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Springer Nature is an academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education. The company reported revenues of EUR 1.64 billion in 2017 and by their own account publishes around 300,000 articles across almost 3,000 journals and 13,000 books per year.

History
Springer Nature was created in 2015 by the merger of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and Macmillan Education (held by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group) with Springer Science+Business Media (held by BC Partners). Plans for the merger were first announced on 15 January 2015. The transaction was concluded in May 2015 with Holtzbrinck having the majority 53% share.

The company originates from a number of journals and publishing houses, notably Springer-Verlag, which was founded in 1842 by Julius Springer in Berlin, Nature (journal), first published on 4 November 1869 , and Macmillan Education, going back to Macmillan Publishers founded in 1869.

After the merger, former Springer Science+Business Media CEO Derk Haank became CEO of Springer Nature. When he retired by the end of 2017, he was succeeded by Daniel Ropers, the co-founder and long-time CEO of bol.com.

Subsidiaries

 * Adis International
 * Springer Healthcare
 * Springer VS
 * Springer Verlag
 * Springer Gabler
 * Springer Vieweg
 * Springer Medizin
 * Springer Pflege
 * Apress
 * Palgrave Macmillan
 * Macmillan Education
 * Nature Publishing Group
 * BMC
 * Scientific American
 * J. B. Metzler
 * Humana Press
 * Asser Press
 * Bohn Stafleu van Loghum