Company Profile
Springer Healthcare
Company Overview
Springer Nature is a leading global research, educational and professional publisher, home to an array of respected and trusted brands providing quality content through a range of innovative products and services.
Springer Nature is the world’s largest academic book publisher, publisher of the world’s highest impact journals and a pioneer in the field of open research. The company numbers almost 13,000 staff in over 50 countries and has a turnover of approximately EUR 1.5 billion. Springer Nature was formed in 2015 through the merger of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan Education and Springer Science+Business Media.
Company History
More than 165 years of publishing
On 10 May 1842 (his 25th birthday), Julius Springer founded what is now Springer Science+Business Media in Berlin. Of course, the modern Springer is very different from the company that Julius Springer founded and there are parts of Springer (e.g. Vieweg and Bohn Stafleu van Loghum) that were founded even before 1842.
The first of Julius Springer’s ventures was a bookstore in Berlin, quickly followed by the publishing house. A. E. Kluwer, the other “father” of the present day company (BertelsmannSpringer and Kluwer Academic Publishers merged in 2004) also founded his publishing house in the 19th Century in the Netherlands.
After the founding of the Vienna office in 1924, Springer opened another branch in New York in 1964, followed by counterparts in Tokyo, London, Paris and Hong Kong shortly thereafter. The company quickly became one of the world’s leading scientific publishers.
In 1999, Bertelsmann acquired a majority share in Springer-Verlag. In 2003, the British financial investors Cinven and Candover acquired Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) and BertelsmannSpringer, which were merged in 2004.
Healthy organic growth and recent acquisitions, the embrace of technological advances (i.e. ePublishing) and its dedicated employees provide the basis for sustainable service to the global scientific and professional community.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Key Facts
- The world’s second-largest publisher of journals in the STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) sector, the largest publisher of STM books, and the largest business-to-business publisher in the German-language area
- Around 60 publishing houses in about 20 countries in Europe, Asia and the USA
- Consolidated sales: EUR 906 million in 2007; about EUR 920 million in 2006, including EUR 77 million revenue from B2B Construction publishing activities, divested in April 2007
- Approximately 5,000 employees around the world
- New Springer eBook Collection with more than 25,000 titles available on www.springerlink.com
- Product range across all media for high-quality content (books, journals, newsletters, CD-ROMs, databases, online services, organization of seminars and conferences)
- Over 1,700 journals and more than 5,500 new book titles every year; backlist of more than 40,000 titles
- 6 main publishing fields: science, medicine, business, technology, architecture, and transport
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package to include:
• Medical / Dental / Vision
• Life / AD&D
• STD / LTD
• 401(k)
• Flexible Spending Account
• Transit / Parking Account
• Tuition Assistance
• Summer Hours