Random House Mondadori Is Renamed Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Since yesterday, Nov 4, Penguin Random House's Spanish-language publishers have been renamed Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, replacing the previous name Random House Mondadori. This name change reflects two major corporate initiatives undertaken in the past twelve months: First, in November 2012, parent company Bertelsmann acquired full ownership of Random House Mondadori. Second, in July of this year, the founding of Penguin Random House was concluded, uniting Penguin and Random House's publishing activities in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, India, China, South Africa, as well as the Spanish-language publishers in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, and Chile.
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial will maintain its present organizational structure for its publishing divisions in Spain and Latin America, under the leadership of Núria Cabutí, who has been CEO since 2010, Penguin Random House announced in a press release. The identity and direction of its respective publishing programs, together with its unwavering commitment to making its authors’ works available to the widest possible audience, will also remain unchanged.
The company's Mondadori imprint also will have a name change, and will be known as Literatura Random House from now on. It will continue to publish the same range of subjects and authors as before.
In announcing the company’s name change, Núria Cabutí said: "Today we begin our life as Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, bringing with us the fantastic legacy of our history in Spanish-language publishing and the pride of being part of the first truly global trade publishing company. We will continue to publish with passion a wide array of authors, and our priority will be to continue to grow as both a print and digital publisher. Connecting authors and readers remains our essential mandate."
The group now encompasses the following publishers and imprints: Beascoa, Caballo de Troya, Collins, Conecta, Debate, Debolsillo, Electa, Fantascy, Grijalbo, Lumen, Nube de Tinta, Plaza & Janés, Random House, Reservoir Books, RHM Flash, Rosa dels Vents, and Sudamericana. They publish fiction and nonfiction books for adults and children in hardback, paperback, audio, and electronic formats through the following imprints. Among their best-known authors are several Nobel Prize laureates, among them this year’s laureate Alice Munro, and Gabriel García Márquez, J .M. Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk, V.S. Naipaul, Elfriede Jelinek, and Doris Lessing.
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