16 Facts About Egmont Publishing

The business area of Egmont has traditionally been magazine publishing but has over the years evolved to comprise mass media generally.

Egmont Publishing Group was founded by Egmont Publishing Harald Petersen in 1878 as a one-man printing business, but soon became a magazine business.

Egmont Publishing was renamed Gutenberghus in 1914, a name it kept until 1992.

In 1991, Egmont Publishing was co-founder of the Norwegian television channel TV 2, before buying it outright in 2012.

In 1998 Egmont Publishing acquired the children's book catalogue of Reed Elsevier.

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Egmont Publishing has a number of local country branches: Australia, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine and United Kingdom.

Egmont Publishing is one of Scandinavia's leading media groups producing weeklies, magazines, comics, books, educational materials, activity products, movies and TV programs.

The media group operates movie theatres and TV stations, and the Egmont Publishing name is behind interactive games, game consoles, music and a wide range of digital media.

Egmont Publishing publishes media in more than 30 countries, has over 5,300 employees and generated revenue amounting to over €2 billion in 2021.

On 1 May 2020, Egmont Publishing completed the sale of three of its publishers to HarperCollins.

Egmont Publishing UK publishes books and magazines for children in the United Kingdom.

Egmont Publishing has a number of young adult fiction, award-winners, classics and epic tales.

Classic stories published by Egmont Publishing UK include The Velveteen Rabbit, The Little Prince and The Wind in the Willows.

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.

Egmont Publishing offer a range of Personalised books through their website.

In 1991, Egmont 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.