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| 1 | 1 | # Springer Nature <!--company--> | |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ## Identity <!--identity--> | |
| 4 | 4 | name: Springer Nature | |
| 5 | 5 | disambiguation: German-British academic publishing group formed in 2015; parent of Springer and Apress | |
| 6 | + | summary: Academic publisher in Berlin, listed in Frankfurt since 2024 and majority-owned by the Holtzbrinck group, publisher of Nature, Springer and Palgrave Macmillan. | |
| 7 | + | legal_name: Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA | |
| 8 | + | registered_address: Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin, Germany | |
| 9 | + | wikidata: Q21096327 | |
| 6 | 10 | country: DE | |
| 7 | 11 | website: https://www.springernature.com/ | |
| 12 | + | register_ids: DE-HRB:Charlottenburg 195463 B, LEI:549300UMNC43HQB3JA96, ISIN:DE000SPG1003 | |
| 8 | 13 | founded: 2015 | |
| 9 | 14 | <!--/identity--> | |
| 10 | 15 | ||
| 16 | + | ## Relations <!--relations--> | |
| 17 | + | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 18 | + | | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 19 | + | | owned_by | company/gvh-vermogensverwaltungsgesellschaft-xxxiii | | | | | verified | ^snar25 | One of the two majority shareholders named in the 2025 combined group management report; a wholly owned subsidiary of Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG, pooling its votes with SSBMG. | | |
| 20 | + | | owned_by | company/springer-science-business-media-galileo-participation | | | | | verified | ^snar25 | The other majority shareholder; the corporate governance statement calls it a majority-owned and controlled indirect subsidiary of funds advised by BC Partners LLP. | | |
| 21 | + | | parent_org | company/holtzbrinck-publishing-group | | 2015 | | | verified | ^snar25 | Holtzbrinck has held the majority since the May 2015 merger and holds it today through GvH 33, its wholly owned Stuttgart subsidiary. | | |
| 22 | + | <!--/relations--> | |
| 23 | + | ||
| 24 | + | ## Establishments <!--establishments--> | |
| 25 | + | | mark | kind | address | country | source | note | | |
| 26 | + | | ---- | ------ | ---------------------------------- | ------- | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 27 | + | | | office | Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin | DE | ^snar25 | The registered office of Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA. | | |
| 28 | + | <!--/establishments--> | |
| 29 | + | ||
| 11 | 30 | ## Aliases <!--aliases--> | |
| 12 | − | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 13 | − | | -------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | | |
| 14 | − | | Springer Nature Link | search | | | | | |
| 31 | + | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 32 | + | | ----------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | | |
| 33 | + | | Springer Nature Link | search | | | | | |
| 34 | + | | Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA | legal | | 2018 | | | |
| 35 | + | | Springer Nature Group | search | | | | | |
| 36 | + | | Springer SBM Zero GmbH | legal | | | 2018 | | |
| 15 | 37 | <!--/aliases--> | |
| 16 | 38 | ||
| 39 | + | ## Images <!--images--> | |
| 40 | + | | asset | kind | source | licence | attribution | url | accessed | note | provider_entity_id | provider_image_id | source_image_url | download_url | retrieved_at | matched_barcode | match_method | match_confidence | original_width | original_height | stored_width | stored_height | upscaled | | |
| 41 | + | | ------------------ | ----- | ----------------- | ------------- | ---------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------ | ----------------- | ---------------- | ------------ | ------------ | --------------- | ------------ | ---------------- | -------------- | --------------- | ------------ | ------------- | -------- | | |
| 42 | + | | logo-bb868641.png | logo | wikimedia-commons | public-domain | Springer Nature | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASpringer_Nature_Logo.svg | 2026-09-21 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 43 | + | | other-2781e9a2.jpg | other | wikimedia-commons | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Fridolin freudenfett (Peter Kuley) | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWilmersdorfHeidelbergerPlatz.jpg | 2026-09-21 | The office at Heidelberger Platz 3 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, the company's registered office. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 44 | + | <!--/images--> | |
| 45 | + | ||
| 17 | 46 | ## References <!--references--> | |
| 18 | − | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 19 | − | | ----------- | --------------------------------------------- | --------------- | ---------- | --------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- | | |
| 20 | − | | wikisn | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Nature | Springer Nature | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | | | |
| 21 | − | | apressabout | https://link.springer.com/brands/apress/about | About Apress | 2026-09-17 | Apress | manufacturer | | | | | | | | |
| 47 | + | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 48 | + | | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | ------------ | ---------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- | | |
| 49 | + | | wikisn | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Nature | Springer Nature | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | | | |
| 50 | + | | wikisnde | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Nature | Springer Nature (German Wikipedia) | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | | | |
| 51 | + | | snar25 | https://annualreport.springernature.com/2025/files/sn-ar-25-combined-group-management-report.pdf | Springer Nature Annual Report 2025: combined group management report | 2026-09-21 | Springer Nature | manufacturer | 2026-03-31 | | | | | | | |
