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Penguin Books

London, United Kingdom · Founded 1935

Penguin Books was founded in 1935 by Richard Branson, Allen Lane, Jonathan Cape and Wren Howard, and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Key facts

Legal form
private company limited by shares

About

imprint of Penguine Random House

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In context

We hold 5 other book publishing companies founded in the 1930s. None has a closure on record yet.

Counted across this directory, from founding and closing years in public records. Medians cover only companies whose closure is recorded; a company with no closure date may have quietly ceased without the record catching it.

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