Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Acquires Ediciones Salamandra

The global trade books publishing group reinforces its leadership in the Spanish-language market, both in Spain and Latin America. Ediciones Salamandra’s author catalog includes J.K. Rowling, Andrea Camilleri and Zadie Smith.

Barcelona, 3 May 2019.- Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, the global Spanish-language division of Penguin Random House, has signed an agreement to acquire leading independent publisher Ediciones Salamandra, established in October 2000 in Barcelona by Sigrid Kraus and Pedro del Carril. 

The announcement was made jointly by Markus Dohle and Núria Cabutí, CEO of Penguin Random House and CEO of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, respectively, and Pedro del Carril and Sigrid Kraus, owners of Ediciones Salamandra. Terms of the agreement were not made public. 

With this acquisition, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial reinforces and expands its market share in the Spanish-language children’s and young adult, and adult book market in Spain and Latin America, which it previously advanced with its purchases of Santillana Ediciones Generales (2014) and Ediciones B (2017). 

Ediciones Salamandra started taking shape as an independent publisher in 1989, over 10 years before its formal establishment, when Pedro del Carril and Sigrid Kraus took charge of the Spanish subsidiary of Argentine publisher Emecé Editores. Their initial idea was to publish Spanish editions of the work of the leading authors from Emece’s Argentine catalogue and, at the same time, develop a home-grown narrative line attuned to the tastes of the Spanish market. At the end of September 2000, Kraus and del Carril decided to acquire full ownership of Emecé 

España, which came to be called Ediciones Salamandra. Hence, the new publishing house began with more than10 years of experience behind it. 

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