About

Who We Are

The Mare Nostrum Group (MNG) is an experienced, full-service print and digital publishing company providing distribution, sales, marketing, data management, recruitment, and consultancy services to academic, trade, professional, and society publishers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. 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 client services and reputation amongst academic, trade, professional, and society publishers. The acquisition of Combined Academic Publishers in 2013 and then Eurospan in 2024, has augumented organic growth achieved over the past two decades. With offices in Harrogate and London and an in-house team of over 50 employees, MNG is now widely considered to be the pre-eminent sales and marketing agency outside of the US.

This increased scale has enabled MNG 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 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.

Where We’re Going

Mare Nostrum Group now provides its suite of services to over 100 prestigious academic, trade, professional, and society publisher clients and is widely considered to be the pre-eminent academic publishing marketing and sales agency, outside of North America.

We aim to offer a service with enterprise level reach and influence, but with the personalised touch of a boutique operation.