Cairo Communication S.p.A. is an Italian media and publishing company based in Milan. The shares of the company float in
Borsa Italiana.
Urbano Cairo
Urbano Cairo (born 21 May 1957) is an Italian businessman and chairman of Torino F.C.
Cairo is a native of Milan. His principal business interest is in Cairo Communication, a business which he founded. At as mid-2016, Cairo via U.T. Communica ...
, via UT Communications, UT Belgium Holding, owned 50.101% stake of the company. In turn Cairo Communication owned 59.693% stake of fellow media company
RCS MediaGroup
RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. (formerly Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera), based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, radio broadcasting, n ...
, which was acquired in 2016.
History
Urbano Cairo
Urbano Cairo (born 21 May 1957) is an Italian businessman and chairman of Torino F.C.
Cairo is a native of Milan. His principal business interest is in Cairo Communication, a business which he founded. At as mid-2016, Cairo via U.T. Communica ...
found a company Cairo Pubblicità in 1995, which wholesale advertisement space for
RCS MediaGroup
RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. (formerly Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera), based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, radio broadcasting, n ...
. In 1997 Cairo acquired a company which found in 1984, and renamed into Cairo Communication, as the holding company of his media empire. Cairo Communication acquired
La7
La7 is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned by Cairo Communication. Until 2013 it was a pay-per-view channel owned by Telecom Italia Media and operated by Telecom Italia.
Signal overspill means that parts of Albania, Croatia, Swi ...
in 2013 from
Telecom Italia
Gruppo TIM, legally TIM S.p.A. (formerly Telecom Italia S.p.A.), also known as the TIM Group in English, is an Italian telecommunications company with headquarters in Rome, Milan, and Naples, (with the Telecom Italia Tower) which provides fixed ...
.
In 2016 Cairo Communication acquired RCS MediaGroup by offering to buy the shares from the public market, which was more favor than the offer from the rival consortium.
Publications and subsidiaries
* Cairo Editore
** Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori
*** ''
Airone
''Airone'' ( en, Heron) is an Italian science magazine devoted to science and technology issues. It is published in Milan, Italy, by Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori (former company, now a division of Cairo Editore, a subsidiary of Cairo Communicat ...
''
***Edizioni Anabasi s.r.l.
*
RCS MediaGroup
RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. (formerly Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera), based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, radio broadcasting, n ...
*
La7
La7 is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned by Cairo Communication. Until 2013 it was a pay-per-view channel owned by Telecom Italia Media and operated by Telecom Italia.
Signal overspill means that parts of Albania, Croatia, Swi ...
S.p.A.
* Cairo Network s.r.l.
* Cairo Pubblicità S.p.A.
* Cairo Publishing S.r.l.
* ''Il Trovatore''
References
External links
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Television networks in Italy
Italian-language television networks
Mass media in Milan
Publishing companies of Italy
Publishing companies established in 1995
Italian companies established in 1995
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