![]() ![]() ![]() So then, the name of Brett and the name of Macmillan have been and are synonymous in the United States. I succeeded my father, and we currently doing a business of approximately $12,000,000. by my father, who eventually incorporated The Macmillan Company of New York and built up business of about $9,000,000. He came to the United States with his family in the service of Macmillan's of England and built up a business of approximately $50,000 before he died. ![]() made the following comments in a letter dated 23 January 1947 to Daniel Macmillan about his family's devotion to the American publishing industry:įor the record my grandfather was employed by Macmillan's of England as a salesman. and Harold Macmillan remained close personal friends. Even with the split of the American company from its parent company in Britain, George Brett Jr. in 1896, resulting in the creation of an American company, Macmillan Publishing. operations to the Brett family, George Platt Brett Sr. George Edward Brett opened the first Macmillan office in the United States in 1869 and Macmillan sold its U.S. ![]()
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