About Cambridge University Press in this region
Cambridge University Press Asia, which is based in Singapore, was established in 1998 after having initially established sales and marketing offices in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. There are now country offices in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, and four offices in Hong Kong/China. All our offices have a sales and marketing function and work closely with our local distribution partners to ensure our publications are available to teachers, students, academics, librarians and the general public throughout Asia.The Asia Branch, Singapore, is a dynamic and flexible operation which plays an important role in supporting the activities of our country offices and our local partners, and provides a distribution centre from which English Language Teaching, Academic and Educational titles are warehoused and distributed to the region. The Branch consists of five departments: a marketing department which provides marketing and sales support for our country offices; a production department which supports our offices by arranging manufacturing and pre-press work on market specific editions and versions; an editorial department which publishes English Language Teaching market-specific editions and versions and original titles specifically suited to the Asian markets; a customer service department which facilitates smooth delivery of our titles to our distributors; and an operations department which supports the financial and operational requirements of our offices. Among the strengths of our operation in Asia are the close and valuable relationships we have in each of our markets with our exclusive distributors. These include United Publishing Services in Japan, Cambridge Company. Ltd. in South Korea, and DK Today Co Ltd. in Thailand. These organizations distribute our titles and work closely with us to support our promotional activities through visits and assistance with events.
We also work in close cooperation with Cambridge ESOL and Cambridge International Exams to ensure the Cambridge brand is strongly supported throughout the region. The Asian Branch, Singapore, and offices throughout Asia have a staff of extremely dedicated, qualified and experienced individuals who strive to expand the business in Asia and achieve the Press’s ultimate goal of ‘the acquisition, advancement, conservation and dissemination of knowledge in all subjects’.
About Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is both the oldest printing and publishing house in the world and the oldest university press. It originated from Letters Patent (a 'royal charter') granted to the University by Henry VIII in 1534, and has been operating continuously as a printing and publishing business since the first University Press book was printed in 1584.
The story of the last 150 years is one of phenomenal growth and development in both the Press's printing and publishing activities. In the 1850s, the Press was predominantly a printing business, and primarily a printer of Bibles and prayer-books. Today, the Press has a large, modern printing house with staff skilled in the newest computerized techniques, printing a vast range of scholarly and educational books and journals, not only for the Press but for many other publishers and organizations throughout the world.
One of the most exciting developments of the past fifty years has been the expansion of the Press's international presence. With branches, offices and agents throughout the world, the Press today is able to draw on a remarkable range of authors (currently some 25,000 in 116 different countries) and to market and distribute material (both print and electronic) to readers every where.
The future will see more growth and diversity as the Press publishes in new formats and media, establishes a presence in emerging educational markets, responds to intellectual developments in the subject areas where it is already active, and continuously invests in technological change to improve its production, distribution and information systems. But the whole of this great expansion remains essentially an organic development, directly related to the Press's statutory aims and realized through a unitary, international printing and publishing organization, with its physical and constitutional centre in Cambridge.