Ediciones Akal is a Spanish publisher founded in
Madrid
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in 1972 by Ramón Akal González.
It consists of a catalogue of three thousand works in forty collections which includes fields like
Humanities
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,
classic texts, modern literature, etc., and a collection of
dictionaries
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.
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Grupo Akal belong to Istmo, Foca, H. Blume and Siglo XXI de España Editores, acquired in 2010. Grupo Akal counts with more than 70 employees in 2015.
It received the Premio Nacional for Mejor Labor Editorial Cultural in 2010.]
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Book publishing companies of Spain
Publishing companies established in 1972
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