Unidad Editorial


Unidad Editorial, S.A. is a Spanish media company. It owns the newspapers El Mundo, Expansión and Diario Marca. It is primarily owned by the Italian holding RCS MediaGroup.

History

Unidad Editorial emerged in 2007 after the merger of two media companies, namely Unedisa and.
Grupo Recoletos was the publisher of the newspapers Marca, Expansión and the magazines Actualidad Económica and Telva. Unedisa was the publisher of El Mundo, founded in 1989 by Pedro J. Ramírez. Back in 2000, Veo Televisión had been also conceded one of the two new DTT licenses granted by People's Party government.
Following the leaving of Pedro J. Ramírez from El Mundo in 2014, RCS MediaGroup asserted a tighter control over Unidad Editorial. In 2016, RCS MediaGroup was acquired in a takeover by Urbano Cairo, who had support from the Intesa Sanpaolo banking group.

Holdings

Newspapers

In 2006, the share of the newspapers controlled by the founding companies was 10% in the Spanish press market.
  • El Mundo
  • Expansión
  • Diario Marca
  • El Cronista
  • ''Diario Información''

    Magazines

  • Actualidad Económica
  • NBA
  • ''Arte''

    Television

Unidad Editorial is the owner of. Through Veo TV, Unidad Editorial has one of the DTT licenses in Spain, leased to third parties.

Radio

  • Ownership

Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup owns 96.48% of Unidad Editorial.