| 52 | + | | sncg25 | https://annualreport.springernature.com/2025/files/sn-ar-25-corporate-governance.pdf | Springer Nature Annual Report 2025: corporate governance | 2026-09-21 | Springer Nature | manufacturer | 2026-03-31 | | | | | | | |
| 53 | + | | gleifsn | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/549300UMNC43HQB3JA96 | GLEIF LEI record 549300UMNC43HQB3JA96: Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA, Berlin | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF | registry | | 549300UMNC43HQB3JA96 | | | | | | |
| 54 | + | | apressabout | https://link.springer.com/brands/apress/about | About Apress | 2026-09-17 | Apress | manufacturer | | | | | | | | |
| 22 | 55 | <!--/references--> | |
| 23 | 56 | ||
| 24 | 57 | ## About <!--about--> | |
| 25 | − | Springer Nature is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media, then held by BC Partners, with Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and Macmillan Education; Holtzbrinck took the majority 53 per cent share. Its constituent houses reach back to Springer-Verlag, founded in Berlin in 1842, to Nature, published since 1869, and to Macmillan Publishers, founded in 1843. Attempts to float the group in May 2018 and in autumn 2020 were abandoned in unfavourable markets, and in 2021 it acquired the open-access publisher Atlantis Press.[^wikisn] The group serves its book brands, Apress among them, from the Springer Nature Link platform.[^apressabout] | |
| 58 | + | Springer Nature is a German-British academic publisher, formally Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA, with its registered office at Heidelberger Platz 3 in Berlin.[^snar25] Wikipedia places its global head office in London, its corporate one in Berlin and its sales office in New York.[^wikisn] It was created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media, then held by BC Partners, with Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and Macmillan Education; Holtzbrinck took the majority 53 per cent share.[^wikisn] Its journals and books, among them Nature, Springer, BMC and Palgrave Macmillan, brought in revenue of 1,946.3 million euro in 2025.[^snar25] The shares have traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 4 October 2024 and joined the SDAX index that December.[^wikisnde] | |
| 59 | + | ||
| 60 | + | Two majority shareholders hold the company under a voting rights pooling agreement: GvH Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft XXXIII mbH of Stuttgart, a wholly owned subsidiary of Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG, and Springer Science+Business Media Galileo Participation S.à r.l. of Luxembourg, a majority-owned and controlled indirect subsidiary of funds advised by BC Partners LLP.[^snar25][^sncg25] Management sits with the general partner, Springer Nature Management Aktiengesellschaft, whose shares the same two shareholders hold; GvH 33 nominates three supervisory board members and the chair, SSBMG two and the deputy chair, and the two jointly nominate three independent members.[^snar25][^sncg25] German Wikipedia puts the Holtzbrinck group's holding at 50.6 per cent and BC Partners' at 34.8 per cent, with 14.6 per cent in free float.[^wikisnde] The share capital is 198,888,989 euro, divided into as many no-par bearer shares admitted to the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.[^snar25] | |
| 61 | + | ||
| 62 | + | The group's constituent houses reach back to Springer-Verlag, founded in Berlin in 1842, to Nature, published since 1869, and to Macmillan Publishers, founded in 1843.[^wikisn] Attempts to float the group in May 2018 and in autumn 2020 were abandoned in unfavourable markets; a shareholders' meeting on 5 April 2018 had already resolved the conversion into the present partnership limited by shares, registered in Berlin under HRB 195463 B.[^wikisn][^wikisnde] The company carried the name Springer SBM Zero GmbH before that conversion.[^gleifsn] In 2021 it acquired the open-access publisher Atlantis Press, and in June 2026 it sold Scientific American to LabX Media Group.[^wikisn] The group serves its book brands, Apress among them, from the Springer Nature Link platform.[^apressabout] | |
| 26 | 63 | <!--/about--> |
Source of v1
# Springer Nature <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Springer Nature
disambiguation: German-British academic publishing group formed in 2015; parent of Springer and Apress
country: DE
website: https://www.springernature.com/
founded: 2015
<!--/identity-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| -------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Springer Nature Link | search | | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ----------- | --------------------------------------------- | --------------- | ---------- | --------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| wikisn | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Nature | Springer Nature | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| apressabout | https://link.springer.com/brands/apress/about | About Apress | 2026-09-17 | Apress | manufacturer | | | | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Springer Nature is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media, then held by BC Partners, with Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and Macmillan Education; Holtzbrinck took the majority 53 per cent share. Its constituent houses reach back to Springer-Verlag, founded in Berlin in 1842, to Nature, published since 1869, and to Macmillan Publishers, founded in 1843. Attempts to float the group in May 2018 and in autumn 2020 were abandoned in unfavourable markets, and in 2021 it acquired the open-access publisher Atlantis Press.[^wikisn] The group serves its book brands, Apress among them, from the Springer Nature Link platform.[^apressabout]
<!--/about-->