About

Who We Are

Mare Nostrum Group is an experienced, full-service print and digital publishing company providing sales, marketing, distribution, recruitment, and consultancy services to academic, trade, professional, and society publishers across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. We provide a fully collaborative service which complements and extends the work of our client publishers.

We are not a publisher, which means your books always take centre stage, not our own.

How We Started

Founded in 2003 as a sales agency, Mare Nostrum has gradually built up its expertise, suite of services, and reputation amongst academic, trade, professional, and society publishers. The acquisition of Combined Academic Publishers in 2013 and then Eurospan in 2024, has augmented organic growth achieved over the past two decades.

Since Mare Nostrum’s inception our goal has always been to provide a customised sales and marketing service, tailored to the requirements of our publishers and their authors. We are book people at heart, and, as the company has grown, that passion to find readers and markets for our publishers and their books has remained central to our ethos. We pride ourselves on being able to offer a service with the reach, expertise, and leverage of a larger agency, whilst maintaining the personalised touch of a boutique, independent operation.

Where We’re Going

Our increased scale has enabled Mare Nostrum Group to appropriately resource clients. We have recently restructured the team across the business to accommodate our expanded list of clients and to continue to provide the tailored, comprehensive service we are renowned for.

We have made significant investments in our systems and hired extensively to create three marketing, sales, and client management divisions: Academic & Professional, Higher Education, and Trade. Our highly respected University Press group sits alongside the Scientific, Technical, and Medical, and Social Science groups in the Academic and Professional Division, and our Higher Education Division caters for the direct sales and marketing requirements of textbook publishers. Our newly created Trade Division gives client publishers access to an experienced and enthusiastic UK sales team, providing knowledgeable and extensive coverage of UK key accounts, bookshops, and online retailers, alongside a proactive publicity and digital marketing team.

Mare Nostrum Group now provides its suite of services to over 100 prestigious academic, trade, professional, and society publisher clients. With offices in Harrogate and London and an in-house team of over 50 employees, Mare Nostrum Group is widely considered to be the pre-eminent, independent marketing and sales agency, outside of North America.