Leya

Grupo LeYa is a Portuguese multinational book publishing company established in January 2008 as a holding company incorporating some of the most biggest Portuguese publishers, two of the large African publishers and a smaller Brazilian publisher ^[1]. LeYa is the largest general-interest trade book publisher but it also publishes fiction, nonfiction and children’s books, being also one of the most important Portuguese textbook and study book publisher. ^[2].

Isaias Gomes Teixeira a Board Member, has announced in 2008, that the LeYa's revenue target was circa 90M Euros and that they aimed to publish around 1,000 different books in 2008 ^[3].

Some of the notable authors Grupo Leya represents some of the most renowned writers in the Portuguese-speaking world, including José Saramago, Lobo Antunes, Miguel Sousa Tavares, Jose Agualusa amongst others

Subsidiaries

• Texto Editores created in 1977, based in Amadora, Portugal.
• Edições Asa, founded in 1951 and acquired in 2007
• Editorial Caminho, founded in 1975, acquired in 2007 and best known for publishing José Saramago works.
• Dom Quixote, founded in 1965 and acquired from Planeta in 2007.
• Gailivro, founded in 1987 and acquired in 2007.
• Nova Gaia, founded in 1985 and acquired in 2007.
• Oficina do Livro and Casa das Letras, the former publishing company of Diário de Notícias, acquired in 2008.
• Academia do Livro
• Caderno
• Estrela Polar
• Livros d'Hoje
• Lua de Papel
• Ndjira, from Mozambique
• Novagaia
• Nzila, from Angola
• Quinta Essência
• Sebenta
• Teorema

Investors

It was announced in August 2011, that Trilantic Capital Partners $66m purchase of a minority stake in Grupo LeYa in January ^[4]

External links

• Leya Group Home Page

References