Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH

Five shareholders are currently on record for Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH, held on the Gesellschafterliste (shareholder list), filed under §40 of the GmbHG. The largest of these is Reinhard Mohn GmbH, holding 74.9% — a majority holding — followed by Reinhard Mohn GmbH at 25%; the remaining 3 shareholders shown hold smaller stakes. Because every shareholder shown is a company rather than an individual, the ownership chain continues above this level, and no beneficial owner can be established from this filing alone.

Every shareholder recorded for Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH is itself a company rather than a natural person, so no Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) is identified at this level; establishing one would require tracing the ownership of each shareholding company in turn.

5 shareholders are shown on record for Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH.

Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH's registration number is HRB 2810 Gütersloh, filed with Handelsregister (Commercial Register) in Germany. Its current status on the register is active.

Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH's status on Handelsregister (Commercial Register) is listed as active.

The registered address on file for Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH is München, Germany.

One of the 5 officer records shown for Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH is a current appointment, filed with Handelsregister (Commercial Register). Grusche Juncker serves as Geschäftsführer (managing director). The remaining 4 records shown (Georg Reuchlein-Diehl, Tilo Eckardt and 2 others) are former appointments that have since been resigned. Management authority at Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH sits with these individuals, not with shareholders, who are covered separately and hold ownership rather than control.

Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH sits 4 levels below its ultimate parent, Bertelsmann Stiftung, registered in Germany. 4 subsidiaries are recorded beneath it, across 2 jurisdictions. Those 4 subsidiaries span Germany, United Kingdom jurisdictions, though this list should not be read as complete — subsidiaries only become visible here where shareholder data has actually been filed with a register, so holdings in jurisdictions without that filing simply won't appear. One of the 4 go a level deeper still, with its own further subsidiaries recorded beneath it — additional ownership layers this view doesn't expand.

This profile reflects a point-in-time snapshot from Handelsregister (Commercial Register). Zavia's monitoring API can track changes to Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH's registered shareholders, officers, and group structure going forward, flagging updates as they're filed rather than requiring a manual recheck.

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This record is sourced directly from Handelsregister (Commercial Register) and was last synced on 25 September 2026.