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
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
*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
Círculo de Leitores
Der Club
Donauland
ECI
France Loisirs
Quebec Loisirs
The BookClub
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
**Random House Films
**Random House Television
*Buzzr
*Naked Television
**Naked West
*Talkback
*Thames
*Castlefield
*Moskito Television
*Rakett
*Wild Blue Media
*One Big Happy Family
*Baluba
*Monster Media AS
*Dr Pluto Films
*Blu A/S
*No Pictures Please
*Label1
*Strong Productions
*Production House
*Novemberfilm
*Wildside
*Eureka Productions
*The Apartment Pictures
*Blue Circle
*Full Fat TV
*Kwaï
*Miso Film
*UFA Film & TV Productions
**UFA Fiction
**UFA Serial Drama
**UFA Show & Factual
**UFA Documentary
*Abot Hameiri Communication Ltd.
*Easy Tiger
*Wavy
*Fremantle Australia
*Dancing Ledge Productions
*Man Alive Entertainment
*Grillifilms
*Playroom
*Strix Television
*The Immigrant
*Euston Films
*Fiction Valley
*Element Pictures
**Light House Cinema
***Road House Cinema
**Pálás Cinema
**Volta
**Element Pictures Distribution
Radio
*104.6 RTL
*Antenne Bayern
*Antenne Mecklenburg
*Antenne Thueringen
*Bel RTL
*Radio Contact
*RTL Radio Letzebuerg
*Eldoradio
*Europa FM
*Fun Radio
*Hit-Radio Antenne
*Melodia FM
*Oldie 95
*Onda Cero
*Radio Hamburg
*Radio NRW
*Radio Ton
*RTL
*RTL 2
*RTL Radio - Deutschlands Hit-Radio
Television
*Atresmedia
**Antena 3
**Atreseries
**LaSexta
**Neox
**Nova
**Mega
**Atresmedia Cine
**Atresmedia Studios
*Groupe M6
**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
*RTL Deutschland
**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
**Cool TV
**Film+
**Muzsika TV
**RTL Gold
**RTL II
**RTL Klub
**RTL+
**Sorozat+
*RTL Nederland
**RTL 4
**RTL 5
**RTL 7
**RTL 8
**RTL Z
**RTL Telekids
**RTL Crime
**RTL Lounge
**RTL XL
*RTL Televizija
**RTL 2
**RTL Kockica
**RTL Croatia World
*RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg
**RTL Zwee

[Gruner + Jahr]

Magazines
*Europe
**Claudia
**Focus
**Mia
**Muy Interesante
**Naj
**National Geographic
**News
**Tele-Loisirs
**Top Girl
**TV Times
*Germany
**art
**Brigitte
**Capital
**Eltern
**Essen & Trinken
**P.M.
**Schöner Wohnen
**Stern
Newspapers
*Sächsische Zeitung

[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
**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
***WH Allen
***Witness Books
**Penguin Random House Audio
***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
**Aguliar
**Alfaguara
**Ediciones B
***B de Bloke
***B de Books
***B de Bolsillo
***B Comic
**Ediciones Cliper
***Cliper+
**Ediciones Salamandra
**Companhia das Letras
**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
*Transworld Ireland
*Verlasgsgruppe Penguin Random House
**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
**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
**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

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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
Virgin Music

Labels

50/50 Global Muzik Inc and 50/50 Global EDM
Albert Music
Broken Bow Records
Disques Dreyfus
Double U Records
Dutchess Music
The Echo Label
The End Records
Hal David
Infectious Records
Mute Records
Noise Records
Neon Nation Corporation
Paracadute
RAM Records
Rise Records
Rhythm Nation
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 - merged with Naked in 2020
Blue Rider Press
EVA Entertainment
Fontaram Productions
Hare & Tortoise
Newman Street
Razorbill - folded into Putnum Children's Books