 The Egmont Group was founded by Egmont Harald Petersen in 1878 as a one-man printing business, but soon became a magazine business.It was originally called "P. Petersen, Printers", named after Petersen's mother, as he was still too young at the time to register his own company.The company was renamed "Gutenberghus" in 1914 (after the famous inventor of the printing press), a name it kept until 1992.