger is a creatively-led publisher of engaging and inspiring books for children and young people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seymour is part of the Frontline Group (a joint venture between Bauer, Immediate Media Company and Haymarket Publications).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Profile Books was founded in 1996 to publish stimulating non-fiction in a wide range of fields, including history and current affairs, business and economics, science and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Olympia Publishers is an independent book publishing house based in London, publishing talented authors from across the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 13, 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: publishing companies. 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 publishing companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of publishing companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name publishing companies. 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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Publishing companies based in London, United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 13, 2026Companies by employee count
Freshness & accuracy
How recently the business emails were verified and the company information checked
Email last verified
Median 15.0dCompany record updated
Median 77.0dHow 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 publishing companies, 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 London, United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “publishing companies”. 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 publishing companies), 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 publishing companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside London 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, 3,269 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 13, 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.
Publishing companies by metro in the United Kingdom
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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 publishing companies, 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 publishing companies are there based in London, United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 347 publishing companies headquartered in London, United Kingdom 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 UK, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most publishing companies?
London leads with 347 headquartered companies, followed by Edinburgh (20) and Glasgow (16).
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 3,269 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 347 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 13, 2026.
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