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When was Mondadori founded?
What is Mondadori's mission?
Who are Mondadori's shareholders?
Who are the members of Mondadori's Board of Directors?
How can I obtain a copy of Mondadori's Annual, Interim and Quarterly Reports?
What are Mondadori's business activities?
How many people work for Mondadori?
What is the revenue breakdown of Mondadori's businesses?
Who are the Mondadori Group's international partners?
What is the Mondadori Group's market share in the Italian book market?
How many titles does Mondadori publish each year?
How many books does Mondadori print in a year?
What are the publishing houses and imprints of the Mondadori Book Division?
In which publishing sectors is Mondadori present?
What is the Mondadori Group's market share in the Italian magazine market?
How many titles does the Mondadori Group publish?
Which areas of interest are covered by Mondadori magazines?
What is the market share of Mondadori Pubblicità?
Which titles does Mondadori Pubblicità have in its portfolio?
What is the turnover of Mondadori Printing?
What is the geographical and market breakdown of Mondadori Printing's revenues?
Which activities are grouped together in the Direct Division?
How many Mondadori book stores are there?
How can one open a Mondadori franchised book store?
Where can I find information about job opportunities in the Mondadori Group?
Where can I send my curriculum vitae?
What is the Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori?
What is Mediafriends?
What is the Leonardo Mondadori Master's in Journalism?
For any other information, contact us.
When was Mondadori founded?
Arnoldo Mondadori began his publishing activities in 1907, at the age of only eighteen, with the publication of the magazine Luce! In 1911 he published his first book, Aia Madama by Tomaso Monicelli, and created the first book series, La Lampada, dedicated to children's literature.
What is Mondadori's mission?
The mission of Mondadori has always been to encourage the spread of culture and ideas, with a production that covers all genres and reaches all readers. Combining a love for culture and publishing quality, with the laws of the market, and an intuitive capacity to anticipate trends and changes, while respecting and protecting the values that underlie the role of the publisher in civil society.
Who are Mondadori's shareholders?
Mondadori's shareholder structure, at 31.12.2007, was as follows:
Fininvest
50,1%Foreign institutional investors
21,35%Italian institutional investors
9,5%Company portfolio
7,75%Private investors
11,3%
Who are the members of Mondadori's Board of Directors?
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mondadori is Marina Berlusconi.
The Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive is Maurizio Costa.
The other directors are currently: Pier Silvio Berlusconi, Pasquale Cannatelli, Bruno Ermolli, Martina Mondadori, Roberto Poli, Mario Resca, Marco Spadacini, Umberto Veronesi, Carlo Maria Vismara.
How can I obtain a copy of Mondadori's Annual, Interim and Quarterly Reports?
In the Reports pages of the Investor Relations section of this site, it is possible to download documents in the pdf format.
It is also possible to receive the printed version, by completing this form.
What are Mondadori's business activities?
The Mondadori Group covers the whole range of publishing activities, from the creation of products to printing, marketing and distribution. The Group's activities are currently organised in five business areas: Books, Magazines, Advertising, Printing and Direct.
How many people work for Mondadori?
The employees of the Mondadori Group, at 31.12.2007, totalled 5,586 of which 4,365 executives, journalists, middle managers and office staff and 1,221 workers.
What is the revenue breakdown of Mondadori's businesses?
The consolidated revenues of the Mondadori Group in 2007 came to €1,958.6 million, a 8.2% increase on the previous year. Of these revenues, 19.8% were generated by the Book Division, 43.3% by the Magazine Division, 17.5% by the Advertising, 8.2% by the Printing Division, 1.2% by the Direct Division and 0.3% by other activities.
Who are the Mondadori Group's international partners?
The Mondadori Group is involved in a number of important activities together with international partners.
In particular, Mondadori operates in the Spanish-language book market (Spain and Latin America) in a joint venture with Random House, the book publishing division of the Bertelsmann Group. Mondadori also publishes romantic fiction series such as the extraordinarily successful Harmony series, in a joint venture with the Canadian publishing group Harlequin Enterprises. In cooperation with Microsoft Corp. Mondadori launched in 2001 e-book in Italy, and is also the exclusive publisher in Italy of computer manuals for the Redmond-based company.
Also in the magazine are, the Mondadori Group has a number of important international partnerships: with Gruner und Jahr, the magazine division of the Bertelsmann Group, for the publication of Focus, Focus D&R, Focus Extra, Focus Brain Trainer, Focus Storia, Focus Junior, Focus Pico, Jack and Top Girl; with the US publisher Hearst for the Italian edition of Cosmopolitan; with the American publishing group Rodale Press for Starbene and the Italian edition of Men's Health; with the publishing group Emap for the uk edition of Grazia.
