List of assets owned by Bertelsmann

This is a list of assets owned by German conglomerate Bertelsmann.

Arvato

• Mohn Media Gruppe
• Prinovis - joint-venture with Axel Springer and Gruner + Jahr
• Sonopress in Germany, North America, Latin America, South Africa, Australia
• Arvato Services
• Arvato Systems
• Arvato Mobile
• Arvato Finances
• Empolis

Bertelsmann Printing Group

• AZ Direct
• Berryville Graphics
• Campaign
• Coral Graphics
• DeutschlandCard
• GGP Media
• MBS Nürnberg
• Mohn Media
• Offset Paperback Manufacturers (OPM)
• Prinovis
• rtv media group
• Sonopress
• Vogel Druck

Direct Group

• Bertelsmann BookClub (China)
• Bertrand (Portugal)
• BMG Music Service
• BOL China
• BOL Great Britain
• BCA Great Britain
• BDMI
• Bookspan (United States) (50%)
• Architects & Designers Book Service
• Behavioral Science Book Club
• Black Expressions
• Book-of-the-Month Club
• Children's Book-of-the-Month Club
• Computer Books Direct
• Country Homes & Gardens
• Crafter's Choice
• Discovery Channel Book Club
• Doubleday Book Club
• Doubleday Large Print
• Early Childhood Teachers Club
• Equestrian
• The Good Cook
• History Book Club
• Intermediate & Middle Grades Book Club
• The Library of Speech-Language Pathology
• The Literary Guild
• The Military Book Club
• Mystery Guild
• One Spirit
• Outdoorsman's Edge
• Nurse's Book Society
• Primary Teachers' Book Club
• Reader's Subscription
• Rhapsody
• Scientific American Book Club
• Science Fiction Book Club
• Circulo de Lectores (Spain)
• Círculo de Leitores (Portugal)
• Der Club (Germany)
• Donauland (Austria)
• ECI (Netherlands)
• France Loisirs (France)
• Quebec Loisirs (Canada)
• The BookClub (Korea)
• CDnow

RTL Group (75.1%)

• Internet
• Atresplayer
• Flooxer
• M6
• RTL.de
• RTL.nl
• Videoland.nl
• sport.de
• turbo.fr
• Programming and Distribution
• Fremantle
• Original Productions
• Amygdala Music
• Random House Studio (transferred from Penguin Random House in 2016)
• Random House Films
• Random House Television
• Buzzr
• Naked Television (United Kingdom)
• Naked West
• Talkback (United Kingdom)
• Thames (United Kingdom)
• Castlefield (United Kingdom)
• Moskito Television (Finland)
• Rakett (Norway)
• Wild Blue Media (United Kingdom)
• One Big Happy Family (Norway)
• Baluba (Sweden)
• Monster Media AS (Norway)
• Dr Pluto Films (United Kingdom)
• Blu A/S (Denmark)
• No Pictures Please (Netherlands)
• Label1 (United Kingdom)
• Strong Productions (Denmark)
• Production House (Finland)
• Novemberfilm (Norway)
• Wildside (Italy)
• Eureka Productions (Australia)
• The Apartment Pictures (Italy)
• Blue Circle (Netherlands)
• Full Fat TV (United Kingdom)
• Kwaï (France)
• Miso Film (Denmark)
• UFA Film & TV Productions (Germany)
• UFA Fiction
• UFA Serial Drama
• UFA Show & Factual
• UFA Documentary
• Abot Hameiri Communication Ltd. (Israel)
• Easy Tiger (Australia)
• Wavy (Italy)
• Fremantle Australia
• Dancing Ledge Productions (United Kingdom)
• Man Alive Entertainment (United Kingdom)
• Grillifilms (Finland)
• Playroom (Norway)
• Strix Television (Sweden/Norway/Netherlands/Belgium)
• The Immigrant (United States/Spain/Latin America)
• Euston Films (United Kingdom)
• Fiction Valley (Netherlands)
• Element Pictures (Republic of Ireland)
• Light House Cinema (Dublin)
• Road House Cinema
• Pálás Cinema (Galway)
• Volta (Irish film VOD service)
• Element Pictures Distribution
• Radio
• 104.6 RTL (Berlin)
• Antenne Bayern (Germany)
• Antenne Mecklenburg (Germany)
• Antenne Thueringen (Germany)
• Bel RTL (Belgium)
• Radio Contact (Belgium)
• RTL Radio Letzebuerg (Luxembourg)
• Eldoradio (Luxembourg)
• Europa FM (Spain)
• Fun Radio (France)
• Hit-Radio Antenne (Germany)
• Melodia FM (Spain)
• Oldie 95 (Hamburg)
• Onda Cero (Spain)
• Radio Hamburg (Hamburg)
• Radio NRW (Germany)
• Radio Ton (Germany)
• RTL (France)
• RTL 2 (France)
• RTL Radio - Deutschlands Hit-Radio (Germany, Belgium, northern France)
• Television
• Atresmedia (Spain)
• Antena 3
• Atreseries
• LaSexta
• Neox
• Nova
• Mega
• Atresmedia Cine
• Atresmedia Studios
• Groupe M6 (France)
• M6
• W9
• 6ter
• Paris Première
• Téva
• M6 Music
• Gulli
• Canal J
• Tiji
• FC Girondins de Bordeaux
• Série Club
• M6 Films
• Groupe MCM
• MCM
• MCM Top
• RFM TV
• Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland (Germany)
• n-tv
• RTL Television
• RTLplus
• RTL Crime (German TV channel)
• RTL Living
• RTL Passion
• RTL Zwei
• Super RTL
• Toggo Plus
• GEO Television
• Nitro
• VOX
• RTL Magyarország (Hungary)
• Cool TV
• Film+
• Muzsika TV
• RTL Gold
• RTL II
• RTL Klub
• RTL+
• Sorozat+
• RTL Nederland (The Netherlands)
• RTL 4
• RTL 5
• RTL 7
• RTL 8
• RTL Z
• RTL Telekids
• RTL Crime
• RTL Lounge
• RTL XL
• RTL Televizija (Croatia)
• RTL 2
• RTL Kockica
• RTL Croatia World
• RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg
• RTL Zwee

