Grupo Globo

Globo Comunicação e Participações S.A.
Private
Industry Media conglomerate
Founded 1925
Founder
  • Familia Marinho
Headquarters Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Area served
Worldwide
Products
Revenue Increase US$ 16.2 billion (2014)[1]
Increase US$ 1.4 billion (2012)[2]
Number of employees
15,000
Subsidiaries Rede Globo, Radio Globo
Website Grupo Globo
Rede Globo Headquarters in São Paulo.
Historic logo of Organizações Globo in the design by Hans Donner.

Grupo Globo (formerly known as Organizações Globo[3] (English: Globo Organization[4])) is the largest mass media group of Latin America, founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1925 by Roberto Irineu Marinho. It also formerly owned companies on the food industry and the real estate and financial markets.

The first enterprise of the company was the newspaper A Noite, founded by Familia Marinho. With the success of the newspaper, published on the late afternoon, he decided to launch the morning daily O Globo in 1925. After the sudden death of his father, just weeks after the launch of O Globo, Roberto Irineu Marinho became the director of the company. Working actively on the media business, Roberto decided to invest in other areas and launched Radio Globo on 1944. However, the company only became recognizable nationwide after the launching of Rede Globo, the second-largest commercial TV network in the world,[5] in 1965.

Today the company is run by Roberto Irineu Marinho, João Roberto Marinho, and José Roberto Marinho. In May 2013, a study released by media agency ZenithOptimedia showed Globo occupied the 17th place in a list with the top global media owners. It was the first time the company appeared on this ranking. [6]

Holdings

Television production centers:

Television channels

1 - It is a joint-venture with 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount Pictures.

2 - It is a joint-venture with NBC Universal. Half of the shares belongs to Organizações Globo.

3 - Playboy do Brasil is a joint-venture created from the association between Globosat and Playboy TV Latin America.

International correspondents of Network Globo

Satellite and cable TV

Radio stations

Web-radios

Corporate Radios

Audio channels of SKY Brasil and NET

Newspapers

Internet pages

Magazines

Custom Magazines

Comic Books

Books

Music label

Cinema and home video

Classifieds

Games

Television production company

Real estate agency

Food industry

Other products

References

  1. "Receita cresce, mas cai lucro do Grupo Globo". UOL. Grupo Folha. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
  2. "Melhores e Maiores". Exame.com. Editora Abril. Retrieved August 5, 2012.
  3. "Organizações Globo adotam nova marca: Grupo Globo". O Globo (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Grupo Globo. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  4. Globo.com - Other Media, Rede Globo, retrieved May 29, 2011
  5. "Rede Globo se torna a 2ª maior emissora do mundo" (in Portuguese). O Fuxico. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  6. http://www.zenithoptimedia.com/zenith/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Top-30-Global-Media-Owners-2013-press-release.pdf
  7. "INA Global - Television - Article - Organizações Globo". INA Global. Retrieved May 29, 2011.

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