Month: January 2008

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. today announced, as per Art. 2.6.2 of the regulations governing markets organised and managed by Borsa Italiana S.p.A., its calendar of corporate events for 2008:

• thursday 20 March 2008: Board of Directors meeting to approve the company’s annual financial statements and balance sheet for the year ended 31 December 2007;
• wednesday 14 May 2008: Board of Directors meeting to approve the company’s report on the first quarter of 2008;wednesday 30 July 2008: Board of Directors meeting to approve the company’s interim report for the first six months of the year to 30 June 2008;
• thursday 13 November 2008: Board of Directors meeting to approve the company’s report on the third quarter of 2008.

The Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders to approve the Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2007 will be held on Tuesday 22 April 2008, on first calling, or Wednesday 23 April 2008, on second calling.

Analysts’ presentations of the results for the full year to 31 December 2007, the interim report to 30 June 2008 and the reports on the first and third quarters of 2008 will be held on the dates of the respective meetings of the Board of Directors.

Any eventual changes to the above calendar will be promptly communicated to the market.

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As per Art. 82, para. 2 of the Consob adopted with resolution n° 11971/1999 and subsequent modifications, the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year to 31 December 2007 approved by the Board of Directors will be available to the public at the corporate offices and the Borsa Italiana S.p.A. by 30 March 2008.

The company is consequently exonerated from the publication of the report on the fourth quarter of 2007.

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. today announced that Enrico Selva Coddè has been appointed as the Mondadori Group’s new head of personnel, organisation and information systems.

Born in Milan in 1961, Enrico Selva Coddè holds two degrees, in engineering and in philosophy. He began his career at Olivetti in 1987, where he worked in planning and logistics until 1991, the year he first joined Mondadori. Until 1999 he worked at Mondadori as head of human resources in the Direct Marketing, Advertising and Magazine sectors. From 1999 to 2002 he was head of operations at Rizzoli Newspapers.

In 2002 he became general manager of Giulio Einaudi Editore, before being appointed managing director in 2003, where he made a decisive contribution to the excellent results of the Turin-based publishing house, and making it Italy’s third biggest publisher.

Selva takes over from Gianfranco Righi, the Group’s head of personnel since 1994, who has taken over responsibility for the Group’s Special Projects and will report directly to the deputy chairman and chief executive, Maurizio Costa.

The Board of Directors of Mondadori Pubblicità, today appointed Angelo Sajeva, nominated managing director on 5 November 2007, also as chairman of the company.

The Board also examined the new organizational structure of the company, which foresees two new deputy general managers (“Living e Style” and “Grandi Mercati”), that will work alongside the deputy general manager “Operation” with a view to achieving an even broader control of the most important strategic sectors in the advertising market.