38 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ OCTOBER 14, 2019
2018 2017 PUBLISHING GROUP 2018 2017
RANK RANK OR DIVISION PARENT COMPANY COUNTRY REVENUE REVENUE30 25 Egmont Group Egmont International Denmark $657 $661
Holding A/S31 30 Groupe Madrigall Madrigall France $657 $516
32 26 Bonnier The Bonnier Group Sweden $651 $650
33 - China Publishing Group China Publishing and Media China $638 $606
Holdings Co. Ltd.34 33 Media Participations Media Participations Belgium $627 $412
35 29 Les Editions Lefebvre-Sarrut Frojal France $581 $538
36 28 Woongjin ThinkBig Woongjin Holding South Korea $576 $584
37 31 Messagerie/GeMS Messagerie Italiane Italy $519 $485
38 27 Mondadori The Mondadori Group Italy $515 $632
39 32 Somos Educação Somos Brazil $482 $418
40 34 Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press U.K. $401 $412
41 38 Haufe Gruppe Privately owned Germany $371 $356
42 36 Sanoma Sanoma WSOY Finland $358 $382
43 35 Eksmo-AST Privately owned Russia $351 $387
44 37 Westermann Verlagsgruppe Medien Union Germany $343 $359
45 – China Science Publishing China Science Publishing China $325 $304
& Media & Media Ltd.46 40 Cornelsen Cornelsen Germany $291 $310
47 44 C.H. Beck Verlag C.H. Beck Germany $287 $235
48 42 Gakken Co. Gakken Co. Ltd. Japan $273 $279
49 39 Prosveshcheniye Privately owned Cyprus $265 $343
50 41 WEKA WEKA Firmengruppe Germany $230 $288
51 46 Groupe Albin Michel Groupe Albin Michel France $230 $229
52 51 Bloomsbury Bloomsbury Publishing PLC U.K. $206 $216
53 47 Bungeishunju Ltd. Bungeishunju Ltd. Japan $197 $212
54 52 Shinchosha Publishing Shinchosa Publishing Co. Ltd. Japan $188 $177
55 50 Thieme Georg Thieme Verlag KG Germany $185 –
56 49 Editora FTD Editora FTD Brazil $171 $199
TOP PUBLISHERS WORLDWIDE BY REVENUE, 2018
Note: Figures are based on sales generated in each calendar year or, for companies that report based on fiscal years, in each fiscal year. Companies must have
annual sales of at least $150 million to be included. Data is from publicly available sources or from individual companies and includes sales of books, journals,
professional information, and digital products. Pannini and Disney are excluded from the ranking because they don’t report separate data for their publishing
divisions. For Kyowon Co. revenue for 2018 includes sales from two divisions where data had not been previously available: Kyowon Creative and Kyowon Kumon are
now included along with the company’s educational publishing arm. Revenue for those other divisions have not been broken out for 2017, however. The listing was
compiled by international publishing consultant Ruediger Wischenbart under the aegis of Livres Hebdo.Source: Livres Hebdo