By Jim Milliot | PW - Sept 06, 2013
Ever since the Penguin–Random House merger was announced, Markus Dohle, CEO of the new company, has promised that the integration of the two publishers would be handled carefully and deliberately. With the merger officially consummated on July 1, Dohle has held firm to that strategy; over the last two months, some preliminary steps have been taken to unite the publishers, but the focus has been on promoting and selling the fall and holiday lists, largely as separate companies.
“While much remains the same prior to us formally merging on July 1,” every day Penguin and Random House employees are engaged in activities to move the company forward, said Stuart Applebaum, head of global communications for PRH and one of only a handful of corporate executives who have a new PRH title. For the most part, employees of PRH are using their old titles and are doing their old jobs. Contact information for employees has also remained the same, although PRH created a new companywide intranet, which launched on July 1, that features postings relevant to all employees.
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