Who owns Norstedts?
Norstedts 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
- 🇸🇪 Sweden, Stockholm
- Founded
- 1823
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Publishing › Book publishers
- Parent ticker
- Nasdaq First North Growth Market: STORY B
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Norstedts
Norstedts is a Swedish book publisher that Storytel Group describes as the oldest and most prominent in Sweden, founded in Stockholm in 1823. It publishes fiction and non-fiction in all genres, from poetry and thrillers to cookbooks and biographies, and since 2025 has issued digital-first books under the imprint Norstedts Spektra. Storytel acquired the Norstedts Publishing Group in 2016, and its list of subsidiaries shows it fully owned.
Ownership timeline of Norstedts
Where Norstedts 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)
- Gummerus (1872)
- Lind & Co (1999)
- 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.
🇸🇪 Norstedts and other Swedish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 110 brands that began in Sweden. 48 of them (44%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Norstedts is not one of them.
- Acast — Acast 🇸🇪
- Aftonbladet — Schibsted Media 🇳🇴
- & Other Stories — H&M Group 🇸🇪
- AXA — Lantmännen 🇸🇪
- Absolut — Pernod Ricard 🇫🇷
- Ahlgrens bilar — Cloetta 🇸🇪
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Norstedts?
The parent company of Norstedts is Storytel, a publicly listed company headquartered in Sweden.
Is Norstedts Swedish?
Yes. Norstedts originated in Sweden in 1823 and its owner, Storytel, is also headquartered in Sweden.
Is Norstedts still owned by Storytel?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Norstedts 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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