The creation of the company Mondolibri with an international partner such as the Bertelsmann Group has made it possible to develop mail order book sales, that currently is conducted through six book clubs.
What is the Mondadori Group's market share in the Italian book market?
The Mondadori Group is the leader in the Italian book market with a value market share of 29%.
Followed by the RCS Mediagroup with a 13.6%, the Gems Group with 8.2% and Feltrinelli with 3.8%.
Other publishers account for the remaining 45.4% of the market.
How many titles does Mondadori publish each year?
In 2007 the Mondadori Group, including all its imprints, published 2,742 new titles and 5,244 reprints.
In 2006 the Mondadori Group, including all its imprints, published 2.787 new titles and 4.937 reprints for a total of 7724 titles.
In 2005 the Mondadori Group, including all its imprints, published 2.588 new titles and 4.405 reprints for a total of 6993 titles.
In 2004 the Mondadori Group, including all its imprints, published 2,440 new titles and 5,241 reprints, for a total of 7,681 titles.
How many books does Mondadori print in a year?
Nel 2007 the Mondadori Group produced a total of 54,6 million.
Nel 2006 the Mondadori Group produced a total of 56,4 million.
Nel 2005 the Mondadori Group produced a total of 55 million.
In 2004 the Mondadori Group produced a total of 61 million.
What are the publishing houses and imprints of the Mondadori Book Division?
In the fiction and non fiction areas the Mondadori Group operates, in addition to the Edizioni Mondadori imprint, with Giulio Einaudi Editore, Sperling & Kupfer, Frassinelli, Edizioni Piemme and Edizioni EL for children's books.
In the art publishing sector, the Group operates with the Electa, Leonardo Arte, Mondadori Illustrati and Geo Mondadori imprints.
In the educational sector, the Group's publishing activities are carried out by the following: Arnoldo Mondadori Scuola, Einaudi Scuola, Minerva Italica, Elemond Scuola & Azienda, Carlo Signorelli, Juvenilia, Mursia Scuola, Poseidonia and Le Monnier.
In which publishing sectors is Mondadori present?
The Mondadori Group's book publishing activities cover a complete range of cultural interest and reading needs.
Traditionally, contemporary fiction, the classics, paperbacks and children's books make up the core business. At the same time, the Mondadori Group's Book Division also operates in sectors with considerable development potential, such as arts books, educational publishing, tourist guides and professional titles.
What is the Mondadori Group's market share in the Italian magazine market?
With a market share of more than 38% the Mondadori Group is Italy's leading magazine publisher and one of the biggest in Europe. It is followed, in Italy, by the RCS Mediagroup with a share of about 11.8%, Hachette Rusconi with more than 6.6%, Universo with 10.6%, Cairo with 12.9%, Gruppo Espresso with 3.3% Condè Nast with 3.1%. Other publishers account for the remaining 15.2% of the market.
How many titles does the Mondadori Group publish?
The Mondadori Group publishes 40 titles, exclusively or in joint ventures with leading international partners such as Gruner und Jahr, Hearst and Rodale Press.
Which areas of interest are covered by Mondadori magazines?
Mondadori's magazine portfolio includes 50 titles covering a very wide range of interests and needs in different targets: architecture, interior design, cars, cinema, cooking, design/furnishing, business, family interests, women's titles, TV guides, computers, lifestyle, music, newsmagazines, children's, cultural reviews, health and fitness, science and technology, sport, men's interests, travel: a portfolio that reflects the generalist vocation that has always characterised Mondadori.
What is the market share of Mondadori Pubblicità?
Mondadori Pubblicità, which sells advertising for all of the Mondadori Group's titles, as well as for a number of third parties, is the absolute market leader in magazine advertising in Italy with a market share of more than 27%. It is followed by the RCS Mediagroup with a 16.2% share, Manzoni with 12%, Universo with 2.2%, Hachette Rusconi with 9%. The remaining 19% of the market is accounted for by other publishers.
Which titles does Mondadori Pubblicità have in its portfolio?
Mondadori Pubblicità sells advertising for all of the Mondadori Group's titles , as for a number of third party titles such as Topolino and all the other Disney titles. The company also operates in the newspaper sector where it sells advertising for the national daily newspaper Il Giornale.
