Bloomsbury Publishing plc (formerly M.B.N.1 Limited and Bloomsbury Publishing Company Limited) is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction. It is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index.

Bloomsbury’s head office is located in Bloomsbury, an area of the London Borough of Camden. It has a US publishing office located in New York City, an India publishing office in New Delhi, an Australia sales office in Sydney CBD and other publishing offices in the UK including at Oxford.

The company’s growth over the past two decades is primarily attributable to the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling and, from 2008, to the development of its academic and professional publishing division. The Bloomsbury Academic & Professional division won the Bookseller Industry Award for Academic, Educational & Professional Publisher of the Year in both 2013 and 2014.

Traded as:           LSE: BMY

Founded:            30 January 1986; 34 years ago (as M.B.N.1 Limited)

Founder:             Nigel Newton

Country:              United Kingdom

Headquarters:   WC1, London, England

Distribution:       Macmillan Distribution (UK, US); United Book Distributors (Australia)

Publication:        books, digital content products and online resources such as databases

Imprints:              Bloomsbury Academic;     Bloomsbury Methuen Drama (New York City)

Website:              www.bloomsbury.com