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Today, Guinness World Records is a global brand, with offices in London, New York, Beijing, Tokyo and Dubai, with brand ambassadors and adjudicators on the ground around the world. Our mission to document the incredible can still be found each year on the pages of our book, but also through TV Shows, social media and live events.
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The brainchild of Sir Hugh Beaver, the book was co-founded by twin brothers Norris ...
Guinness World Records 2024 is out now! Find out more about all the latest Guinness World Records books, including the annual edition, the editors, the history of GWR and much more!
That is how, in 1955, the first edition of the Guinness Book of Records came about. A book on facts that would be reprinted four times, with 187,000 copies sold. Discover more about the history of the iconic non-fiction bestseller.
Read on to find out why and how the Guinness Book of Records was first created, later to evolve into the global company that Guinness World Records is today. A 2001 page telling the story behind Guinness World Records.
The fact that the world record catalog authority and Guinness beer share a name is much more than a simple coincidence, although these days Guinness World Records and the beer company are no longer officially linked.
Dive into our archive: discover the past editions of Guinness World Records, from the very first one to the most recent snapshot of our world. Find out about the publishing history of Guinness World Records and its rising success, and see how the book cover has changed over the past 60 plus years.
May 31, 2024 · Published worldwide, The Guinness Book of World Records has been translated into more than 40 languages. It is one of the top-selling copyrighted books in publishing history, selling an average of about 3.5 million books annually and more than 150 million books since it was first released in 1955.
May 25, 2023 · The book, which since 1999 has gone by Guinness World Records, is still an overwhelming blizzard of wacky pictures and hard data. But the company that publishes the book, also called Guinness...
