Penguin Random House
British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company
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| July 2024 | Penguin Random House announced plans to acquire comic book publisher Boom! Studios. |
| 2023 | Inklore is founded to publish manga, manhwa, manhua, webcomics adaptations, and light novels. |
| June 1 2023 | Commenced direct market distribution for Dark Horse Comics |
| November 22 2022 | The proposed Simon & Schuster acquisition deal formally collapsed. |
| November 21 2022 | Penguin Random House officially abandoned the Simon & Schuster acquisition deal and agreed to pay a $200 million termination fee. |
| October 31 2022 | The U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit against the Simon & Schuster acquisition succeeded. |
| June 1 2022 | Started direct market distribution for IDW Publishing |
| November 2 2021 | The US Justice Department filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to block Penguin Random House's proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster. |
| October 1 2021 | Began direct market distribution for Marvel Comics |
| November 25 2020 | Penguin Random House agreed to purchase Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS for $2.175 billion. |
| June 2020 | Penguin Random House joined a group of publishers in suing the Internet Archive over e-book copyright infringement. |
| April 2 2020 | The sale of Pearson's stake to Bertelsmann was completed, making Penguin Random House a wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann. |
| 2019 | Penguin Random House acquired Little Tiger Group, a British children's book publisher, adding it to Random House Children's Books. |
| December 18 2019 | Bertelsmann became the sole owner of Penguin Random House, acquiring Pearson PLC's remaining 47% stake. |
| 2018 | Random House Graphic imprint established to publish graphic novels. |
| 2018 | Crown Publishing Group was combined with the main Random House Publishing Group, further consolidating its publishing operations. |
| July 11 2017 | Pearson sold 22% of its stake in Penguin Random House to Bertelsmann, reducing its holding to 25%. |
| 2016 | One World is relaunched. |
| July 2016 | Fremantle took over Random House Studios, signing a deal with Chinese Meridian Entertainment for theatrical productions and moving unscripted programs from Jupiter Entertainment in-house. |
| 2015 | Penguin Verlag was founded for the German market as part of the Verlagsgruppe Random House. |
| November 2015 | Pearson announced its plan to rebrand and focus on its education division. |
| 2014 | Tim Duggan Books was founded as a new imprint within Crown Publishing Group. |
| 2014 | Concluded production of 'Heartland Table' for Food Network. |
| September 2014 | Random House Studio signed a first-look production deal with Universal Pictures for developing and filming projects based on Penguin Random House books. |
| September 24 2014 | Chef Amy Thielen's companion book 'The New Midwestern Table' was published by Clarkson Potter. |
| September 14 2014 | Heartland Table, RH TV's first co-production with Tavola Productions, premiered on the Food Network. |
| 2013 | Began production of 'Heartland Table' for Food Network, running until 2014. |
| December 2013 | A federal judge approved a settlement for the antitrust claims, with Penguin and other publishers paying into a fund for customers who overpaid for books. |
| July 29 2013 | Penguin Random House relaunched Book Country, Penguin's online writing community. |
| July 1 2013 | Merger between Penguin and Random House was finalized, creating Penguin Random House with Bertelsmann owning 53% and Pearson PLC owning 47%. |
| July 1 2013 | RHS's parent company merged with Penguin to form Penguin Random House. |
| April 5 2013 | The European Union approved the Penguin Random House merger. |
| February 2013 | Focus Features and Random House Studio partnered for film rights and production of Jo Baker's novel 'Longbourn'. |
| 2012 | Produced 'Lay the Favorite' in collaboration with Likely Story, Emmett/Furla Films, and The Weinstein Company. |
| December 14 2012 | Takeda Random House Japan filed for bankruptcy. |
| November 2012 | Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial ended its joint venture with Mondadori. |
| October 2012 | Bertelsmann entered into talks with Pearson plc to potentially combine Random House and Penguin Group publishing companies. |
| October 26 2012 | Pearson entered into merger talks with Bertelsmann to combine Penguin Group and Random House. |
| July 2012 | Random House announced the creation of Random House Studio (RHS) and Random House Television (RH TV), with Jeffrey Levine as Head of Television. |
| April 11 2012 | The United States Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit (United States v. Apple Inc.) against Penguin and other major publishers for alleged e-book price-fixing. |
| January 2012 | Random House of Canada became the sole owner of McClelland & Stewart. |
| 2011 | Penguin Group USA launched Book Country, an online writing and publishing community. |
| 2011 | Film adaptation of 'One Day' was produced by Random House Studio. |
| October 2011 | Random House Films made a deal to create a movie franchise of Ross Macdonald's detective Lew Archer with Joel Silver and Warner Bros. |
| April 2010 | Random House divested their ownership in Random House Korea. Random House Australia managing director Margie Seale was assigned to explore business opportunities in Asia. |
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