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Hodder & Stoughton is to undergo a restructure in the new year, creating two separate publishing divisions, each with its own managing director. Both will recruit new staff focused on consumer insight and social media marketing to “extend depth of understanding of our readers, and the ways in which we can spread the word for our authors”.
Canongate publishing director Nick Davies is returning to Hodder in January to take up the role of m.d. of one of the new divisions, John Murray Press, which will comprise John Murray (Publishers), Hodder Faith, Consumer Learning, Two Roads and Saltyard Books.
Meanwhile, Carolyn Mays is appointed m.d. of the second division, Hodder & Stoughton, which comprises the Hodder & Stoughton general fiction and non-fiction, Coronet and Sceptre lists.
Mays and Davies will report to Jamie Hodder-Williams, c.e.o. of Hodder & Stoughton, Headline and John Murray Press.
Meanwhile, current Hodder sales and marketing director Lucy Hale will take on the role of consumer director for the Hodder Group, with responsibility for sales, marketing, publicity and design across both publishing divisions. Each division will be backed by specialist marketing, publicity and design teams supported by new recruits in consumer insight and social media marketing. The changes will all come into effect in January.
Hodder-Williams said he was "thrilled" that Davies was rejoining Hachette, and said his skills "will complement our exceptionally strong editorial talent to build a collection of specialist imprints into a business fit for the digital age".
He praised Mays' "strategic approach to growing the business that aims to take our authors work to the widest possible markets", and Hale's "huge energy and vision [and] infectious determination to reach new readers”.
Canongate m.d. and publisher Jamie Byng said of Davies' departure: "Nick Davies has made an incalculable contribution to Canongate since he joined in September 2007 and so it is with enormous sadness that we will be saying goodbye to him. As both an inspirational colleague and dear friend, he will be missed by everyone in the company and we wish him all the best in his new role at Hodder."