Unimax Macmillan is part of the Macmillan global publishing network actively involved in local publishing and the distribution of Macmillan Publications. The company has been at the forefront of educational publishing in Ghana since 1965. We are committed to the effective development of Education in Ghana.

We operated as Macmillan Education until 1985. Unimax Publishers was then formed, under the overall management of one of the most reputable publishers in Ghana, Mr Edward Addo, to publish locally and also represent Macmillan UK in Ghana. The Year 2000 saw the formation of a new company called UNIMAX MACMILLAN LTD. With this recent transformation of the company from Unimax Publishers to Unimax Macmillan, there has been tremendous expansion. Branch Offices have been set up in Kumasi, Cape Coast, Ho and Tamale to ensure that the book needs of people in all parts of the country are effectively taken care of. These offices are now in full operation.

Unimax Macmillan publishes supplementary readers and educational books for pre-school, primary, secondary, and technical, teacher training and tertiary institutions. We also publish books for various professions and for general reading.

We market and distribute our books countrywide through various booksellers and bookshops, libraries and by direct contact with schools and other book users. Unimax Macmillan has the reputation of being the most dynamic distributor of books in the country, earning for itself various awards including the Best Marketing Oriented Company in Publishing and the Ghana Book Award for our invaluable contribution to Publishing in Ghana especially in the area of Text Book Production.

Products

Our range of supplementary readers include:

Pacesetters - For old Teenagers and Young Adults
Mactracks - For Young Teenagers
Hop Step Jump - For Primary school level readers, and
Ready Go - For pre- School and beginners.

The others are Trendsetters, Young lives, Living Earth and Living Health Series, Today's Children, Bible Stories and Stories from the Qur'an, Stories to Remember, Heinemann Guided Readers and the AIDS series comprising 5 interesting stories woven around AIDS themes. These titles cover issues on Health; Aids; Gender; Peace and Reconciliation; Social and the Environment for Primary, Junior and Senior Secondary Levels.

Our classroom texts include the widely used GAST SSS Science books and Science for JSS; French Course for JSS - Transafrique; History of Ghana and New Way English.

Our Professional books include Procedure Manual for Nurses and Midwives, Where there is no Doctor, Where women have no Doctor, Where there is no Vet, A French Course for JSS (Transafrique), History of Ghana and New Way English and Mastering Hairdressing. The Macmillan Professional Master Series and Macmillan Business Books cover issues on Management, Accounting, Marketing, Computing and General Business.

The Motivate Series have been specially made for various technical vocations in Ghana.

Among our new titles are English for Senior Secondary (SSS), Atlas for SSS, Basic Learners Dictionary and First Steps for pre-school.

Currently, Unimax Macmillan is interested in publishing books in some of the subjects under the Free Compulsory Basic Education (FCUBE) programme. The Integrated Science for Primary is out and available in all leading bookshops. The other titles will be out soon.

For all our products the emphasis is on quality in terms of content and production.

Activities

Unimax Macmillan has been actively involved in developing local authorship skills not only in creative writing but in other areas like educational textbooks as well. We solicit for authors and commission them to write on specific subjects. This involves quite a lot of research. We from time to time conduct research into areas where books are needed. We then look for local authors who are experts in those subject areas, commission them to write, work in collaboration with them in the preparation of the manuscript and publish books to fill vital areas.

As part of the programme to fulfil the educational needs of the country, we organise seminars/ workshops for existing, new or prospective writers from time to time. The purpose is to recruit new local writers to produce stories for some of our series like the Pacesetter Novels, the Ready Go and Hop Step Jump Readers.

Macmillan played a pioneering role in the developing authorship skills in such areas as Mathematics (T.Q. Armah) and English (Service Addo). We collaborate with various subject associations and bodies in the preparation of textbooks. For example in the preparation of the SSS GAST Science Books, we worked in collaboration with the Ghana Association of Science Teachers. Similarly, we collaborated with the Teacher Education Division of the Ghana Education Service (GES), the British Overseas Administration and UNICEF in the publication of Mathematics for Teacher Training in Ghana. We also Collaborated with UNICEF in the publication of Mosquito the killer. Click to continue...

E-mail: info@unimacmillan.com