After the failed takeover of the US book publisher Simon

Dohle was quoted as saying: "Following the US antitrust decision against the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon

Dohle continues to work in an advisory capacity

The Penguin Random House group, which is one of the largest trade publishers in the world, was actually supposed to set up the New York publisher Simon

According to the information, Dohle will continue to work in an advisory capacity for the Gütersloh-based group. He took over as CEO of Random House in 2008 and became a member of the Bertelsmann Executive Board. On July 1, 2013, he was appointed its first CEO when the Penguin Random House publishing group was founded.

At the beginning of 2023, manager Nihar Malaviya will take over as interim successor to Dohle at the publishing group. He is already in the position of President