Timothy Edmund Godfray

The Booksellers Association of the United Kingdom & Ireland is a trade body that promotes retail bookselling in the UK and Ireland. The private company is based in London, UK, and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom. The association operates the National Book Token scheme and sponsors the Whitbread Award. It represents 95% of British retail booksellers and operates the Batch payments system, an electronic purchasing interface for independent bookshops. The British company was founded in 1895 by Daniel Macmillan, Alexander Macmillan. The CEO is Meryl Jane Halls.

The Book Depository Ltd. is an online bookseller that offers a range of titles in the world. It is an international bookseller shipping books worldwide. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Gloucestershire, the United Kingdom.

Part of Elliott Capital Advisors LP, Blackwell Ltd. is a British company that retails books and periodicals. The company is based in Oxford, UK. The company was founded in 1992. Blackwell was acquired by Waterstones Booksellers Ltd. (United Kingdom) on February 28, 2022.

Blackwell UK Ltd. is a leading supplier of academic books and bibliographic support to academic & research libraries in the U.K., Europe and Africa. It is also the leading academic bookseller in the U.K. with more than 44 shops in retail centers, on university campuses and an online bookshop. The company has built an international reputation for bookselling excellence.

The Book Trade Charity provides grant making services to individuals. The non-profit company is based in Hertfordshire, UK. The British company was founded in 1837. David Hicks has been the CEO of the company since 1994.

Nosy Crow Ltd. is a multi-award-winning publisher of children's books and ebooks for ages 0-14. The company, founded in 2011 and based in London, UK, has won several awards, including the Independent Publishers Guild's Children's Publisher of the Year award three times, the British Book Awards' Children's Publisher of the Year award twice, and the Independent Publishers Guild Independent Publisher of the Year award. The British company has also received the Queen's Award for Enterprise - International Trade, the Stationers' Company Innovation Excellence Award, the Nectar Business Small Business of the Year award, and the Growing Business Awards Young Company of the Year award, among others. Nosy Crow is the 12th biggest children's book publisher in the UK, based on Nielsen-tracked sales to consumers. The CEO of the private company is Kate Wilson.