PLBY Group

Playboy Enterprises, Inc.

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Company type	Public NYSE: PLA
Industry	Lifestyle / Erotica
Founded	Template:USCity (1953)
Headquarters	Template:USCity, USA
Key people	Hugh Hefner, Founder Christie Hefner, CEO
Products	Playboy Magazine Playboy TV Playboy.com
Revenue	Official Site
Number of employees	Official Site
Website	PlayboyEnterprises.com

Playboy redirects here. For other uses, see Playboy (disambiguation).

Playboy Enterprises, Inc. is the company founded by Hugh Hefner to manage the Playboy magazine empire. It was created in 1953 as the HMH Publishing Co., Inc., then went public under the current name (NYSE: PLA, PLA.A) in 1971. Christie Hefner, the daughter of Hugh Hefner, has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Playboy Enterprises since 1981.

Playboy Enterprises, Inc. occupies the 15th and 16th floors of 680 N. Lake Shore Drive (formerly 666 N. Lake Shore Drive) in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood.

Divisions

• Publishing Group:
  • Playboy magazine
  • Playboy Newsstand Specials
• Entertainment Group:
  • Playboy TV (formerly the Playboy Channel)
  • Spice Television
• Licensing Group:
  • Handles Playboy trademarks on apparel, accessories, and more
• Online group:
  • Playboy Online (Playboy.com) website
  • PlayboyStore.com
  • Playboy Cyber Club
  • Playboy Plus
  • Playboy.net
• College Division
  • Playboy on Campus

Playboy also ran forty Playboy Club properties from 1960 to 1986.

The company is connected with the Playboy Foundation, a corporate giving organization that provides grants to non-profit groups involved in fighting censorship and researching human sexuality. Hugh Hefner who started Playboy, continues to run and operate Playboy. However, his daughter has considerable run of the operation as well.

External links

• Official Site