Who owns Gummerus?
Gummerus is owned by Storytel (Sweden, Nasdaq First North Growth Market: STORY B).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Storytel Group Annual and Sustainability Report 2025, Storytel AB (publ), 26 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Storytel AB (publ) reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇸🇪 Sweden, Stockholm
- Origin
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- Founded
- 1872
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Publishing › Book publishers
- Parent ticker
- Nasdaq First North Growth Market: STORY B
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Gummerus
Gummerus is a Finnish book publisher founded in 1872, which Storytel Group says it acquired in 2019. The annual report calls it the third largest book publisher in Finland and notes bestsellers published by it in 2025. Its legal entity, Gummerus Kustannus Oy, appears in the group's subsidiary list as 100% owned.
Ownership timeline of Gummerus
Where Gummerus sits in Storytel
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Storytel
Storytel controls 10 brands on Brandtree, 7 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
- Bokfabriken (2012)
- Brombergs (1975)
- Lind & Co (1999)
- Norstedts (1823)
- People's (2002)
- Raben & Sjogren (1942)
Other brands in book publishers, and who owns them
The 34 brands in book publishers on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is Lagardère, with 13; Storytel has 7.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bragelonne | Lagardère | 🇫🇷 France |
| Clifford the Big Red Dog | Scholastic | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Macmillan Education | Springer Nature | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Dummies | Wiley | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Penguin Books | Bertelsmann | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Kids Can Press | Corus | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Kadokawa Bunko | Kadokawa | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| HarperCollins | News Corp | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Storytel
Storytel is a publicly listed company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 2005. Brandtree records 10 brands under its control, and it is listed as Nasdaq First North Growth Market: STORY B.
Storytel AB is a Stockholm audiobook and ebook streaming group whose annual report dates its journey to 2005, when Jonas Tellander and Jon Hauksson founded the Bokilur audiobook service in Sweden. Its report describes two business areas, Streaming (under the Storytel, Mofibo and Audiobooks.com brands) and Publishing, a group of book publishers acquired since 2013. Its 2025 report states 2.67 million paying subscribers. Its holding in Storytel AS in Norway is a 50% joint venture and is not listed as a brand here.
🇫🇮 Gummerus and other Finnish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 63 brands that began in Finland. 21 of them (33%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Gummerus among them.
- MTV (Finland) — Schibsted Media 🇳🇴
- Arabia — Fiskars Group 🇫🇮
- Atria — Atria 🇫🇮
- Benecol — Raisio 🇫🇮
- Clash of Clans — Tencent 🇨🇳
- ESL Shipping — Aspo 🇫🇮
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Gummerus?
The parent company of Gummerus is Storytel, a publicly listed company headquartered in Sweden.
Is Gummerus Finnish or Swedish?
Gummerus originated in Finland in 1872, but it is owned today by Storytel, which is headquartered in Sweden. So Gummerus is a Finnish-origin brand under Swedish ownership.
Is Gummerus still owned by Storytel?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Gummerus is still owned by Storytel. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Storytel Group Annual and Sustainability Report 2025 — Storytel AB (publ), Annual report, published 26 March 2026; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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