Penguin Group

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Penguin Group
Penguin Group
Parent company Pearson PLC
Founded 1935 (as Penguin Books)
Founder Allen Lane[1]
Headquarters location City of Westminster
London, England
Imprints see below
Revenue Increase £ 1.05 billion (2010)
Official website www.penguin.com

The Penguin Group is a trade book publisher, part of Penguin Random House. The Penguin Group is owned by Pearson PLC, the global media company which also owns the Financial Times, and Bertelsmann, the German media group which owns Random House. The new company was created by a merger in October 2012 with Bertelsmann owning 53% of the joint venture, and Pearson controlling the remaining 47%.[2]

Penguin Books has its registered office in City of Westminster, London, England.[3][4]

Its British division is Penguin Books Ltd. Other separate divisions can be found in the United States, Ireland, New Zealand, India, Australia, Canada, China, and South Africa.

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History [edit]

Penguin Books Ltd. (est. 1935) of the United Kingdom was bought over by Pearson Longman in 1970.

Penguin Group (USA) Inc. was formed in 1996 as a result of the merger between Penguin Books USA and the Putnam Berkley Group. The newly formed company was originally called Penguin Putnam Inc., but in 2003 changed its name to Penguin Group (USA) Inc. to reflect the parent Pearson PLC's grouping of all the Penguin companies worldwide under the supervisory umbrella of Pearson's own Penguin Group division.

The different Penguin companies use many imprints, many of which used to be independent publishers.[5] Penguin Group (USA) Inc. also operates its own speaker's bureau that books speaking engagements for many of the publisher's authors.

In October 2012, Pearson entered into talks with rival conglomerate Bertelsmann, over the possibility of combining their respective publishing companies, Penguin Group and Random House. The houses are considered two of the "Big Six" publishing companies.[6] The European Union approved of the Penguin Random House merger on April 5, 2013; Pearson controls 47% of the publisher.

Imprints [edit]

Penguin Group imprints include the following:[7]

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "about Penguin - company history, Penguin Books
  2. ^ Mark Sweney "Penguin and Random House merger to create biggest book publisher ever seen", The Guardian, 29 October 2012
  3. ^ "26. What is Penguin Books Limited's company registration number?" Penguin Books. Retrieved on 28 August 2009.
  4. ^ "Maps." City of Westminster. Retrieved on 28 August 2009.
  5. ^ "Penguin Group (USA): About Us". 
  6. ^ [1]
  7. ^ "Penguin: Publishers/Imprints". 
  8. ^ [2]
  9. ^ [3]
  10. ^ [4]

External links [edit]

The "Big Six" Publishers in the United States
Penguin
Simon & Schuster
HarperCollins
Macmillan
Random House
Hachette
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