Dorling Kindersley
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1974 |
| Seat | London , UK |
| management | Shaun Hodgkinson, Paul Kelly, Rebecca Smart |
| Number of employees | 0 |
| sales | 115.13 million GBP approx. 128.7 million EUR |
| Branch | Book publisher |
| Website | www.dk.com |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
Dorling Kindersley (DK) is an international UK- based book publisher specializing primarily in non-fiction and encyclopedias for children and adults. The company is part of Penguin Random House and thus part of the Bertelsmann Group.
history
The company was founded in 1974 by Christopher Dorling and Peter Kindersley as a book manufacturing company, and in 1982 the decision was made to transform it into a book publisher in London . The first book was developed for British doctors under the name First Aid Manual , a textbook. This book made DK famous because the well-explained texts with many pictures and drawings on a white background, some of which were skilfully surrounded by text, found favor in the non-fiction world. In 1991 Dorling Kindersley began selling books in the United States .
DK has been producing numerous non-fiction books and encyclopedias for adults and children since the 1980s. The books should be educationally valuable and distinguishable from other books at first glance. They are developed by expert writers and organizations such as the British Medical Association, the Royal Horticultural Society, the British Red Cross, St John's Ambulance, St Andrew's Ambulance, and many others.
Under the name Dorling Kindersley, the BBC produced a series of documentary films based heavily on typical book design. Interactive CD-ROMs with an accessible museum for the PC were also produced. The catchy intro melody in the film and CD-ROM is known to many people.
On March 31, 2000, the book publisher was acquired by the media group Pearson PLC and incorporated into the Penguin Group , which includes the Penguin Books label . The publishing house has had a branch in Germany since January 2000. It is now one of the five largest non-fiction book publishers in Germany with an annual turnover of 18 million euros (2006). DK also appears on the German book market with the Coventgarden imprint .
Dorling Kindersley Verlag GmbH is based in Munich (previously Starnberg ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Full accounts made up to 31 December 2018 , from companieshouse.gov.uk , accessed on 30 November 2019
- ↑ http://www.dorlingkindersley.de/content-4-4/ueber_dk/