Penguin Random House

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Penguin Random House

Summary

Penguin Random House is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 0.96% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,213 views/month, #283 of 29,529).[2]

Key Facts

  • Penguin Random House is in the country of United States[3].
  • Penguin Random House is in the country of US[4].
  • Penguin Random House's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • Penguin Random House's instance of is recorded as company[6].
  • Penguin Random House's instance of is recorded as book publisher[7].
  • Penguin Random House's founder is recorded as Markus Dohle[8].
  • Penguin Random House's item operated is recorded as Penguin Random House database[9].
  • Penguin Random House is owned by Bertelsmann[10].
  • Penguin Random House's headquarters location is recorded as New York City[11].
  • Penguin Random House's chief executive officer is recorded as Markus Dohle[12].
  • Penguin Random House's child organization or unit is recorded as Tundra Books[13].
  • Penguin Random House's child organization or unit is recorded as Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group[14].
  • Penguin Random House's child organization or unit is recorded as Penguin India[15].
  • Penguin Random House's child organization or unit is recorded as Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial[16].
  • Penguin Random House's child organization or unit is recorded as Random House of Canada[17].
  • Penguin Random House's child organization or unit is recorded as Arrow Books[18].
  • Penguin Random House's child organization or unit is recorded as Random House[19].
  • Penguin Random House's child organization or unit is recorded as Vintage Books[20].
  • Penguin Random House's child organization or unit is recorded as Q5818714[21].
  • Penguin Random House's child organization or unit is recorded as Sasquatch Books[22].
  • Penguin Random House's child organization or unit is recorded as Dutton[23].
  • Penguin Random House's child organization or unit is recorded as House of Collectibles[24].
  • Penguin Random House's child organization or unit is recorded as Alfred A. Knopf Canada[25].
  • Penguin Random House's child organization or unit is recorded as Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe[26].
  • Penguin Random House's child organization or unit is recorded as Razorbill[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 529900G1S6D7T5ZIX198[28]

  • Registered legal name: Penguin Random House LLC[29]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[30]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[31]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): HZEH[32]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[33]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[34]

  • Entity created: 2013-05-28[35]

  • LEI first registered: 2015-03-04[36]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-03-02[37]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-03-05[38]

  • Managing LOU: 5299000J2N45DDNE4Y28[39]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[40]

  • Authority entity ID: 5296789[41]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[42]

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Publisher[43]

  • Country: XW[44]

  • Began / founded: 2013-07-01[45]

  • MusicBrainz ID: fe75b72e-8737-4506-92e6-15ee9b19f574[46]

Body

Founding

Penguin Random House's founder is recorded as Markus Dohle[8]. Recorded inception include July 1, 2013[47] and 2013-05-28[48]. Its location of formation is recorded as New York City[49].

Leadership

Penguin Random House's chief executive officer is recorded as Markus Dohle[12].

Operations

Penguin Random House's headquarters location is recorded as New York City[11]. Its parent organization or unit is recorded as Bertelsmann[50]. Subsidiaries include Tundra Books[13], a publishing house[51], in Canada[52], founded in 1967[53], headquartered in Toronto[54]; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group[14], a publishing house[55]; Penguin India[15], a publishing house[56], in India[57], founded in 1985[58], headquartered in Noida[59]; Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial[16], a book publisher[60], in Spain[61], founded in 2013[62], headquartered in Barcelona[63]; Random House of Canada[17], a publishing house[64], in Canada[65], founded in 1944[66]; and Arrow Books[18], an imprint[67], founded in 1953[68].

Industry

Penguin Random House's industry is recorded as publishing[69].

Ownership

Penguin Random House is owned by Bertelsmann[10].

Why It Matters

Penguin Random House ranks in the top 0.96% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,213 views/month, #283 of 29,529).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[70]

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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [70] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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