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13,530Employees
€4,981 million Revenues
€704 millionOperating EBITDA adjusted
Figures refer to the 2025 fiscal year

Penguin Random House

Penguin Random House, the world’s largest trade book publisher, is dedicated to its mission to ignite a universal passion for reading by creating books for everyone. Each year, it publishes around 14,500 new works and sells more than 750 million print books, e-books, and audiobooks. With more than 350 imprints across six continents, Penguin Random House comprises adult fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and young adult literature, primarily in English, German, and Spanish. Penguin Random House’s publishing list includes more than 80 Nobel Prize laureates, 143 US Pulitzer Prize winners, and hundreds of the world’s most widely read and acclaimed authors. Penguin Random House is wholly owned by Bertelsmann.

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Penguin Random House's publishing programs offer an unrivalled mix of great literature, excellent entertainment, and highly regarded information and enlightenment written by more than 80 Nobel Laureates and hundreds of the world’s most widely read adult and children’s novelists and nonfiction authors such as Michelle Obama, Dan Brown, Bill Bryson, Tom Clancy, Patricia Cornwell, Clive Cussler, Roald Dahl, E.L. Doctorow and Ken Follett.

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Publishing Houses

Penguin Random House stands for the highest quality and a wide variety of reading experiences. The publisher presents a broad spectrum of editorial voices comprised of around 320 editorially independent imprints across six continents. These include publishing houses such as Doubleday, Viking and Alfred A. Knopf (USA); Ebury and Hamish Hamilton (UK); Plaza & Janés (Spain) and Sudamericana (Argentina).

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Claire von Schilling

Penguin Random House, Executive Vice President, Director Corporate Communications and Social Responsibility