Who owns Kids Can Press?
Kids Can Press is owned by Corus (Canada, TSX: CJR.B).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Corus Entertainment Inc. Annual Information Form, fiscal year ended August 31, 2025, 30 October 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Corus Entertainment Inc. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇦 Canada, Toronto
- Origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Publishing › Book publishers
- Parent ticker
- TSX: CJR.B
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Kids Can Press
Kids Can Press is a children's book publisher that Corus's annual information form lists in its portfolio. The filing says it publishes high-quality children's books and continues that tradition with digital publications, custom publishing partnerships and brand marketing initiatives, and notes that Canadian book publishers face competitive market conditions.
Ownership timeline of Kids Can Press
Where Kids Can Press sits in Corus
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Corus
Corus controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
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.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bragelonne | Lagardère | 🇫🇷 France |
| Bokfabriken | Storytel | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Clifford the Big Red Dog | Scholastic | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Macmillan Education | Springer Nature | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Dummies | Wiley | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Penguin Books | Bertelsmann | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Kadokawa Bunko | Kadokawa | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| HarperCollins | News Corp | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Corus
Corus is a publicly listed company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, founded in 1999. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as TSX: CJR.B.
Corus Entertainment Inc. is a Toronto-based Canadian media company that owns the Global Television network, specialty channels, 36 radio stations, a podcast network and a children's book publisher. It was separated from Shaw Communications on 1 September 1999. Its fiscal 2025 annual information form says several channels it operates, such as Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, Lifetime and History, are licensed marks, and that it ceased five kids' channels on 1 September 2025; only channels it describes as its own are listed here.
🇨🇦 Kids Can Press and other Canadian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 174 brands that began in Canada. 41 of them (24%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Kids Can Press is not one of them.
- Canada's Wonderland — Six Flags 🇺🇸
- Cineplex — Cineplex 🇨🇦
- Degrassi — WildBrain 🇨🇦
- IMAX — IMAX 🇨🇦
- Landmark Cinemas — Kinepolis 🇧🇪
- Lionsgate Films — Lionsgate 🇨🇦
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Kids Can Press?
The parent company of Kids Can Press is Corus, a publicly listed company headquartered in Canada.
Is Kids Can Press Canadian?
Yes. Kids Can Press originated in Canada and its owner, Corus, is also headquartered in Canada.
Is Kids Can Press still owned by Corus?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Kids Can Press is still owned by Corus. 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] Corus Entertainment Inc. Annual Information Form, fiscal year ended August 31, 2025 — Corus Entertainment Inc., Annual report, published 30 October 2025; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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