Doubleday Canada is an imprint of the publishing company
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House LLC is an Anglo-American multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, from the merger of Penguin Group and Random House.
On April 2, 2020, Bertels ...
Canada. The company used to be known as Forboys. It was incorporated in 1936, and since 1945 it has been known as Doubleday Canada Limited. In 1986 parent company
Doubleday was acquired by
Bertelsmann
Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA () is a German private multinational conglomerate corporation based in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of the world's largest media conglomerates, and is also active in the service sector and ...
. Due to Canadian policy at the time, majority control of Doubleday Canada was sold to
Anna Porter
Anna Maria Porter, is a Canadian publisher and novelist.
Life and career
Born Anna Szigethy in Budapest, she emigrated to New Zealand in 1956. She received a bachelor's degree and Master of Arts degree from the University of Canterbury. She star ...
. Porter sold her shares to Winnipeg businessman Abraham Simkin in 1991.
Random House of Canada
Random House of Canada was the Canadian distributor for Random House, Inc. from 1944 until 2013. On July 1, 2013, it amalgamated with Penguin Canada to become Penguin Random House Canada.
Company history
Random House of Canada was established i ...
, which has just been acquired by Bertelsmann, acquired Doubleday Canada in 1999.
In 2013, Random House of Canada and Penguin Canada merged to form Penguin Random House Canada.
See also
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Doubleday (publisher)
Doubleday is an American publishing company. It was founded as the Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 and was the largest in the United States by 1947. It published the work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed th ...
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Book publishing companies of Canada
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