Mare Nostrum Group (MNG) has acquired the leading academic and professional distribution, sales, and marketing business of Eurospan. Mare Nostrum Group’s offer to acquire the company was accepted on Monday 29th July, before the acquisition was formally completed on Friday 16th August.
Eurospan has a strong reputation within the publishing industry and has provided its services to around 200 academic, professional, scientific, and medical publishers over the past 60 years.
The acquisition of the Eurospan business and assets comes after the publishing group including United Independent Distributors Limited, Marston Book Services Limited, Eurospan Limited, and Orca Book Services Limited was put into Administration on 24th July 2024. Alex Cadwallader and Dane O’Hara of Leonard Curtis were appointed as Joint Administrators.
Mare Nostrum Group’s distribution partner, Wiley, will integrate the Eurospan publisher client inventory into their facility in Bognor Regis, from where Eurospan client publishers will be distributed. Wiley’s preferred print partner, CPI, has digital print machinery located within the Wiley facility and will offer a fully integrated zero inventory POD option to Mare Nostrum Group clients.
This acquisition will bring significant growth in both turnover and staff numbers for Mare Nostrum Group, enabling the company to further improve its sales and marketing service whilst leveraging synergies within the two organizations.