The portfolio was further enhanced at the beginning of 2005 with the acquisition of the historic radio station R101.
What is the turnover of Mondadori Printing?
The Printing division of the Mondadori Group recorded 2007 revenues, net of the cost of paper, of €349.5million.
What is the geographical and market breakdown of Mondadori Printing's revenues?
In 2004 Mondadori Printing's gross revenues came to €439.9 million, including both third party sales and revenues deriving from the Mondadori Group for the printing of books and magazines. The printing plants, initially created for the printing of Mondadori products, now generate around 45% of its contracts from third parties, mainly foreign. In particular, 52.2% of revenues derive from Italian customers, while .9% comes from the United Kingdom, 6.6% from France, 11.5% from Germany, 3.6% from the USA and 16.2% from other foreign countries.
Which activities are grouped together in the Direct Division?
Since 2001 all of the Mondadori Group's activities that have a direct link with the customer have been managed together in a single business unit, the Direct. Division. This includes, Subscriptions and Cemit Interactive Media, Mondolibri, BOL Italia, Mondadori Franchising and Mondadori Retail.
How many Mondadori book stores are there?
The number of outlets trading under the Libreria Mondadori and Mondadori Multicenter fascia directly managed by the Mondadori Group are currently 17: Turin, Milan (3), Vimercate (MI), Como,Varese, Padua, Genoa (2), Bologna, Casalecchio di Reno (BO), Florence, Rome (2). Over 150 franchised outlets can be added to these, located in the most important provincial towns and coordinated by Mondadori Franchising.
How can one open a Mondadori franchised book store?
To be a part of the Mondadori franchise the outlet must have a sales area of more than 150 m2 have a good position with a significant pedestrian flow, be in a town of more than 40,000 inhabitants or in a shopping mall.
Books are supplied by Mondadori Franchising against a deposit. The required initial capital is limited to the initial entrance fee, basic shop fittings and equipment and is, in any case, commensurate with the size of the outlet.
For further information please refer to www.libreriemondadori.com/progetto.htm
Where can I find information about job opportunities in the Mondadori Group?
In the Jobs section of this site, accessible directly from the home page, it is possible to see all of the job opportunities currently available in the companies of the Mondadori Group and to make an application.
Where can I send my curriculum vitae?
To send your curriculum vitae to the Mondadori Group, fill in the form in the area marked "Segnala il tuo curriculum" in the Jobs section of this site, accessible directly from the home page.
What is the Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori? The Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori no profit institution, recognised by the President of the Republic in April 1979. It was established with the aim of conserving, valorising and making available to the public the funds of Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori, since the mid 90s it has become a study and research centre on Italy's publishing culture. The activities of the Fondazione are currently focused on three areas: the protection of the memory of publishing activities, the promotion of research into the role of cultural mediation and the spread of a publishing culture.
For information about the activities of the Fondazione please visit the web site www.fondazionemondadori.it.
What is Mediafriends?
Mediafriends is a not-for-profit social fund established in 2003 by R.T.I., Mondadori and Medusa with the aim of inventing, producing and promoting events aimed at raising funds for charity purposes.
The Association aims to coordinate the communicative skills of RTI, Medusa and Mondadori with a view to achieving better results in fund raising and the build awareness of the causes identified.
Mediafriends' first project was the "La fabbrica del sorriso" (Smile Factory), a gathering of Italy's most popular comedians in an effort to raise money for disadvantaged children. For the occasion Mondadori published La Fabbrica del Sorriso - comici per un mondo migliore sold in bookshops and combined with a number of the Group's magazines. All of the profits made from the initiative were donated to the "La Fabbrica del Sorriso".
For information about the activities of Mediafriends please visit the web site www.mediafriends.it or www.mediafriends.org.
What is the Leonardo Mondadori Master's in Journalism?
The Leonardo Mondadori Master's in Journalism is a ten-month, full-time post graduate master's course for a limited number of students aimed at young people who with to make a career in journalism.
The course, that exploits the professional, cultural and historical assets of Mondadori and includes teaching contributions from national and international media sector, using the editorial departments of the company's magazines as laboratories and giving participants the opportunity to combine a study of the theory and concepts of journalism with a hands-on approach in a real-life journalistic environment.
The course, name din memory of Leonardo Mondadori, aims to keep alight his heritage and be a tangible and lasting expression of his ideas and his convictions about the importance of the role of the publisher in the renewal of the country and the need for an increasingly rigorous journalism.
For more information please visit the site www.mastermondadori.it