Bloomsbury completes five years of publishing in India

New Delhi Sep 21 (IANS) Bloomsbury Publishing a leading independent publishing house headquartered in the UK marked the fifth anniversary of its Indian company on Thursday.

Launched on September 21 2012 Bloomsbury is engaged in publishing fiction non-Fiction children s academic business and education books by both Indian and international authors. It is one of India s youngest publishing companies but has seen consistent growth over the years.

The company said that it has grown at a Compound Annual Rate Growth (CAGR) of 25 per cent in the last 5 years; outstripping the average industry growth by far in this period.

Bloomsbury marked its arrival in the country with books like "Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan" by William Dalrymple the first Wisden India "Almanack 2013" Manil Suri s novel "The City of Devi" and very soon acquired Shiv Khera whose books have sold around four million copies.

"When we started in 2012 we were a band of 4 entrepreneurs. There was multi-tasking firefighting overcoming odds and now we are a team of 40 have a smart new office with sufficient expansion possibilities and have talented and committed staff passionate about making us among the top respected valued high growth companies in our sector " said Rajiv Beri Managing Director Bloomsbury Publishing India.

Bloomsbury India s catalogue of authors also include international bestsellers like J.K. Rowling Khaled Hosseini Elizabeth Gilbert Daniel Goleman and Man Booker 2017 shortlisted author George Saunders; Nobel Prize winners Nadine Gordimer and Patrick Modiano; Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert.

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