Sage has won the ProQuest Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year award at the Independent Publishing Awards, which recognizes outstanding publishing organizations that demonstrate quality and success across key areas, including strategy, commissioning, design, sustainability, DEI, customer & market knowledge, and innovation.
Judges commended Sage for its organic growth in books, journals, and learning resources in the UK. They highlighted Sage’s exemplary market knowledge and praised efforts to make its publishing more diverse and sustainable, remarking, “Sage is delivering strong growth across the board. It’s good to see a social sciences publisher — and such a proudly and resolutely independent one — doing so well.”
Collecting the award, Ziyad Marar, president of global publishing at Sage, said, “It’s wonderful in our anniversary year to be celebrating our independence. The whole company has changed so radically in the time that various of us have been there, but independence has been that through line that has existed all along.”
Hosted by the Independent Publishers Guild, the awards celebrate the achievements of the independent publishing sector in the UK and Ireland.
