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Villard, also known as Villard Books, is a publishing imprint of Random House, [1] one of the largest publishing companies in the world, [citation needed] owned in full by Bertelsmann since its acquisition of a final 25% stake in 2019, and grouped in Penguin Random House since 2013. [2] Villard was founded in 1983. [3]
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]
In 2019, Penguin Random House acquired British children's book publisher Little Tiger Group, including Tiger Tales Press, a U.S. subsidiary, and added it to Random House Children's Books. [30] Penguin Random House announced an agreement to purchase Boom! Studios in July 2024, where Boom! would become part of Random House Worlds. [31] [32]
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]
Transworld is a British publishing house in Ealing, London that is a division of Penguin Random House, one of the world's largest mass media groups.It was established in 1950 as the British division of American company Bantam Books. [1]
DK has continued to sell Star Wars books after the takeover. [9] In 2013, Bertelsmann and Pearson completed a merger to form Penguin Random House. [10] Bertelsmann owned 53% and Pearson 47% of the company. Penguin's trade publishing activity continued to include DK under the newly formed Penguin Random House. [11]
Portfolio is a division of Penguin Group (USA) and Penguin Random House founded in 2001 by Adrian Zackheim [1] as a business book imprint dedicated to technology, economics, entrepreneurship, biography, and investigative journalism.
In 2023, Penguin Random House became the majority owner of Sourcebooks, owning 52% of the company; [15] and Sourcebooks acquired Callisto Media, the parent of Rockridge Press. [16] The same year, Penguin Random House and Sourcebooks launched Callisto China. [17] As of January 2024, Sourcebooks says that it is the seventh largest book publisher ...