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Shareholder Structure
Grupo Planeta de Agostini
This is the result of the strategic alliance between Grupo Planeta and
De Agostini. Its objective is to strengthen its leadership in the publishing
world, in new sectors of the economy and, especially, in the area of au-
dio-visual media.
Grupo Planeta:
is the largest family-owned Spanish publishing and com-
munications group providing a wide range of services in the areas of
culture, training, information and audio-visual entertainment. Since the
foundation of Editorial Planeta in Barcelona in 1949, the Group, chaired by
José Manuel Lara until January 2015, and currently by José Creuheras, has
combined a solid business background with a great capacity for innova-
tion and a clear multinational vocation.
Grupo Planeta leads the publishing market in Spain and Latin America, it
is in second position in France and is among the top eight in the world.
It has more than one hundred publishing companies that cover all the
literary genres, and a catalogue of more than 15,000 Spanish and foreign
authors, both classic and contemporary.
Internationally, Grupo Planeta is present in 25 Spanish and French speak-
ing countries, which represents a universe of more than 760 million peo-
ple.
Grupo De Agostini
: Multinational Italian group operating in different in-
dustrial sectors (publishing, gaming, media and communications) and in
the financial market. De Agostini Editore has a presence in thirty coun-
tries, largely in the collectables and mail order segments.
Through IGT it operates as the leading company in the international mar-
ket for gaming and lotteries, and in the market for derived services and
technologies.
De Agostini Communications participates in the sector for the production
of content for media organisations through Zodiak Media, present in sev-
enteen countries, mostly European, and in the broadcasting of content
through Atresmedia, controlled jointly with its Spanish partner Planeta.
DeA Capital is present in the alternative investments sector, both with
direct and indirect private equity investments and with controlling stakes
in alternative asset management platforms. The group also has a total
holding of 2.43% in Assicurazioni Generali.
RTL Group
With 49 television channels and 29 radio stations in twelve countries, it
is the European leader in the entertainment market. The Company, which
has its headquarters in Luxembourg, has interests in radio and television
stations in Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Spain, Hun-
gary, Croatia and South-East Asia.