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| About McGraw-Hill Australia & New Zealand |
| Who We Are | Leadership Focus | About the McGraw-Hill Companies |
| Who We Are |
McGraw-Hill Australia & New Zealand are leading educational publishers, combining the resources of a major global company with over 40 years of local expertise and market knowledge.
McGraw-Hill Australia & New Zealand are wholly owned subsidiaries of The McGraw-Hill Companies. McGraw-Hill commenced business in Australia in 1964, and in New Zealand in 1974, and offers an extensive local and international publishing program. We are proud of our reputation and strong presence in tertiary marketplace.
McGraw-Hill Australia & New Zealand are dynamic publishers with interests in many emerging educational trends. In the areas of online learning and flexible custom publishing, McGraw-Hill Australia & New Zealand have played an innovative and pioneering role. In each of our three market focus areas, we pride ourselves in keeping in touch with market trends and servicing the needs of customers, from individual instructors to the collective needs of thousands of students and readers from all over Australia and New Zealand.
McGraw-Hill Australia & New Zealand publishes and distributes products in three main market focus areas:
 Higher Education
Primary and Secondary Education (grades K to 12)
Professional (including Medical, General and Reference)
We employ in excess of 100 people in Australia and New Zealand, including a large sales force, editorial and production staff. If you are interested in joining McGraw-Hill Australia, please visit in our .
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| Leadership Focus |
Our goal is to be the Australian and New Zealand leader in developing and marketing quality information products and services to selected educational, professional, and consumer markets through innovation, teamwork, and partnerships.
McGraw-Hill Education focuses on two central strategies which demonstrate a strong leadership focus:
Market leadership
McGraw-Hill titles are market leaders in many subject areas. Our titles undergo rigorous editorial development and are rewarded by leading market shares and strong sales in each new edition.
McGraw-Hill Education has been the first to publish in many subject areas and markets, and continues to search out new opportunities, as well as constantly improving our existing products.
Technology leadership
We publish in all media including print, CD-ROM, and the Web, and we are dedicated to integrating technology into the lifelong learning environment.
Some McGraw-Hill Education firsts include:
First interactive software program integrated with a textbook, McGraw-Hill Mathematics, 1982
First digital custom textbook, Primis, 1989
First online browser-based multimedia textbook, Norton Introduction to Computers, 1998
The first professional textbook/reference work transformed into an updated daily database, Harrison's Online, 1998
The first comprehensive online revision tool for students in Higher Education with the release of MaxMark in 2000.
2003 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing for multimedia approach to Primary reading and writing, Inside Stories: Think and Link Activities
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| About the McGraw-Hill Companies |
The McGraw-Hill Companies touches people at all stages of life with the breath and depth of our information products and services, helping them to make decisions and move ahead.
Education
A global leader in educational materials and professional information, with offices in more than 30 countries and publications in more than 40 languages, McGraw-Hill Education develops products that influence people's lives, throughout their lives, from preschool through career. And the scope of our operations, the quality of our editorial product, and the pace at which we are developing new media to fulfill our customers' information requirements are increasing. Wherever in the world you are, whatever in the world you need to know, The McGraw-Hill Companies is there, keeping the world up to speed.
Through online learning and multimedia tools, students of all ages, teachers and professionals are engaged, stimulated and empowered to succeed by McGraw-Hill Education the world over. We're changing the way people learn. McGraw-Hill Education is the largest kindergarten through 12th grade publisher in the U.S. and a leading global provider of education materials and professional information.
Financial Services
Standard & Poor's sets the standard for the global investment community through our widely recognized credit ratings, independent investment information, analytical services, and corporate valuations and value analysis. Among our many products are the S&P 1200, the premier global equity performance benchmark, the S&P 500, the premier U.S. portfolio index, and credit ratings on more than 220,000 securities and funds worldwide. Standard & Poor's is an integral part of the global financial infrastructure.
Information & Media
Business intelligence, analysis and solutions. We are the global leader to millions of business, energy, construction and aerospace and defense professionals who rely on our information, insight and solutions to stay competitive in their fields and succeed in the global economy. We are BusinessWeek, the Aviation Week Group, Platts, McGraw-Hill Construction, McGraw-Hill Broadcasting stations and our Healthcare Information Group, all intently focused
For more information about the McGraw-Hill companies, visit the .
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