Nine roles made redundant at Penguin
Penguin Group Australia has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that a number of staff members have recently been made redundant. Penguin Group Australia CEO Gabrielle Coyne told Bookseller+Publisher that the publisher has...
Wiley redundancies: correction
Further to last week's story about a number of redundancies at John Wiley & Sons, Wiley has issued a clarification that the job losses will only affect its Wiley-Blackwell division.'Wiley-Blackwell...
Lonely Planet confirms staff changes
Lonely Planet has confirmed it has made some changes to its print and digital teams. ‘We have been very open saying we are moving from traditional book publishing to...
Wiley confirms local redundancies in STM division
John Wiley & Sons has confirmed three positions in its Melbourne office have been made redundant. The redundancies are the result of a plan to centralise the marketing and...
Random House makes 11 redundant
Random House Australia made 11 positions redundant as of 5 March. WBN understands that many of those made redundant were in sales, particularly reps, but that other departments have also...
McGraw-Hill global restructure hits primary division in Australia
McGraw-Hill has announced a global restructure, with over 600 jobs cut worldwide, 300 of them in McGraw-Hill Education publishing businesses.Murray St Leger, MD of McGraw-Hill Australia/New Zealand, told WBN that locally...
Pearson announces more Harcourt redundancies
Following its acquisition of Harcourt Education in May, Pearson Australia has announced a number of redundancies in the senior management group at Harcourt. ‘As previously announced we will be integrating...
Pearson takeover of Harcourt complete: companies to ‘blend’, some redundancies announced
Pearson has received the necessary approvals from the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) to allow it to finalise the acquisition of Harcourt Education in Australia and New Zealand, concluding...