Grupo Abril

Grupo Abril

Type	Private
Industry	Media conglomerate
Founded	(1950)
Headquarters	São Paulo, Brazil
Key people	Roberto Civita, (CEO)
Products	Publisher, Internet, Television
Revenue	US$ 4.2 Billion (2010)
Net income	US$ 209.5 Million (2010)
Employees	10.300
Subsidiaries	Editora Abril, TVA, Abril Radiodifusão
Website	www.grupoabril.com.br

Headquarters of Grupo Abril in São Paulo.

Grupo Abril is the second largest Brazilian media conglomerate with its headquarter in São Paulo. The group is the holding company of Editora Abril, who publishes the weekly newsmagazine Veja.

The Group has a partnership with Brazilian TV-channel HBO Brasil, Cinemax, Sony Entertainment Television, Warner Channel), ESPN Brasil, Bravo Brasil, Eurochannel, Country Music Television and MTV Brasil (a joint venture with the American conglomerate Viacom), but currently holds only the MTV Brazil, the Fiz and the Ideal. Moreover, the group was the pioneer in Pay television in Brazil, launching the TVA, and now also sells wide-band access to the Internet by Ajato. It was also the first company to launch a digital TV service via satellite, TVA Digisat, which was replaced by DIRECTV later.

The group startet with Editora Abril in 1950, founded by Victor Civita. Today the group is chaired by his son Roberto Civita.

On 11 October 2007, Grupo Abril acquired Fernando Chinaglia Distribuidora, which is now the largest distributor of publications in Latin America.

Assets

Abril Mídia

Magazines

• Veja
• Superinteressante (Brazilian version of Muy Interesante)
• Mundo Estranho (Superinteressante spinoff)
• Aventuras na História (Superinteressante spinoff)
• Exame
• Você S.A. (Exame spinoff)
• Info Exame
• VIP
• Playboy (Brazilian version)
• Men's Health (Brazilian version)
• Women's Health (Brazilian version)
• Placar
• Capricho
• Quatro Rodas
• Nova (Brazilian version of Cosmopolitan)
• Estilo de Vida (Brazilian version of InStyle)
• Elle
• Claudia
• Manequim
• Boa Forma
• Saúde! É Vital
• National Geographic (Brazilian version)
• Viva! Mais
• Ti Ti Ti
• Contigo!
• Caras
• Minha Novela
• Sou + Eu!
• Casa Claudia
• Arquitetura & Construção
• Minha Casa
• Recreio
• Vida Simples
• Bravo!
• Runner's World (Brazilian version)
• Alfa
• Lola

Television

• TVA (joint venture with Telefónica)
• MTV Brasil

Out-of-home advertising

• Rede Elemídia

Abril Educação

• Editora Ática
• Editora Scipione
• Anglo Vestibulares
• Anglo Sistema de Ensino
• Colégio e Curso pH
• SIGA Concursos
• Sistema de Ensino SER

Past assets

• ESPN Brasil (stake sold to ESPN)
• Listel (sold to BellSouth, now part of Carvajal-owned Publicar)
• HBO Brasil (stake sold to HBO Latin America)
• Brasil Online (merged with UOL)
• UOL (stake sold to Grupo Folha)
• Abril Vídeo (closed in 1999, replaced with subsidiaries of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)
• Bravo Brasil (a joint venture with the American cable network Bravo. Currently Pramer-owned Film&Arts
• CMT Brasil (the Brazilian version of Country Music Television, a joint venture with Gaylord Entertainment Company, the network closed in 2002)
• Fiz (closed due to low carriage and viewership, concept lives through Fiz na MTV)
• Ideal (closed due to low carriage and viewership)

Abril Vídeo

Abril Vídeo is introduced from TV shows, videos and movies on VHS Launched on April 6, 1983 until June 9, 1999 on Grupo Abril. It's founded from the 1990s with Abril Music.

External links

• Abril website