Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
Parent company	Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH
Status	Private
Founded	1948
Founder	Georg von Holtzbrinck
Country of origin	Germany
Headquarters location	Stuttgart, Germany
Distribution	Worldwide
Publication types	Books, Newspapers, Academic journals, Magazines
Imprints	See below
Owner(s)	Monika Schoeller; Stefan von Holtzbrinck;
Official website	holtzbrinck.com

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (German: Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck) is a privately held German company headquartered in Stuttgart, that owns publishing companies worldwide. Through Macmillan Publishers, it is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies.

In 2015, it merged most of its Macmillan Science and Education unit (including Nature Publishing Group) with Springer Science+Business Media, creating the company Springer Nature. Holtzbrinck owns 53% of the combined company.^[2]^[3]

^ Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. "Management". Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
^ Bray, Chad (15 January 2015). "Publisher of Nature and Scientific American to Form Joint Venture". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
^ Carpenter, Caroline (6 May 2015). "Completed merger forms 'Springer Nature'". The Bookseller. Retrieved 14 January 2016.