Grupo Abril

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Grupo Abril S.A.
Type Private
Industry Media conglomerate
Founded 1950
Headquarters São Paulo, Brazil
Key people Roberto Civita (CEO)
Products Publisher, Internet, Television
Revenue Increase US$5.0 billion (2012)
Net income Increase US$400.0 million (2012)
Employees 10,300
Subsidiaries Editora Abril, TVA, Abril Radiodifusão
Website www.grupoabril.com.br
Headquarters of Grupo Abril in São Paulo.

Grupo Abril is the second largest Brazilian media conglomerate and has its headquarters in São Paulo. The group is the holding company of Editora Abril, which publishes the weekly newsmagazine Veja.

The Group has a partnership with Brazilian TV-channel HBO Brasil, Cinemax, Sony Entertainment Television, Warner Channel), ESPN Brasil, Bravo Brasil, Eurochannel, Country Music Television and MTV Brasil (a joint venture with the American conglomerate Viacom); it holds the MTV Brasil, the Fiz and the Ideal. The group was the pioneer in Pay television in Brazil, launching the TVA, and now also sells wide-band access to the Internet by Ajato. It was the first company to launch a digital TV service via satellite, TVA Digisat, which was later replaced by DIRECTV later.

In addition to its media interests, the group has entered the education market, with assets that produce many curriculum and instructional materials, including internet applications.

Victor Civita, an Italian businessman, founded Editora Abril in 1950, which was the first publisher of Walt Disney comics in Brazil. He also published other comics and literature. Gradually he developed magazines for specific markets. In the 1960s, with his son Roberto Civita, he expanded to publishing several market-specific magazines, such as Quatro Rodas, Claudia, and others. Veja, the weekly newsmagazine, was founded in 1968 and led by the younger Civita. The company was also getting into radio and TV ventures, eventually forming Grupo Abril. Today the group is chaired by Roberto Civita.

On 11 October 2007, Grupo Abril acquired Fernando Chinaglia Distribuidora, the largest distributor of publications in Latin America.

Assets

Abril Mídia

Magazines

Television

Out-of-home advertising

  • Rede Elemídia

Abril Educação

Editoras:

  • Editora Ática
  • Editora Scipione

Sistemas de Ensino:

Cusrsos e Colégios:

  • Anglo Vestibulares
  • Colégio Motivo
  • Colégio pH
  • Alfacon Concursos
  • Colegio Sigma

Inglês:

Novos Negócios:

  • O Lider em Mim
  • Sistema de Ensino Técnico ETB
  • Ei Você
  • Edumobi
  • Alfacon - Preparatório para Concursos
  • Escola Satélite

Past assets

Abril Vídeo

Abril Vídeo is introduced from TV shows, videos and movies on VHS Launched on April 6, 1983 until June 9, 1999 on Grupo Abril. It's founded from the 1990s with Abril Music. It distribuites brazilian tapes of The Walt Disney Company and 20th Century Fox movies.

References

  1. ↑ Abril website with all magazines published retrieved July 20, 2011 (pt)

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