Springer Nature: version 3
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# Springer Nature <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Springer Nature
disambiguation: German-British academic publishing group formed in 2015; parent of Springer and Apress
summary: Academic publisher in Berlin, listed in Frankfurt since 2024 and majority-owned by the Holtzbrinck group, publisher of Nature, Springer and Palgrave Macmillan.
legal_name: Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA
registered_address: Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin, Germany
wikidata: Q21096327
country: DE
website: https://www.springernature.com/
register_ids: DE-HRB:Charlottenburg 195463 B, LEI:549300UMNC43HQB3JA96, ISIN:DE000SPG1003
founded: 2015
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | ---------------------------------- | ------- | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| | office | Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin | DE | ^snar25 | The registered office of Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ----------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Springer Nature Link | search | | | |
| Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA | legal | | 2018 | |
| Springer Nature Group | search | | | |
| Springer SBM Zero GmbH | legal | | | 2018 |
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## Images <!--images-->
| 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 |
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| logo-bb868641.png | logo | wikimedia-commons | public-domain | Springer Nature | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASpringer_Nature_Logo.svg | 2026-09-21 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 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. | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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## 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 | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| wikisnde | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Nature | Springer Nature (German Wikipedia) | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| 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 | | | | | |
| 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 | | | | | |
| 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 | | | | |
| apressabout | https://link.springer.com/brands/apress/about | About Apress | 2026-09-17 | Apress | manufacturer | | | | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
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]
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]
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]
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