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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?
What are the publishing houses and imprints of the Mondadori Book Division?
In which book publishing sectors is the Mondadori Group 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?
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?
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 is as follows:
Fininvest
50.27%Foreign institutional investors
26.18%Italian institutional investors
8.08%Company portfolio
8.62%Private investors
6.85%
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.
How many people work for Mondadori?
The employees of the Mondadori Group, at 31.12.2009, totalled 3,750.
What is the revenue breakdown of Mondadori's businesses?
The consolidated revenues of the Mondadori Group in 2009 came to €1,540.1 million. Of these revenues, 23.8% were generated by the Book Division, 23.6% by the Magazine Division Italy, 22.3 by the Magazine Division France, 15.9% by Advertising, 1.2% by the Direct Division, 12.4% by Retail, 0.6% by the Radio and 0.2% 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 28.4 in 2009%.
Followed by the RCS Mediagroup with a 12.6%, the Gems Group with 9.3%, Giunti with 5.8% and Feltrinelli with 4%.
Other publishers account for the remaining 39.3% of the market.
How many titles does Mondadori publish each year?
In 2009 the Mondadori Group, including all its imprints, published 2,449 new titles and 5,137 reprints for a total of 51.6 million copies.
In 2008 the Mondadori Group, including all its imprints, published 2,695 new titles and 5,225 reprints for a total of 53.4 million copies.
In 2007 the Mondadori Group, including all its imprints, published 2,742 new titles and 5,242 reprints for a total of 54.6 million copies.
In 2006 the Mondadori Group, including all its imprints, published 2,787 new titles and 4,937 reprints for a total of 7,724 titles.
In 2005 the Mondadori Group, including all its imprints, published 2,588 new titles and 4,405 reprints for a total of 6,993 titles.
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, 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 and Mondadori Education.
In which publishing sectors is the Mondadori Group present?
The Mondadori Group's book publishing activities cover a complete range of cultural interest and reading needs.
Traditionally, contemporary fiction, 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 34.3% in 2009, the Mondadori Group is Italy's leading magazine publisher. It is followed, in Italy, by the RCS Mediagroup with a share of 11%, Hachette Rusconi with 6%, Universo with 10%, Cairo with 15%, Gruppo Espresso with 3% Condè Nast with 3.7%. Other publishers account for the remaining 17.1% of the market. In France, with a market share of 14.4%, Mondadori France is the third publisher.
How many titles does the Mondadori Group publish?
The Mondadori Group publishes 40 titles in Italy and 27 in France, exclusively or in joint ventures with leading international partners such as Gruner + Jahr, Hearst and Rodale Press.
Which areas of interest are covered by Mondadori magazines?
Mondadori's magazine portfolio includes over 40 titles covering a very wide range of interests and needs in different targets: architecture, homes, cars, cinema, cooking, interior design, women's magazines, geography & nature, computers, newsmagazines, culture, health & fitness, science and technology, TV guides, men, 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 27%. It is followed by Condè Nast with a 18% share, the RCS Mediagroup with a 17% share, Manzoni with 10%, Hachette Rusconi with 9%, Universo with 2%, Cairo with 5%. The remaining 12% of the market is accounted by other publishers.
Which titles does Mondadori Pubblicità have in its portfolio?
Mondadori Pubblicità sells advertising for all of the Mondadori Group's titles, websites and the national radio station R101, as well as for third parties publishers and the national radio Kiss Kiss.
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 Cemit Interactive Media, Mondolibri, BOL Italia, Mondadori Franchising and Mondadori Retail.
How many Mondadori book stores are there?
The Mondadori network has more than 480 stores.
How can one open a Mondadori franchised book store?
For further information please refer to www.libreriemondadori.com/mondadori/index.hp
Where can I find information about job opportunities in the Mondadori Group?
In the Lavora con noi 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, register in the Lavora con noi section of this site, accessible directly from the home page.
What is the Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori? The Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori is a 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 RTI, 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.