a parent springer nature website http www.macmillaneducation.com macmillan education is one of the world s leading publishers of english language teaching and school curriculum materials with over 150 years of publishing experience . clarification needed based in london uk and operating in over 40 countries worldwide . contents 1 history 2 competitors 3 references 4 external links history edit macmillan english dictionary for advanced learners 2nd ed in 1994 simon & schuster acquired the american branch of macmillan publishers . four years later simon & schuster divested its educational division including the remains of macmillan education to pearson plc. 1 on june 30 1999 pearson sold macmillan s reference division to idg for 83 million . 2 until 2015 when it was merged into springer nature macmillan education was a division of macmillan publishers ltd a wholly owned subsidiary of holtzbrinck publishing group . 3 in 2011 macmillan publishers ltd was fined gbp 11.3 million by the high court in london in respect of gains through corruption by macmillan education in east and west africa between 2002 and 2009 . 4 subsequently macmillan education stopped operating in east and west africa . 5 competitors edit macmillan education operates globally and has a range of competitors both on a global basis as well as in each country in which it operates . its main competitors include pearson education a division of pearson oxford university press cambridge university press mcgraw hill education empgi an affiliate of houghton mifflin harcourt and express publishing an independent publisher based in the united kingdom . references edit http www.nytimes.com 1998 07 04 business pearson revises simon schuster deal.html https www.pearson.com news announcements 1999 june pearson sells macmillan general reference for 83m.html springer nature created following merger completion . springer . 6 may 2015 . serious fraud office 2011 the bookseller 2011 external links edit official website v 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