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With a heritage stretching back nearly 200 years, HarperCollins is one
of the world's foremost English-language publishers, offering the best
quality content right across the spectrum, from cutting-edge
contemporary fiction to digital hymnbooks and pretty much everything in
between.
In the UK, the Glasgow-based William Collins & Sons was founded in
1819 and published a range of bibles, atlases and dictionaries, later
including classic authors HG Wells, Agatha Christie, JRR Tolkien and CS
Lewis.
The original Harper Brothers Company was established in New York City in
1817 and over the years published the works of Mark Twain, the Bronte
Sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1987, Harper & Row, as it had then become, was acquired by News
Corporation. The worldwide group was formed following News Corp's 1990
acquisition of William Collins & Sons.
Today we publish some of the world's foremost authors, from Nobel
prize-winners to worldwide bestsellers; recent successes including the
Booker-winning Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary
Mantel, and George RR Martin's blockbusting A Song of Ice and Fire series.
Our thriving children's business includes evergreen popular properties
Paddington Bear and Dr Seuss, while Michael Morpurgo, David Walliams,
Oliver Jeffers, Derek Landy and Louise Rennison continue to delight
children and young adults everywhere.
HarperCollins is at the forefront of creative innovation in what we
publish and how we publish. We were the first trade publisher to
digitise its content and create a global digital warehouse to protect
the rights of its authors, meet consumer demand and generate additional
business opportunities.
And alongside digital developments, acting and thinking "green" is
in
our DNA; we publish 60% of our books on environmentally-friendly paper.
This is one of the biggest proportions among our major competitors in
the UK. We were the first to take our operations carbon neutral and all
our electricity is harnessed from renewable sources.
In 2012 HarperCollins won the prestigious Publisher of the Year Award at
the Bookseller Industry Awards, praised by judges for our innovative
digital activity, sharp focus on authors, and thriving educational
division.
With offices in the US, Canada, the UK, India and Australia,
HarperCollins has global revenues of over $1 billion every year. The
President and CEO of HarperCollins worldwide is Brian Murray.
HarperCollins UK is run by Chief Executive Charlie Redmayne, publishes
around 1000 books a year and employs some 850 people in London and
Glasgow.
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