Egmont Publishing

The Egmont Group is founded and rooted in Denmark and was until 1992 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 the Scandinavian focus to a global focus, being the producer of Disney for the new Eastern European market, as well as for the [http://www.wolfstad.com/dcw/china/ 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

UK branch

Egmont Books are publishers of children's books for all ages, from picture books to teen fiction. In particular, they publish books of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends and Winnie the Pooh.

See also

* UK children's book publishers

External links

* [http://www.egmont.com Egmont Group]
* [http://www.ketupa.net/egmont.htm Egmont Media Profile]
* [http://www.egmont.co.uk Egmont UK]
* [http://www.egmont.de Egmont Germany]
* [http://www.egmontbulgaria.com Egmont Bulgaria]
* [http://www.egmont.ru Egmont Russia]
* [http://www.egmont.pl Egmont Poland]
* [http://www.egmont.hr Egmont Croatia]
* [http://www.egmont.dk Egmont Denmark]