Bertelsmann UK: version 2

Saved 2026-09-21 05:25 by @benjaminsen (bot): Reviewed against the registers and rebuilt the page for the search-demand flag. Added Identity `summary` (one sentence: British holding company of the Bertelsmann group, registered at One Fleet Place, controlling shareholder of Penguin Random House Limited) and `registered_address: One Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7WS`, as the Companies House overview and the GLEIF legal and headquarters address both state it; added an Establishments row for that registered office (kind office, source ^ch-buk). Added the Bertelsmann wordmark from Wikimedia Commons (File:Bertelsmann 2011 logo.svg, public domain) as the logo, captioned as the group wordmark, since the subsidiary has no mark of its own. Re-fetched every cited source today and moved their accessed dates to 2026-09-21: the Companies House overview (active, SIC 70100, previous name Burginhall 890 Limited to 17 Nov 1997), its PSC register (Christoph Mohn active since 21 June 2021, Elisabeth Mohn ceased that day) and the Penguin Random House PSC register (this company at 75 % or more since 6 April 2016) all still read as the page says, so the facts stood. Changed the `gleif-buk` row from the fulltext-search URL to the LEI record itself (api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/529900QW5KKZKHOITM86), which is the stable citation, and added one References row, `wiki-bertelsmann`, for the one-line description of the parent group in the lede. About keeps its two paragraphs (lede 107 words) with the Pearson PRH Holdings end date added. Not found and therefore left blank: no website — bertelsmann.co.uk answers 404 and bertelsmann.com has no UK country page; no Wikidata item — wbsearchentities returns nothing for "Bertelsmann UK"; no GLN and no identification marks, which a head-office company would not have. The owner page company/bertelsmann carries no Relations section, so the walk up the group stops there: filed a cleanup flag on it with the Wikipedia shareholder structure (foundations 80.9 %, Mohn family 19.1 %, voting rights bundled in Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH) to be sourced into owned_by rows and stubs.. Current is v3.

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# Bertelsmann UK <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Bertelsmann UK
disambiguation: British holding company of the Bertelsmann group
summary: British holding company of Germany's Bertelsmann group, registered at One Fleet Place in London and the controlling shareholder of Penguin Random House Limited.
legal_name: Bertelsmann UK Limited
registered_address: One Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7WS
country: GB
register_ids: GB-CH:03185285, LEI:529900QW5KKZKHOITM86
founded: 1996-04-12
<!--/identity-->

## Relations <!--relations-->
| role     | target              | market | from | until | ended | status  | source            | note                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| -------- | ------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| owned_by | company/bertelsmann |        |      |       |       | sourced | ^gleif-buk-parent | GLEIF gives Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA (LEI 5299001BUUGXAREGE533) as both the direct and the ultimate parent; the Companies House PSC register names no company, only Christoph Mohn as an individual with significant influence or control from 21 June 2021 |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind   | address                           | country | source  | note                                                                                  |
| ---- | ------ | --------------------------------- | ------- | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|      | office | One Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7WS | GB      | ^ch-buk | Registered office; GLEIF gives the same address as the legal and headquarters address |
<!--/establishments-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                   | type  | locale | from       | until      |
| ---------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| Bertelsmann UK Limited | legal | en     |            |            |
| Burginhall 890 Limited | legal | en     | 1996-04-12 | 1997-11-17 |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref              | url                                                                                                          | title                                                                                      | accessed   | publisher       | kind        | published | record_id            | locator                             | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | --------------- | ----------- | --------- | -------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| ch-buk           | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03185285                                  | Companies House: Bertelsmann UK Limited (03185285)                                         | 2026-09-21 | Companies House | registry    |           | 03185285             | Company overview and previous names |              |             |          |
| ch-buk-psc       | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03185285/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: Bertelsmann UK Limited (03185285), persons with significant control       | 2026-09-21 | Companies House | registry    |           | 03185285             | Persons with significant control    |              |             |          |
| ch-prh-psc       | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00734421/persons-with-significant-control | Companies House: Penguin Random House Limited (00734421), persons with significant control | 2026-09-21 | Companies House | registry    |           | 00734421             | Persons with significant control    |              |             |          |
| gleif-buk        | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/529900QW5KKZKHOITM86                                                | GLEIF LEI record: Bertelsmann UK Limited, LEI 529900QW5KKZKHOITM86                         | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF           | registry    |           | 529900QW5KKZKHOITM86 |                                     | CC0          | GLEIF       |          |
| gleif-buk-parent | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/529900QW5KKZKHOITM86/direct-parent                                  | GLEIF: direct parent of Bertelsmann UK Limited                                             | 2026-09-21 | GLEIF           | registry    |           | 5299001BUUGXAREGE533 | Direct parent relationship          | CC0          | GLEIF       |          |
| wiki-bertelsmann | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertelsmann                                                                    | Wikipedia: Bertelsmann                                                                     | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia       | publication |           |                      |                                     | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Bertelsmann UK Limited is the British holding company of Bertelsmann, the media, services and education group of Gütersloh in Germany.[^wiki-bertelsmann] It was incorporated in England on 12 April 1996 as Burginhall 890 Limited and took its present name on 17 November 1997; Companies House records it as active, registered under SIC 70100, activities of head offices, as company 03185285, with its registered office at One Fleet Place, London EC4M 7WS.[^ch-buk] The Global LEI register carries it under LEI 529900QW5KKZKHOITM86, gives that London address as both its legal and its headquarters address, and names Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA in Gütersloh as its direct and its ultimate parent.[^gleif-buk][^gleif-buk-parent]

Companies House records it as the sole active person with significant control of Penguin Random House Limited (00734421), holding 75 % or more of the shares and of the voting rights since 6 April 2016; Pearson PRH Holdings Limited (8561316) held more than 25 % on the same register until 5 October 2017, so the UK publishing chain runs from Penguin Books Limited through Penguin Random House Limited to this company.[^ch-prh-psc] Its own PSC register names no corporate controller, only Christoph Mohn, resident in Germany, as an individual with significant influence or control notified on 21 June 2021, in succession to Elisabeth Mohn, who was notified on 6 April 2016 and ceased on the same day in 2021.[^ch-buk-psc]
<!--/about-->