About New Holland Publishing
New Holland Publishing is an International book & map publisher and logistics service provider to the book industry. The head office is situated in Cape Town, South Africa and overseas offices are in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
Our Divisions
Map Studio
MapStudio has been the leading publisher and distributor of maps in Africa for over 50 years. Products include a large range of detailed street guides, road maps, atlases, tourist maps, coffee-table & illustrated atlases, educational products and wall maps.
In addition to this large product range of maps, MapStudio also distribute the internationally renowned Globetrotter Travel Guide series which comprises over 100 international destination titles. This Travel Series encompasses travel guides, maps, atlases, foreign language phrase books, island and safari & wildlife guides.
Since its founding in 1958, MapStudio has always strived to maintain and publish maps of the highest quality and accuracy through a local team of in-house researchers and professional cartographers. Today, MapStudio has the capacity and ability to meet the ever-changing needs of the mapping industry with an excellent online mapping website and dedicated digital custom mapping division.
All MapStudio products may be customised, branded or supplied digitally. For further information, or to discuss your specific requirements, please call us nationwide on 0860 10 50 50 or visit our online store at www.mapstudio.co.za
Random House Struik
www.struik.co.za
www.randomstruik.co.za
www.umuzi-randomhouse.co.za
In September 2008 Random House South Africa and Struik Publishers announced their merger to create a significant new player in the African book publishing industry. The new company, known as Random House Struik (Pty) Ltd, brings together two of the country's most prominent book publishers under the leadership of Stephen Johnson.
The new company is 50.1% owned by New Holland Publishing SA (Pty) Ltd, with the balance held by the Random House Group Ltd in London. New Holland Publishing SA is fully owned by Avusa (formerly Johnnic Communications). Prior to the deal, Avusa held a 25% stake in Random House SA, controlled by Random House UK.
Random House Struik (Pty) Ltd's local publishing, which will promote books written in both English and Afrikaans, will drive half the company's output. It is underpinned by Struik's 47–year heritage publishing mainly non–fiction African titles under the Struik, Zebra Press and Oshun Books imprints. Random House SA's local imprint Umuzi, established three years ago to mark the company's 40th anniversary in South Africa, will continue to publish new voices in both fiction and non-fiction.
Struik's previous bestselling local titles include In Black and White: The Jake White Story by Jake White (Zebra Press) which sold over 200,000 copies last year. Umuzi's bestselling title to date is Dark Continent my Black Arse by Sihle Khumalo, closely followed by Odyssey to Freedom by George Bizos and a number of titles by popular author Antjie Krog.
Struik Christian Media
www.struikchristianmedia.co.za
Struik Christian Media is a leading publisher and distributor of Bibles and Christian books in South Africa, representing the top Christian publishers in the world, including:
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Strang Communications
Christian Focus
Crusade for World Revival
David C. Cook
Destiny Image
Faithwords
Hovel & Oasis Audio
Kingsway
Christian Republic
Christian Republic is an exciting online resource website for Christians. It's a friendly environment for Christians of all ages and denominations to interact and access cutting edge resources online such as an online shop, prayer request rooms, blogs, bible tools, a church finder and much more.
Booksite Afrika
Booksite Afrika is the largest book warehousing and distribution facility to the South African book trade with a market share of 45 - 50 %. They are also the largest distributor of South African published titles into Africa. Booksite Afrika's relationship is based on a strong partnership principle with Publishing partners playing an active role in managing the business together with Booksite Afrika.
MapIT
MapIT is the leading supplier of quality digital maps of Sub-Saharan Africa. Clients use our spatial data for vehicle tracking, fleet management, emergency services, web mapping, business planning, market analysis, geo-marketing, call centre solutions and mobile applications.
MapIT was established seven years ago, providing digital map data to the local market. The successes in South Africa enabled us to expand our coverage and we are now the leading provider of comprehensive maps of Sub-Saharan Africa.
The consistency, innovation and accuracy of our digital mapping activities in Sub-Saharan Africa, and subsequent expansion into Africa, attracted the interest of Tele Atlas, the world’s most trusted source of digital maps. Avusa Limited owns a 51% share of MapIT through New Holland Publishing and Tele Atlas now owns the remaining 49%.
Tele Atlas has integrated MapIT’s extensive mapping data into their global database and enhanced it using their sophisticated and innovative technology, so we are able to provide our clients with map data of international standards, resulting in a superior end-product.
Lovell Johns
www.lovelljohns.co.uk
www.mapsinternational.co.uk
Lovell Johns is a map making company providing cartography, GIS and mapping services to businesses, publishers and the public sector.
With over 40 years experience in the mapping industry we are experts at providing mapping solutions to suit each individual client's requirements. It's this personal approach that means our clients can always be assured of the quality of their mapping project.