Hachette News

Hachette UK has today revealed its Ethnicity Pay Gap Action Plan, following publication of its second Ethnicity Pay Gap Report* in July and subsequent employee workshops over the summer.   Hachette UK’s 2020 Ethnicity Pay […]

Hachette UK’s Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) employee network, THRIVE, is joining forces with the BAME employee networks at HarperCollins (Elevate) and Penguin Random House UK (Colour[Full]) for the first time, to hold a […]

Hachette UK’s Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) employee network, THRIVE, is partnering with its authors to host a series of free panels in celebration of Black History Month. The panels, which will be held […]

Hachette UK’s Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) employee network, THRIVE, has partnered with the design teams in its trade divisions to launch a series of free portfolio sessions for designers and illustrators from BAME […]

Hachette UK’s network for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) employees, THRIVE, has launched a free fiction development programme – ‘Grow Your Story’ – for unpublished and unagented writers from BAME backgrounds. The programme, in […]

Hachette UK has announced the acquisition of Laurence King Publishing (LKP), the UK’s leading gift publisher and one of the country’s top three art publishers. This follows the signing of an agreement between the shareholders […]

Hachette UK has announced a new partnership with All About Trans and a donation to LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall UK as the latest initiatives in Changing the Story, a diversity and inclusion programme launched in 2016 […]

30th July 2020, London – Hachette UK has been selected as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2020, while its Gender Balance Network has won Employee Network Group of the Year (Private […]

Hachette UK has created a new publishing toolkit in partnership with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, to make careers in the industry more accessible to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The toolkit, which launches today, […]

  6th July 2020, London – Hachette UK has published its ethnicity pay gap* report for the second year in a row, with representation of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) employees increasing to 9.6%. […]

16th June 2020, London – Hachette UK has announced plans to open five new offices in Edinburgh, Newcastle, Manchester, Sheffield and Bristol over the next 12 months, following a year-long consultation with staff who have […]

  London – Hachette UK has partnered with Neighbourly to donate 12,000 books to local communities around the UK during the pandemic.   David Shelley, CEO of Hachette UK, commented: “Books connect us and that’s […]