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16 unusual facts about Bertelsmann


Adrian Geiges

He became the CEO of the Chinese subsidiary of the German publisher Bertelsmann.

Albert Frère

He actively promoted international consolidation of the sectors in which he was involved, selling Banque Bruxelles Lambert to ING Group, Royale Belge to Axa, Tractebel to Suez, Petrofina to Total S.A., and RTL to Bertelsmann.

Barry Weiss

When Calder sought to retire from the business and sold Zomba to Bertelsmann, Weiss was appointed head of the resultant Zomba Label Group in 2004.

Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century

The Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century is a list of books compiled in 1999 by Literaturhaus München and Bertelsmann, in which 99 prominent German authors, literary critics, and scholars of German ranked the most significant German-language novels of the twentieth century.

Bodil Mårtensson

Most of her crime novels have been successfully translated into German and published by Bertelsmann.

CDNow

By 2000, CDNow downsized to about 400 employees, and was eventually bought by Bertelsmann.

Clive Calder

In 2002 he sold Zomba for US$2.74 billion to the German-based media group Bertelsmann.

DIC Entertainment

It was founded in 1971 as DIC Audiovisuel by Frenchman Jean Chalopin in Paris, as a subsidiary of RTL Group (RTL), Europe's leading entertainment company, which today, is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

Ellis Cousens

Previously Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Bookspan, a Bertelsmann AG and Time Warner Inc. joint venture, from March 2000; Vice President, Finance and Strategic Planning, of Bertelsmann AG from March 1999; Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of BOL.com, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, from August 1998).

Francisco Rico Manrique

He currently oversees the Classical Library series (started by Editorial Crítica and now a part of "Reader's Circle", a division of Bertelsmann) following guidelines from the Centro para la Edición de los Clásicos Españoles, which Rico began and helped to develop.

Gaelen Foley

In that time she wrote four manuscripts before her fifth one was picked up by the publishing house, Bertelsmann.

Neltje Blanchan

Nellie's grandson Nelson Doubleday Jr. was president of the Doubleday publishing company from 1978–1986, when he sold it to the Bertelsmann group from Germany.

Paul Desmarais

In addition, he owns about 15% of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, a Belgian holding company, which in 2001 acquired a 25% interest in the German media company Bertelsmann, whose subsidiaries include BMG and Random House (the German company Bertelsmann bought the 25% back in July 2006).

Random House Tower

In looking to expand its headquarters, Random House had originally planned to build a tower at 45th and Broadway across from its parent company Bertelsmann's headquarters at 1540 Broadway with a neon-lighted Skyway across 45th Street connecting them.

Shahrzad Rafati

In 2013, Shahrzad also closed a strategic partnership and investment with RTL Group, Europe's largest media conglomerate, and a unit of Bertelsmann, one of the world’s largest media companies.

Suzanne Nossel

After leaving the United Nations, she worked as vice-president of U.S. Business Development for Bertelsmann (2001–05).


CrowdTwist

This cycle was led by Softbank Capital and Fairhaven Capital with participation from KBS+P Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments and several individual investors.

Ilija Trojanow

Among other awards he received the Bertelsmann Literature Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann competition in Klagenfurt in 1995, the Marburg Literature Prize in 1996, the Thomas Valentin Prize in 1997, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize in 2000 and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the category of fiction for his novel "Der Weltensammler" (The Collector of Worlds) in 2006.

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Sonny Mehta, editor-in-chief and chairman of Bertelsmann AG's Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, says;

Intajour

It currently consists of the following members: Peter Kloeppel (RTL Television), Georg Mascolo (journalist), Thomas Osterkorn (STERN), Leonhard Ottinger (RTL School of Journalism for TV and Multimedia), Karin Schlautmann (Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA) and Andreas Wolfers (Henri-Nannen School of Journalism).

Klaus L. Wübbenhorst

From 1984 to 1991 he served as a management employee for the transnational media company Bertelsmann, based in Gütersloh.

Penguin Random House

It was formed on July 1, 2013, upon the completion of an agreement between Bertelsmann and Pearson to merge their respective trade publishing companies, Random House and Penguin, with the parent companies owning 53% and 47%, respectively.

Penguin Random House is a company formed from the merger between the book publishers Random House, owned by Bertelsmann, and Penguin Group, owned by Pearson PLC.

Peter A. Bruck

Private industry clients included leading companies in the broadcasting industry (CBC, Ottawa; ORF, Vienna; YTV, Toronto) the print media (VÖZ, Vienna; Bertelsmann, Gütersloh; Ringier,Zurich; FAZ, Frankfurt; SN, Salzburg, ZVB-Mediaprint, Vienna) the energy and telecommunication sector (Verbund, Vienna; Telekom Austria, Vienna).

Pop-up maps

The Unfolds Pop-Up format was licensed in custom formats by clients such as Walt Disney Company, Warner Brothers, Museum of Modern Art, Rand McNally, National Park Service, Bertelsmann, TED (conference), BMW, Pfizer, Marvel Entertainment, MTV Books and Berlitz Corporation among others.

Thomas Middelhoff

In 1986 he moved to Bertelsmann, a multinational media corporation based in Germany, as assistant manager of the graphic firm in Gütersloh.