Gruner + Jahr

• Magazines
• Europe
• Claudia (Poland)
• Focus (Italy) (50%)
• Mia (Spain)
• Muy Interesante (Spain)
• Naj (Poland)
• National Geographic (Poland)
• News (Austria)(56.03%)
• Tele-Loisirs (France)
• Top Girl (Italy)
• TV Times (Austria) (56.03%)
• Germany
• art
• Brigitte
• Capital
• Eltern
• Essen & Trinken
• P.M.
• Schöner Wohnen
• Stern
• Newspapers
• Sächsische Zeitung (60%)

Penguin Random House

• Dorling Kindersley Limited
• Alpha Books
• DK Eyewitness Travel
• Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Alfred A. Knopf
• Anchor Books
• Black Swan
• Corgi
• Doubleday
• Everyman's Library
• Nan A. Talese
• Pantheon
• Schocken
• Vintage Books
• Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• Vintage Español
• Penguin Publishing Group
• Avery Publishing
• Berkley Books
• Ace Books
• Jove Books
• New American Library
• Plume
• Obsidian
• Onyx
• Roc Books
• Signet Books
• Signet Classics
• Signet Fiction
• Topaz
• DAW
• Dutton
• Family Tree Books
• G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Amy Enborne
• Marian Wood
• Coward-McCann
• Krause Publications
• Impact Books
• Interweave
• North Light Books
• Pelican Books
• Penguin Books
• Awa Press
• Michael Joseph
• Penguin General
• Fig Tree Books
• Hamish Hamilton
• Penguin Life
• Penguin Business
• Sandycove Books
• Viking Books UK
• Penguin Press
• Allen Lane Books
• Particular Books
• Pelican Books
• Penguin Classics
• Pamela Dorman Books
• Popular Woodworking Books
• Portfolio
• Riverhead Books
• Sentinel
• Square Peg
• TarcherPerigee
• Transworld Publishers
• Viking Press
• Vintage Classics
• Vintage Paperback
• Writer's Digest Books
• Yellow Jersey
• Penguin Random House Digital Publishing Group
• Books on Tape
• Listening Library
• Living Language
• Penguin Random House Audio Publishing
• Penguin Random House Puzzles & Games
• Penguin Audio
• Random House Audio
• Random House Large Print
• Random House Reference
• Sasquatch Books
• Little Bigfoot
• Spruce Books
• Penguin Random House International
• Zahar
• Penguin Random House Australia
• Penguin Books Australia
• Penguin Random House Canada
• Anchor Canada
• Appetite by Random House
• Bond Street Books
• Doubleday Canada
• Hamish Hamilton Canada
• Knopf Canada
• McClelland & Stewart
• Douglas Gibson Books
• Emblem Books
• New Canadian Library
• Tundra Books
• Penguin Canada
• Penguin Teen
• Puffin Canada
• Random House Canada
• Signal
• Strange Light
• Viking Canada
• Vintage Canada
• Penguin Random House Group (UK)
• Cornerstone Publishing
• Arrow
• Young Arrow
• Century
• Del Rey UK
• Hutchinson
• Random House UK
• William Heinemann
• #Merky Books
• Random House Business
• Windmill
• Ebury Publishing
• BBC Books
• Ebury Press
• Ebury Edge
• Pop Press
• Rider
• Vermilion
• Virgin Books (90%)
• WH Allen
• Witness Books
• Penguin Random House Audio (UK)
• BBC Audio
• The Penguin Podcast
• Vintage Publishing UK
• The Bodley Head
• Chatto & Windus
• Harvill Secker
• Hogarth Press
• Jonathan Cape
• Square Peg
• Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (Spain/Portugal/Latin America)
• Aguliar
• Alfaguara
• Ediciones B
• B de Bloke
• B de Books
• B de Bolsillo
• B Comic
• Ediciones Cliper
• Cliper+
• Ediciones Salamandra
• Companhia das Letras (70%)
• Editorial Bruguera
• Editorial Molino
• Editorial Sudamericana
• Editorial Grijabo
• Grupo Santillana
• Lumen
• Objetiva
• Penguin Clasicos
• Plaza & Janés
• Random Cómics
• Suma de Letras
• Taurus
• Penguin Random House India
• Duckbill Books
• Penguin Random House New Zealand
• Penguin Random House Struik (South Africa)
• Transworld Ireland
• Verlasgsgruppe Penguin Random House (Germany)
