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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

PENGUIN BOOKS LIMITED

One Embassy Gardens, 8 Viaduct Gardens, London, SW11 7BW, GB

Legal Entity Identifier 5299004NU7DNRT9M4K21
Entity status
Active
LEI status
Issued
Policy conformity
Conforming
Reference data
Register-verified
Next renewal
17 Jan 2027
LEI Issuer
WM Datenservice

Record snapshot

The Legal Entity Identifier for PENGUIN BOOKS LIMITED is 5299004NU7DNRT9M4K21. It is valid, policy conforming and renewed until 17 Jan 2027.

PENGUIN BOOKS LIMITED is a Private Limited Company formed in the United Kingdom, registered as 00861590 with Companies Register, England and Wales, United Kingdom. The LEI was registered on 17 Jan 2014. At its last validation on 12 Jan 2026, all of its Level 1 reference data was confirmed against Companies Register. It reports Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA as its ultimate parent. WM Datenservice maintains the record.

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Registered entity Level 1 data

Legal name
PENGUIN BOOKS LIMITED
Legal form
Private Limited Company H0PO
Jurisdiction
United Kingdom GB
Registration
Registered at Companies Register, England and Wales, United Kingdom RA000585. Registration number 00861590
Entity created
3 Oct 1965
Legal address
One Embassy Gardens, 8 Viaduct Gardens, London, SW11 7BW, GB
Connected identifiers
OpenCorporatesgb/00861590 QCCQGBFRQP882 S&P Capital IQ5570188 Other identifiers recorded against this LEI.
Securities
Not retrieved yet We have not yet checked whether any ISINs are mapped to this LEI in the ANNA and GLEIF ISIN-to-LEI file.

What this record’s status means

Reference data
Register-verified GLEIF records this as fully corroborated. At its last validation, all of the entity's Level 1 reference data was verified against an authoritative public source.

Changes to this record

Not retrieved yet. The change history for this record has not been retrieved yet.

Ownership Level 2 data

  1. Direct and ultimate parent

    Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA

    DE · 5299001BUUGXAREGE533

    Active

  2. GLEIF reports the same entity at both tiers, so the chain is one step, not two.

  3. This entity

    PENGUIN BOOKS LIMITED

    GB · 5299004NU7DNRT9M4K21

    Active

  4. Below
    0 Direct subsidiaries
    0 Ultimate subsidiaries

    The chain ends here. No other entity reports PENGUIN BOOKS LIMITED as its parent, so the count is a stated zero rather than data still to arrive.

Level 2 data records who consolidates this entity. A reported relationship, or a reported reason for the absence of one, both satisfy the standard. Only a record carrying neither is incomplete.

Where this data comes from

Source registry

Companies Register, England and Wales, United Kingdom

Validated against

Companies Register, England and Wales, United Kingdom

Maintained by

WM Datenservice

Published in

The GLEIF Global LEI Index. This record last updated 12 Jan 2026

Reference data from the GLEIF Global LEI Index, as published on 12 Jan 2026.