Among the founding members were Hans Jürg Fehr, Pierre Bachofner, Heidi Witzig, Heiner Spiess (1948-2006), Jacques von Moos, Jean-Pierre Kuster and Peter Aeberli.
Limmat Verlag regularly publishes translations of authors from French and Italian speaking Switzerland, and Romansh literature.
For these efforts related to the verbal communication between the linguistic regions in Switzerland, Limmat Verlag was awarded by the Oertli Stiftung in 1994.
The publisher's program includes also biographies and autobiographies of known and unknown Swiss people, for instance, Gertrud Mosimann, Paula Charles, Adeline Favre, Fritz Brupbacher, Regula Engel, Anny Klawa-Morf, Max Frisch, Niklaus Meienberg, Laure Wyss, Vladimir Rosenbaum and Aline Valangin, Amalie and Theo Pinkus.
In co-operation with the Swiss Society of Folklore, Limmat Verlag published the series "Das volkskundliche Taschenbuch" (the folklore paperback), and the publishing house distributes also the Josef Burri's photo books, or historical collections, related among others to the Italian migration to Switzerland, and the entire collection of children's photographs of Emil Brunner.