Egmont Publishing

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The Egmont Group is a publishing corporation founded and rooted in Denmark. Until 1992 kit was known as Gutenberghus. The business area of Egmont has traditionally been magazine publishing but has over the years evolved to comprise media generally.

Since 1948 Egmont has produced and published a local Scandinavian version of Donald Duck magazine, featuring all the well known Disney Characters, from Mickey Mouse to Little Hiawatha under license from Disney.

From the late 80's the Egmont Group used the close connection with Disney to expanded their Scandinavian focus to a global focus, being the producer of Disney for the new Eastern European market, as well as for the Chinese market.

Egmont has a number of local country branches: China, Sweden, Bulgaria, Austria, Romania, Denmark, Czech Republic, Israel, Russia, Switzerland, Lithuania, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Germany, India, Hong Kong, Norway, Poland, Taiwan, UK, Turkey, Hungary. In 2008 they acquired the minority stake in magazine publisher Hjemmet Mortensen which they did not already hold, from Orkla ASA.^[1]

UK branch

EgmontUK publishes books and magazines for children in the United Kingdom, for example Toxic. They also own the Fleetway archive from 1970 onwards.

EgmontUK is divided into divisions:

Egmont Press

Press is Egmont’s author and illustrator led list. It includes fiction novels, picture books, novelty books, illustrated books, fantasy adventures and Egmont’s own Banana books (for five to nine year olds). Egmont Press also has a number of young adult fiction, award-winners, classics and epic tales.

The publish the work of authors such as Andy Stanton, Jamila Gavin, William Nicholson, Michael Morpurgo, Catherine Forde and Anne Fine. They are also the UK publisher of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket which has sold over 2 million copies.

Egmont Press’s illustrators include Helen Oxenbury and Colin and Jacqui Hawkins.^[2]

Egmont Publishing

Egmont publishes a wide range of formats for children of all ages: storybooks, annuals, colouring, activity and sticker books as well as a wide range of novelty books. The Publishing list contains books on licensed characters, including:

• Babar
• Barbie
• Ben10
• Bob the Builder
• Cars
• Cat Royal
• Charlie Bone
• Disney Fairies
• Disney Princesses
• Dora the Explorer
• Fireman Sam
• Flat Stanley
• Go Girl
• LazyTown
• Miffy
• Mr. Gum
• Mr. Men & Little Miss
• Nickelodeon
• Numberjacks
• Postman Pat
• Power Rangers
• Roy of the Rovers
• Rupert Bear
• Shaun the Sheep
• Sir Charlie Stinky Socks
• Stripy Horse
• The Little Prince
• The Rainbow Orchid
• The Wind in the Willows
• Thomas and Friends
• Tintin
• Tumtum and Nutmeg
• Wallace and Gromit
• Winnie-the-Pooh
• Zoey101

See also

• UK children's book publishers

References

1. ^ "Orkla ASA sells its stake in magazine publisher Hjemmet Mortensen AS to Denmark's Egmont" Nordic Business Report 27 June 2008
2. ^ http://www.egmont.co.uk/default.asp?pageid=29

External links

• Egmont Group