Random House
Logo with the 2014 Penguin Random House wordmark | |
| Company type | Division |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1927 |
| Founders | Bennett Cerf, Donald Klopfer |
| Headquarters | Random House Tower, 1745 Broadway, , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Gina Centrello (president and publisher, The Random House Publishing Group) Barbara Marcus (president and publisher, Random House Children's Books) Nihar Malaviya (COO, Random House, Inc.) |
| Products | Books |
| Revenue | €2.142 billion (2012) |
Number of employees | 97,104 (as of September 30, 2020) |
| Parent | RCA (1965–1980) Advance Publications (1980–1998) Bertelsmann (1998–present) |
| Website | randomhousebooks.com |
Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the following decades, a series of acquisitions made it into one of the largest publishers in the United States. In 2013, it was merged with Penguin Group to form Penguin Random House, which is owned by the Germany-based media conglomerate Bertelsmann. Penguin Random House uses its brand for Random House Publishing Group and Random House Children's Books, as well as several imprints.