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The Spanish media and publishing sector and its sales in 2019


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BY : Diego GutiérrezFebruary Thu, 2019

The media and publishing sector is going strong. In the first few months of this year, a number of takeovers have been confirmed in the sector. The companies Prensa Ibérica or Editorial Ecoprensa can attest to this.

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The Spanish media and publishing sector and its sales in 2019

We have analysed five operations of sale of companies in the sector and always with some link to companies located in Spain. We talked about the two parties involved in each transaction and the reasons why they decided to carry out these operations. The sales were as follows:

1. Editorial Ecoprensa

La Editorial Ecoprensa fue fundada en el 2005 y desde entonces se ha dedicado to the publication of the newspaper "El Economista".. This newspaper was launched on 28 February 2006, being the first Spanish daily with integrated paper and internet newsrooms from the beginning.

On 12 February we met the sale of a part of Editorial Ecoprensa to GINgroup. Although the amount of the transaction has not been disclosed, we know that the percentage of the shareholding was 20.6%.

GINgroup es una prestadora de servicios de consultoría y soluciones integrales para la administración de capital humano con sede en Juárez, México. Con la adquisición, GINgroup fortalece la expansión internacional de su negocio editorial.

2. Editorial Leoncio Rodriguez

8 February Iberian Press reached an agreement with the El Día group to the purchase of the majority stake it holds in Editorial Leoncio Rodríguez. The amounts of the operation have not been published.

El Día es una cabecera histórica que tomó el relevo de La Prensa, un periódico cuyo primer número vio la luz, bajo la dirección de Leoncio Rodríguez, el 15 de octubre de 1910. Desde entonces es una publicación de referencia en Tenerife. El Día suma 130.447 lectores diarios en papel y 385.318 usuarios únicos al mes en digital.

The agreement guarantees the economic viability of El Día and consolidates Prensa Ibéricawhich already publishes La Opinión de Tenerife, as the leading media group in the Canary Islands, where it will exceed 265,000 daily readers and 25,000 daily copies. Prensa Ibérica's plans to relaunch the newspaper, modernise its structures and turn its financial situation around are as follows reaffirm their commitment to the Canary Islandsthe region where the group took its first steps.

3. Iberian Legal Group

Iberian Legal Group, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Madrid, is a Madrid-based company. specialising in information on the legal sector. También es editora de los contenidos de Iberian Lawyer y The Latin American Lawyer.

LC Publishing Group, grupo editorial italiano especializado en publicaciones fiscales y legales, bought the 60% from Iberian Legal Group on 30 January. The amounts of the transaction have not been made public.

The acquisition will enable the Italian company to create the largest specialist legal publisher in Southern Europe and Latin America. It will also maximise the publishing synergies between the two groupsThis is part of LC Publishing Group's international development strategy.

4. Touché Films

2btube Studios (Madrid), a company dedicated to the management of audiovisual content creators and the creation of original contentacquired a majority stake in Touché Films on 17 January. The amount of the transaction and the percentage acquired were not confirmed by either party.

Touché Films, con sede en Quito (Ecuador), es una de las fastest-growing audiovisual content producers in Latin America and is the creator of Enchufe.tv. This channel has more than 19 million subscribers and has major brands and creators as partners. Despite being a young production company, it has already made medium-length films, series, advertising and its first feature film, scheduled for release in 2019.

5. Investor Editions

Digital Economya Spanish company dedicated to media management, acquired on 8 January 100% from Inversor Ediciones. The purchase was made over the company Taller de Editores, which is a subsidiary of Vocento, and over other minority shareholders. The amount of the transaction was not made public. With this acquisition, Economía Digital expects to increase its turnover by 35%.

Investor editions is a publisher of economic-financial books. They have published books with manuals on how to value a listed company or on ratios to know for an investor.

Following the transaction, the weekly Inversión and its online portal, Finanzas.com, have been taken over by Economía Digital, which publishes Economiadigital.es, Diariogol.com, Cerodosbe.com and ED Libros.

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