Egmont Group is a Danish media corporation founded and rooted in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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16 Facts About Egmont Group
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The business area of Egmont has traditionally been magazine publishing but has over the years evolved to comprise mass media generally.
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Egmont Group was founded by Egmont Harald Petersen in 1878 as a one-man printing business, but soon became a magazine business.
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Egmont Group was renamed Gutenberghus in 1914, a name it kept until 1992.
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In 1991, Egmont Group was co-founder of the Norwegian television channel TV 2, before buying it outright in 2012.
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In 1998 Egmont Group acquired the children's book catalogue of Reed Elsevier.
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The media group operates movie theatres and TV stations, and the Egmont name is behind interactive games, game consoles, music and a wide range of digital media.
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Egmont Group publishes media in more than 30 countries, has over 5,300 employees and generated revenue amounting to over €2 billion in 2021.
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On 1 May 2020, Egmont Group completed the sale of three of its publishers to HarperCollins.
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Egmont Group UK publishes books and magazines for children in the United Kingdom.
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Egmont Group has a number of young adult fiction, award-winners, classics and epic tales.
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Classic stories published by Egmont Group UK include The Velveteen Rabbit, The Little Prince and The Wind in the Willows.
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Illustrators who are published by Egmont include Helen Oxenbury, Shirley Hughes, Jim Field, Rob Biddulph, Steven Lenton, Alex T Smith and Colin and Jacqui Hawkins.
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Egmont Group offer a range of Personalised books through their website.
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In 1991, Egmont Group purchased the Fleetway arm of IPC Media in the UK from a company owned by Robert Maxwell, and merged it with their existing comics publishing division, London Editions, and thus became Britain's largest comic book publisher.
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