Rank／Publishing Company (Group or Division) ／Parent Company／Parent Country／2006 $ Revenues／2005 $ Revenues
1.Reed Elsevier Reed Elsevier UK/NL 7,606.30 7,217.60
2.PearsonPearson plc UK 7,301.00 6,807.00
3.ThomsonThomson Corp. Canada 6,641.00 6,173.00
4.BertelsmannBertelsmann AG Germany 5,995.60 5,475.60
5.Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer NL 4,800.90 4,386.20
6.Hachette Livre Lagardère France 2,567.50 2,137.20
7.McGraw-Hill Education The McGraw-Hill Cos. US 2,524.00 2,672.00
8.Reader's Digest Reader's Digest US 2,386.00 2,390.00
9.Scholastic Corp. Scholastic US 2,283.80 2,079.90
10.De Agostini Editore Gruppo De Agostini Italy N/A 2,089.10
11.Holtzbrinck Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck Germany N/A 1,594.84
12.Grupo Planeta Grupo Planeta Spain 1,319.50 N/A
13.HarperCollins News Corporation US 1,312.00 1,327.00
14.Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Ireland 1,054.731 1,282.10
15.Informa Informa plc UK 1,271.14 N/A
16.Springer Science and Business Media Cinven and Candover UK/Germany/Italy/France 1,201.20 1,088.10
17.Kodansha Kodansha Japan 1,180.92 1,253.85
18.Shogakukan Shogakukan Japan N/A 1,176.63
19.Shueisha Shueisha Japan N/A 1,093.95
20.John Wiley & Sons John Wiley & Sons US 1,044.19 974.00
21.Editis Wendel Investissement France 981.50 1,008.96
22.RCS Libri RCS Media Group Italy 937.82 921.18
23.Oxford Univ. Press Oxford University UK 786.11 858.65
24.Kadokawa Publishing Kadokawa Holdings Inc. Japan 808.60 809.90
25.Simon & Schuster CBS US 807.00 763.00
26.Bonnier The Bonnier Group Sweden 769.56 N/A
27.Gakken Gakken Co. Ltd. Japan 682.89 756.99
28.Grupo Santillana PRISA Spain 635.44 545.22
29.Messagerie Italiane Messagerie Italiane Italy 629.20 N/A
30.Mondadori(book division) The Mondadori Group Italy 571.35 552.50
31.Klett Klett Gruppe Germany 520.00 458.12
32.Cornelsen Cornelsen Germany 451.10 450.97
33.Harlequin Torstar Corp. Canada 407.03 449.54
34.WSOY Publishing and Educational Publishing Sanoma WSOY Finland 401.70 N/A
35.Médias Participations Media Participations Belgium 381.16 391.56
36.Les Editions Lefebvre-Sarrut Frojal France 342.29 293.80
37.Langenscheidt Langenscheidt Germany 338.00 N/A
38.Weka Weka Firmengruppe Germany 327.47 333.84
39.Groupe Gallimard Madrigall France 309.40 330.14
40.Westermann Verlagsgruppe Medien Union (Rheinland-Pflaz Gruppe) Germany 303.94 294.84
41.Kyowon Kyowon Korea N/A 303.68
42.Weltbild Verlagsgruppe Weltbild GmbH Germany 299.78 291.46
43.La Martinière Groupe La Martinière Groupe France 296.40 334.10
44.Higher Education Press Higher Education Press China (PR) N/A 266.50
45.Egmont(book division) Egmont International Holding A/S Denmark 260.00 232.70

N/A = Not Available.
1 = For first nine months of 2006.
Note: Figures are based on sales generated in calendar 2006 or—in cases with a fiscal year—from fiscal 2006. Data is from publicly available sources, in most cases annual reports. No attempts have been made to estimate sales in 2006 for companies that have not yet released updated figures. The listing was compiled by international publishing consultant Rudiger Wischenbart.
Source: Reed Business Information

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【注】
阿帕克斯（Apax Partners）公司是全球領先的私募股權投資集團之一，投資範圍涵蓋了美國、歐洲和以色列。到目前為止，阿帕克斯公司在全世界已募集並管理超過120億美元的資金。其投資的公司已經超過500家。阿帕克斯基金擁有超過30年的直接投資經驗，提供長期的資本融資來創建和壯大世界級的公司。阿帕克斯積極尋求平穩的投資組合戰略，在風險後期、成長資本和收購等方面進行投資。

阿帕克斯於1972年在美國和歐洲同時創建，目前在全世界有11個辦公室。