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Bertelsmann Group: Holdings

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  1. Holdings
    1. Books/Publishing
    2. Holdings
    3. Books/Publishing
    4. Broadcasting

    5. Television Production
    6. Gruner & Jahr Magazines
    7. Online and Multimedia services
    8. Information Technology Services
    9. Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG)
    10. CD Pressing
    11. Newspapers

Holdings

This listing is indicative only.

Books/Publishing

General Interest imprints and book clubs -

  • Bantam Doubleday Dell group
  • Bantam Books
  • Doubleday
  • Dell - Delacorte
  • Broadway Books
  • Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
  • Bantam Doubleday Audio
  • Bantam Books Canada
  • Doubleday Canada
  • Transworld Publishers (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
  • Doubleday Direct (direct marketing book operations)
  • Literary Guild

Holdings

This listing is indicative only.

Books/Publishing

General Interest imprints and book clubs -

  • Bantam Doubleday Dell group
  • Bantam Books
  • Doubleday
  • Dell - Delacorte
  • Broadway Books
  • Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
  • Bantam Doubleday Audio
  • Bantam Books Canada
  • Doubleday Canada
  • Transworld Publishers (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
  • Doubleday Direct (direct marketing book operations)
  • Literary Guild
  • Doubleday Book Club
  • Crossings
  • Random House
  • Random House Trade Publishing Group
  • Random House Information Publishing Group
  • Knopf Publishing Group
  • Crown Publishing Group
  • Ballantine Publishing Group
  • Random House Children's Publishing
  • Random House Audio
  • Random House Value Publishing
  • Fodors Travel Publications
  • Random House New Media
  • Random House Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa
  • Barrie & Jenkins
  • Bodley Head
  • Jonathan Cape
  • Century
  • Chatto & Windus
  • Doubleday
  • Ebury Press
  • Expert Books
  • Hutchinson
  • Julia MacRae
  • Partridge
  • Stanley Paul
  • Pimlico
  • Secker & Warburg
  • Sinclair Stevenson
  • Tellastory
  • Transworld
  • Yellow Jersey
  • Arrow
  • Black Swan
  • Corgi
  • Dell
  • Fodor's
  • Mandarin
  • Minerva
  • Red Fox
  • Sweet Valley
  • Vermilion
  • Vintage

Bertelsmann Publishing Group -

  • Bee Book - German educational and informational CD-ROM imprints
  • Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag - German encyclopedias
  • Donauland - Austrian book and music club
  • Science Fiction Book Club
  • Bold Type

Online Book Sales

  • barnesandnoble.com - joint venture with Barnes & Noble
  • BOL

Trade Publications

  • ABI Building Data
  • AZ Bertelsmann - direct marketing service provider
  • BauNetz - German online service for architects
  • Entertainment Media Verlag - publishes in fields of movies, television, cinema
  • ICW Publications - construction industry information provider
  • MMV Medizin Verlag - German weekly medical magazine
  • Wila Verlag - insurance & legal specialist publisher

BertelsmannSpringer Verlag (86.5%) academic and professional magazine and specialist book publisher (unrelated to the Axel Springer group) was sold to Cinven and Candover in 2003, merged with Kluwer Academic Publishers and renamed Springer Science+Business Media. It included -

  • investment in US Key Curriculum
  • Springer Science
  • Princeton Architectural Press
  • Platow
  • Birkhauser
  • Verkehr Online - online service for German road haulage industry
  • Heinrich Vogel Verlag - transportation publisher
  • Bauerverlag
  • SpringerLink
  • Arzte Zeitung
  • Heinrich Vogel
  • Gabler/Vieweg/Westdeutscher Verlag - publishes in fields of technology/science

Broadcasting

Bertelsmann controls RTL (the former CLT-UFA). RTL is a major European television/radio broadcaster and content producer. Its units include -

Germany

  • RTL
  • RTL-2 (34.5%)
  • SUPER RTL (50% with Disney)
  • Premiere World (formerly 5% with Kirch)
  • VOX
  • RTL Radio (Germany)

UK

  • Channel 5

France

  • FUN TV
  • M6
  • Multivision
  • Teva

Netherlands

  • RTL - 4
  • RTL - 5
  • RTL - 9
  • RTL - Tele Letzebuerg
  • RTL Klub (Hungary)

Television Production

  • UFA Film & TV Production
  • Trebitsch Production
  • Delux Productions (Luxembourg)
  • Cinevideo (Canada)
  • Holland Media House (Netherlands)
  • First Choice (UK)

Gruner & Jahr Magazines

Bertelsmann now has a 75% stake in Gruner + Jahr, the German-based magazine group

Germany

  • Brigitte
  • Capital
  • Eltern
  • Frau im Spiegel
  • Schoener Wohnen
  • Der Spiegel (25%)
  • Flora
  • Geo
  • Geo Saison
  • Oskar's
  • P.M.
  • Stern
  • Tip
  • TV Today

North America

  • American Homestyle
  • Child
  • Family Circle (majority owner)
  • Fitness
  • McCall's (majority owner)
  • Parents (majority owner)
  • YM Magazines (majority owner)

Supplements

  • Computer & Co (computer magazine)
  • rtv (television programming magazine)

Online and Multimedia services

  • AOL Europe (50% with AOL)
  • AOL Germany (45% with AOL)
  • AOL France (50% with AOL)
  • bs medic
  • Sport 1
  • Lycos Europe
  • CD Now
  • Bertelsmann Interactive Studios

Information Technology Services

  • Bertelsmann mediaSystems
  • Bertelsmann Corporate Information Systems
  • mediaWays
  • Pixelpark
  • Telemedia
  • Services
  • eps Bertelsmann
  • Mount Media - German media online service

Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG)

BMG North America (Record Labels and Clubs)

  • Arista Records
  • RCA and RCA Victor
  • BMG Classics
  • BMG Music Publishing
  • BMG Music Service
  • BMG Special Products
  • Windham Hill Group
  • Bugjuice
  • Peeps Republic
  • Twang This!

International

  • BMG Austria, Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, United Kingdom
  • BMG Germany Interactive
  • BMG Germany Studios
  • BMG Germany Video

CD Pressing

Sonopress - CD manufacturers with locations in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa

Newspapers

Holdings across Central Europe, including Nepszahadsag, former Communist Party central organ in Budapest