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Derk Haank

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About Springer


  Partner for Research and Practice
   

  Knowledge, information and quality – these are the three things that shape Springer Science+Business Media’s business activities. We develop, manage and disseminate knowledge – through books, journals and the Internet. We work with the world’s best academics and authors in long-standing loyal partnerships based on mutual trust and we are always open to new input. 

We aim to offer excellence – more than 150 Nobel prize-winners have published with Springer to the present date. Many of our publications are considered authoritative works in their field, read by academics and students, used by libraries and universities, academic professionals and practitioners in various branches of industry. 
 
     
Key Facts  
       
  The world’s second-largest publisher of journals in the STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) sector, the largest publisher of STM books, and the largest business-to-business publisher in the German-language area  
       
  Around 60 publishing houses in about 20 countries in Europe, Asia and the USA  
       
  Consolidated sales:  EUR 906 million in 2007; about EUR 920 million in 2006, including EUR 77 million revenue from B2B Construction publishing activities, divested in April 2007  
       
  Approximately 5,000 employees around the world  
       
  New Springer eBook Collection with more than 25,000 titles available on http://www.springerlink.com/