# 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