Grupo Abril (simply also known as Abril) is a Brazilian

media conglomerate A media conglomerate, media group, or media institution is a company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises, such as music, television, radio, publishing, motion pictures, theme parks, or the Internet. According to the ...

headquartered in

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...

. The company is the holding company of

Editora Abril Editora Abril is a major Brazilian publisher and printing company and one of the biggest media holdings in Latin America. The company was founded in 1950 by Victor Civita in São Paulo and is now part of Grupo Abril. Civita had initially founded h ...

, which publishes the weekly newsmagazine ''

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.''

History and profile

Victor Civita Victor Civita (February 9, 1907 - August 24, 1990) was an Italian-Brazilian journalist and publisher. His family emigrated from Italy to New York in 1938 following passage of the Race Law. In 1949 Civita relocated his family to Brazil, where he e ...

, 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 books. Gradually, he developed magazines for specific markets. In the 1960s, with his son

Roberto Civita Roberto F. Civita (9 August 1936 – 26 May 2013) was a Brazilian businessman and publisher. Born in Italy, he emigrated at the age of two with his family to New York in 1938 to escape effects of the Race Laws. They moved again to Brazil in 194 ...

, he expanded to publishing several market-specific magazines, such as ''Quatro Rodas'', ''Claudia'', and others. ''

,'' the weekly newsmagazine, was founded in 1968 and led by the younger Civita. Abril had several partnerships in the emerging Brazilian pay TV market during the 90s, including local franchises of American channels such as

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MTV MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...

and

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. The company also entered in cable TV provider service with

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and in the satellite television market with local version of

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. With exception of MTV and TVA, all properties were sold until beginning of the 2000s. In 2007, Fiz TV and Ideal channels were launched in an effort to return to the pay TV market, but was a failure and the project was discontinued in 2009. Later, TVA was completely sold to Telefónica in 2012, MTV brand was returned to Viacom and its broadcast network was sold to Grupo Spring, which publishes the Brazilian edition of

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, in the end of 2013. Grupo Abril also is the owner of Fernando Chinaglia, the largest distributor of publications in

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, acquired in 2007. 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. Today, the group is chaired by Fábio Barbosa, after the death of Roberto Civita on May 26, 2013.

Assets

Abril Mídia

Magazines

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Superinteressante ''Superinteressante'' (Portuguese for "super interesting"), or ''Super'', is a Brazilian science and culture magazine. ''Super'' employs simple language to explain complex topics to the general public. It is published monthly since September 1987 b ...

'' (Brazilian version of ''

Muy Interesante ''Muy Interesante'' (meaning ''Very Interesting'' in English) is a monthly popular science magazine which deals with fun facts and current events, such as the development of nanotechnology, physics, biology, astronomy, genetics, neurosciences, ...

'') *''

Mundo Estranho ''Mundo Estranho'' (literally "''Strange World'' in Portuguese), first issued November 2001, was a monthly diversities and fun facts magazine, very popular among Brazilian teenagers and one of the country's most popular magazine of its type. It ...

'' (Superinteressante spinoff) *''Aventuras na História'' (Superinteressante spinoff) *''Exame'' * VIP *Placar *Capricho *''Quatro Rodas'' *''

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'' (Brazilian version of

Cosmopolitan Cosmopolitan may refer to: Food and drink * Cosmopolitan (cocktail), also known as a "Cosmo" History * Rootless cosmopolitan, a Soviet derogatory epithet during Joseph Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign of 1949–1953 Hotels and resorts * Cosmopoli ...

) *''Estilo de Vida'' (Brazilian version of

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) *''Elle'' *''Claudia'' *''Manequim'' *

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*Saúde! É Vital *Caras *Casa Claudia *Arquitetura & Construção *Minha Casa *

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*Vida Simples Abril website with all magazines published
retrieved in October 2012 (pt)

Television

(joint venture with Telefónica) *

Ideal Ideal may refer to: Philosophy * Ideal (ethics), values that one actively pursues as goals * Platonic ideal, a philosophical idea of trueness of form, associated with Plato Mathematics * Ideal (ring theory), special subsets of a ring considere ...

(originally closed due to low carriage and viewership, however, returned in October 2013, replacing MTV Brasil)

Out-of-home advertising

* Rede Elemídia

Abril Educação

Publishers

* Editora Ática

Teaching systems

* Anglo *

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*GEO *

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Ei Você EI or Ei may refer to: Arts and media * "E.I." (song), a single by Nelly * E/I, a type of children's television programming shown in the United States * ''Ei'' (album), an album by Maija Vilkkumaa ** "Ei" (song), its first single * ''Eerie, Ind ...

* Edumobi * Alfacon - Preparatório para Concursos *Escola Satélite

Past assets

*MTV Brasil Ltda. (before named MTV Brasil, in 2005 change by enterprise Abril Radiodifusão) * MTV Brasil (was replaced after the business was returned to Viacom in October 2013) *

Listel An annulet is a small square component in the Doric capital, under the quarter-round. It is also called a fillet or listel, although ' and ' are also more general terms for a narrow band or strip, "a narrow band in architecture: fillet" such a ...

(sold to BellSouth, now part of Carvajal-owned Publicar) *Disney Channel (stake sold to

Disney Channel Brazil Disney Channel is a Latin American pay television network broadcasting throughout Hispanic America and Brazil. It was officially launched on July 27, 2000 as a premium-label channel in Hispanic America, and also in Brazil back on April 5, 2001 ...

) * UOL (with operations to Grupo Folha) * Abril Vídeo (closed in 1999, replaced with Brazilian subsidiaries of

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and

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment (commonly referred to as 20th Home Video, or 20th Home Entertainment, formerly known as 20th Century-Fox Video, CBS/Fox Video, Fox Video, and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment) is a home video label of Wa ...

) *Abril Music (record label operated between 1998 and 2003, ceased operations due to competition from major record companies) *

Bravo Brasil Bravo(s) or The Bravo(s) may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music Groups and labels *Bravo (band), a Russian rock band *Bravo (Spanish group), represented Spain at Eurovision 1984 *Bravo Music, an American concert band music publishing company ...

(a joint venture with the American cable network

Bravo Bravo(s) or The Bravo(s) may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music Groups and labels *Bravo (band), a Russian rock band * Bravo (Spanish group), represented Spain at Eurovision 1984 *Bravo Music, an American concert band music publishing company ...

, currently Pramer-owned Film&Arts) * CMT Brasil (the Brazilian version of

Country Music Television Country Music Television (CMT) is an American pay TV network owned by Paramount Media Networks, a division of Paramount Global. Launched on March 5, 1983, as Country Music Television, CMT was the first nationally available channel devoted to coun ...

, a

joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to acces ...

with the network closed in 2002) * Fiz (closed due to low carriage and viewership, concept lives throug
Fiz na MTV
*BRZ (between 2012 and 2014)

Abril Vídeo

Abril Vídeo was a home video division for TV shows, videos and movies on VHS. Began operation on April 6, 1983 and closed in 1999. It distributed Brazilian tapes of

The Walt Disney Company The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...

and

20th Century Fox 20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. As of 2019, it serves as a film production arm of Walt Dis ...

movies.

References

External links

Abril website
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