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Penguin Random House Limited [3] is a British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Penguin Books was originally founded in 1935 [ 6 ] and Random House was founded in 1927. [ 7 ]
Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.The new company was created by a merger that was finalised on 1 July 2013, with Bertelsmann initially owning 53% of the joint venture, and Pearson PLC initially owning the remaining 47%. [2]
Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library , it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint.
Penguin Books is now an imprint of the worldwide Penguin Random House, a conglomerate formed in 2013 by its merger with American publisher Random House, a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. [8] Formerly, Penguin Group was wholly owned by British Pearson plc, the global media company which also owned the Financial Times. [9]
Penguin Random House logo. Penguin Random House is the world's largest book publishing company. [203] The company was created in 2013 through the merger of the publishing businesses of Bertelsmann and Pearson. [204] With the acquisition of Random House in 1998, Bertelsmann already became the largest book publisher in the English-speaking world.
The Crown Publishing Group is a subsidiary of Penguin Random House that publishes across several fiction and non-fiction categories. Originally founded in 1933 as a remaindered books wholesaler called Outlet Book Company, the firm expanded into publishing original content in 1936 under the Crown name, and was acquired by Random House in 1988.