--- title: "PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LIMITED — Ownership Dossier" canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/6f73b607-29b7-5fe1-8d3d-176e7263e1e7 json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/6f73b607-29b7-5fe1-8d3d-176e7263e1e7 identifier: oo:GB-COH-00734421 jurisdiction: GB risk: Low source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph --- # PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LIMITED **Type:** Company **Jurisdiction:** [GB](https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions/gb) **Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-00734421` **Risk level:** Low **Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/6f73b607-29b7-5fe1-8d3d-176e7263e1e7 **Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/6f73b607-29b7-5fe1-8d3d-176e7263e1e7 ## Cross-source identity The same real-world entity, resolved across sources: - **Penguin Random House Limited** — source · `gb-coh:734421` — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/488c61c6-d5cd-49fd-9465-c7083276f853 - **PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LIMITED** — GLEIF · `lei:529900BESQNB2S6N5F59` — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/3c951d68-bdb7-5270-b03e-fed43557ef75 ## Ownership & control ### Owners / controllers - **PEARSON STRAND LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 50% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/6a197592-447a-5f0c-b0c1-8556cf227aca - **BERTELSMANN UK LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/3d96b56a-a381-54b5-be88-f5b69534e25e - **Bertelsmann Uk Limited** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/b927fa42-021d-438c-a248-6670ce841ab4 - **Pearson Prh Holdings Limited** (beneficial owner) — 37.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/30e83f29-943f-4086-8c94-574f138858b8 ### Holdings / subsidiaries - **PRH INTERNATIONAL SERVICES LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/bd573f21-7f98-520a-82e4-3e24d0a56f3e - **STRIPES PUBLISHING LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/6f2c414c-2404-5578-a1f9-2c17ad2803d0 - **FLANAME 6 LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/82b32c74-6774-5221-b88a-131aa683c787 - **THE RANDOM HOUSE GROUP LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/cc3d44d7-1958-5748-b0b1-2295220c82a2 - **FLANAME 3 LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/6f8a47ee-a7cb-538e-a5ba-0cde4e76ed02 - **HUGO'S LANGUAGE BOOKS LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/a588bf6a-1e37-5dd0-8a9e-ac5d596bf0f4 - **FLANAME 1 LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/fe4398ff-1a11-5e11-bea0-b253f6262e3a - **FLANAME 8 LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/ac08dc7f-9877-58d4-8cd4-acb065886ceb - **FLANAME 7 LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5b5bc51a-343d-5022-a3c2-126319f897e8 - **HAY HOUSE UK LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/316ed93e-f768-5a20-8336-ec540a925b5e - **DORLING KINDERSLEY LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/21deda18-04ae-586f-b562-88198689199b - **FLANAME 4 LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/fdad5159-aae9-5ea2-9e5a-8f59c8825100 …and **15** more subsidiaries/holdings. Resolve the full list with `get_dossier` on the WhiteIntel MCP (`npx -y @whiteintel/mcp-server`) or a one-off dossier — https://whiteintel.dev/pricing. ### UBO chain (walk to the ultimate owner) A **16-step** ownership/control chain to the ultimate beneficial owner is resolved for this entity. The full cited chain unlocks with a paid API key or a one-off dossier — https://whiteintel.dev/pricing. ## Company profile (live · UK Companies House) - **Company number:** `00734421` - **Status:** active - **Type:** ltd - **Incorporated:** 1962-09-05 - **Registered office:** One Embassy Gardens, 8 Viaduct Gardens, London, SW11 7BW, United Kingdom - **SIC:** 58110 ### Officers - MARTIN, Sinead Mary — secretary · appointed 2016-09-15 - GARDINER, Mark William — director · British · appointed 2020-04-01 - WELDON, Thomas Daryl — director · British · appointed 2020-04-01 - ENGLE, Cecily Julia — secretary · British · appointed 1995-11-24 · resigned 2000-07-28 - PEACOCK, Helena Caroline — secretary · British · appointed 2000-07-28 · resigned 2016-06-30 - WILLIAMS, Nigel John — secretary · British · resigned 1995-11-24 - ALBERTI-PEREZ, Milena — director · American · appointed 2015-07-01 · resigned 2017-12-31 - ATTENBOROUGH, Elizabeth Margaret — director · British · resigned 1995-09-15 - BRENNAN, Suzanne Margaret — director · British · appointed 2009-07-06 · resigned 2013-07-01 - BROWN, Marvin — director · American · resigned 1997-04-01 - CARSON, Peter Thomas Staheyeff — director · British · resigned 1997-12-31 - CLARKE, Roger Grenville Quinton — director · British · appointed 1996-01-18 · resigned 1999-01-31 - DOHLE, Markus Franz-Joseph — director · German · appointed 2013-07-01 · resigned 2020-04-01 - FALLON, John Joseph — director · British · appointed 2013-07-01 · resigned 2020-04-01 - FIELD, Peter — director · British · resigned 2012-12-31 - FLOYER, Sally Margaret Doris — director · British · appointed 1996-01-18 · resigned 2008-03-31 - FORBES WATSON, Anthony David — director · British · appointed 1996-05-09 · resigned 2005-02-28 - GLOVER, Trevor David — director · British · resigned 1995-11-24 - GOTZ, Thomas Andreas, Dr — director · German · appointed 2014-01-01 · resigned 2020-04-01 - GRANT, Robert Raymond — director · British · appointed 2020-04-01 · resigned 2024-09-16 ### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control) - [Bertelsmann Uk Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/b927fa42-021d-438c-a248-6670ce841ab4) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · England — since 2016-04-06 - [Pearson Prh Holdings Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/30e83f29-943f-4086-8c94-574f138858b8) — 25–50% shares · corporate PSC · England — ceased 2017-10-05 ## Provenance - OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00734421 - companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00734421 ## Get the full, resolved dossier (agent-callable) The above is the free teaser. The resolved **multi-hop UBO chain**, ownership **%**, full **financial history**, itemised **assets** and the hop-by-hop **exposure path** are the paid depth — callable as tools from your agent: ```bash npx -y @whiteintel/mcp-server # then: get_dossier · trace_ownership_path · check_offshore_exposure ``` Or unlock a one-off cited dossier for **PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LIMITED** — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/6f73b607-29b7-5fe1-8d3d-176e7263e1e7 · pricing https://whiteintel.dev/pricing. --- _This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/6f73b607-29b7-5fe1-8d3d-176e7263e1e7 · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/6f73b607-29b7-5fe1-8d3d-176e7263e1e7._ _Risk levels are heuristic investigative leads, not legal determinations of beneficial ownership. Every claim carries a source; an absent edge means "not yet observed in current sources", not "does not exist"._