Structure

As one of the 111 McGraw-Hill Companies around the globe, McGraw-Hill Ryerson fits into the International arm of the Professional Publishing umbrella. Professional Publishing is one of the three very large components of the McGraw-Hill Companies.Although we report into our parent company in New York, we are staffed and managed by Canadians and enjoy considerable autonomy.

McGraw-Hill Ryerson is organized into three revenue divisions and four support divisions. The revenue divisions are: Higher Education, Elementary and Secondary, and Trade, Professional and Medical. The support divisions consist of Finance, Customer Care, Editorial Design Production, and Human Resources.

Higher Education Division

Higher Education (formerly known as the College Division) publishes learning materials for use in post-secondary educational institutions. Subject areas covered include economics, finance, technology, English, political science, sociology, accounting, engineering, life sciences, physical sciences, marketing, administrative studies and business administration. Canadian adaptations of successful textbooks published by the parent company, as well as products previously held by Times-Mirror, make up an important part of the Higher Education list. Instructor's manuals, overhead transparencies, test banks, software and web sites are often produced to complement the texts.

Elementary & Secondary Education Division

The Elementary & Secondary Education Division publishes resources for the elementary and secondary school market in all provinces and territories. We meet the requirements of the various departments of education in Canadian authorship, content, manufacturing and quality. The Elementary & Secondary Education Division publishes in the areas of mathematics, science, social studies and history, business education and family studies. Teacher's manuals, test banks, workbooks and CD-ROM and computer software are produced to accompany many of these texts.

Trade, Professional and Medical Division

The Trade, Professional and Medical Division publishes and distributes reference books on a wide array of subjects. Our indigenous publishing program focuses on subject-areas that are exclusively Canadian, such as personal finance, taxes, small business and reference. The agencies for which we distribute have a broader focus. McGraw-Hill, our parent company, has a broad product line which includes business, professional, medical, general interest and the contemporary book group. We also distribute for the Harvard Business School Press.

Foreign Markets

Because most of the products are written for the specialized Canadian markets, exports are limited to those of a sufficiently universal character to interest foreign markets, including the Study Smart and Portfolio Development software packages. In the past few years, our business management and training titles have met with much success in the U.S., U.K., Australia and Asia. Technical books have been translated into French for the French and North African markets, and Spanish translations sell in the Latin American countries.

Publishing Programs

The range of books published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson covers all levels and types of educational institutions: elementary, secondary and tertiary; academic, business and vocational. Our professional and trade publishing program offers to the general public a wide range of non-fiction books - from wine guides to RRSPs, from cooking to sports, from business handbooks to military history.

Canadian-produced books account for approximately 40% of our total revenues. Approximately 55% of revenue is derived from the sale of U.S. parent-company products and 5% from the sale of other publishers' titles for which we are the agents.

We have more than 1000 Canadian-produced books in print representing about 800 authors. We pay out to these authors more than $2.5 million in royalties annually. In a year, we publish an average of 100 English language books.

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