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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]
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.
Vintage Books is a sister imprint of Random House. [26] In October 2012, Bertelsmann entered into talks with rival conglomerate Pearson plc, over the possibility of combining their respective publishing companies, Random House and Penguin Group. The merger was completed on 1 July 2013 and the new company is Penguin Random House. [27]
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.
Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954. The company was acquired by Random House in April 1960, and a British division was set up in 1990.
The Penguin Group purchased Putnam in 1996. When Penguin merged with Random House in 2013 to form Penguin Random House , Berkley was integrated with the larger paperback line New American Library ; the Berkley name was retained for that whole program, which is part of PRH's Penguin Adult group, and publishes in mass-market paperback, trade ...
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]
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]