• Anaconda Verlag
• Ariston
• Arkana Verlag
• Bassermann
• Blanvalet
• Blessing Verlag
• Btb Verlag
• carl's books
• C. Bertelsmann Verlag
• Der Audio Verlag
• der Hörverlag
• Deutsche Verlag-Anstalt
• Diana Verlag
• Diederichs
• Goldmann
• Gütersloher Verlagshaus
• Heyne Publishing
• Heyne Hardcore
• Heyne fliegt
• Luchterhand Literaturverlag
• Manesse Verlag
• Pantheon Verlag
• Penguin JUNIOR
• Penguin Verlag
• Penhaligon
• Prestel Publishing
• Random House Audio (Germany)
• Reimann Verlag
• Siedler Verlag
• Südwest-Verlag
• Wunderraum
• Yuna Publishing
• Penguin Young Readers Group
• Dial Books for Young Readers
• Dutton Children's Books
• Firebird Books
• Frederick Warne & Co.
• G. P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
• Grosset & Dunlap
• Charter Books (Ace Charter)
• Bedtime Stories
• Junior Library
• Platt & Mutt
• Kathy Dawson Books
• Koklia
• Ladybird Books
• Nancy Paulsen Books
• Penguin Workshop
• Philomel Books
• Price Stern Sloan
• Puffin Books
• Razorbill
• Viking Children's Books
• Random House
• Crown Publishing Group
• Amphoto Books
• Broadway Books
• Clarkson Potter
• Convergent Books
• Crown
• Crown Archetype
• Crown Forum
• Currency
• Harmony Books
• Hogarth Press
• Image Catholic Books
• Multnomah
• Random House Books USA
• Rodale Books
• Ten Speed Press
• Lorena Jones Books
• Watson-Guptill
• Three Rivers Press
• Tim Duggan Books
• WaterBrook
• Multnomah
• Random House Publishing Group
• Ballantine Books
• Del Rey Books
• LucasBooks
• Bantam Books
• Bantam Press
• Spectra
• Dell Publishing
• Dial Press
• Loveswept & Flirt
• Modern Library
• One World
• Spiegel & Grau
• SPJ For Horgath
• Random House Children's Books
• Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Anne Schwartz Books
• Skylark
• Bluefire
• Crown Books for Young Readers
• Doubleday Children's Books
• Delacorte Press
• Dragonfly Books
• Ember
• Golden Books
• Laurel-Leaf Books
• Lee Wade
• Little Tiger Press
• The Princeton Review
• Random House Books for Young Readers
• Sylvan Learning
• Wendy Lamb Books
• Yearling Books

BMG

Music publishers

• Bug Music
• Crosstown Songs
• Cherry Lane Music Publishing
• Chrysalis Music Group
• Stage Three Music
• Evergreen Copyrights
• Famous Music UK
• R2M
• Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Select songwriters)
• Virgin Music

Labels

• 50/50 Global Muzik Inc and 50/50 Global EDM
• Albert Music
• Broken Bow Records
• Disques Dreyfus
• Double U Records (Founded by Jacob Whitesides)
• Dutchess Music (Founded by Fergie)
• The Echo Label
• The End Records
• Hal David
• Infectious Records
• Mute Records
• Noise Records
• Neon Nation Corporation
• Paracadute (Founded by OK GO)
• RAM Records
• Rise Records
• Rhythm Nation (Founded by Janet Jackson)
• S-Curve Records
• Sanctuary Records
• Sedona Recording Company
• Skint Records
• Strictly Rhythm
• Vagrant Records
• Victory Records
• Verse Music Group
• ZTT Records

Former assets

Divested

• BMG Interactive - sold to Take-Two Interactive in 2000
• Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited - sold to Northern & Shell in 2010
• FremantleMedia Kids & Family – sold to Boat Rocker Media in 2018
• Ludia - sold to Jam City in 2021
• REN TV
• RTL 7 - sold to TVN Group in 2002
• RTL-TVI
• Club RTL
• Plug RTL
• Universum Film GmbH - sold to Leonine Holding in 2019

Dormant or shuttered

• Boundless (United Kingdom) - merged with Naked in 2020
• Blue Rider Press
• EVA Entertainment
• Fontaram Productions (France)
• Hare & Tortoise (United Kingdom)
• Newman Street (United Kingdom)
• Razorbill - folded into Putnum Children's Books

See also

• Lists of corporate assets

References