Month: December 2013

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. has announced that the modifications, requested by Consob, to the Disclosure Document published on 21 November 2013, have been made and the document is now available at the company’s headquarters, at Borsa Italiana and on www.gruppomondadori.it (in the Governance section).

The document refers to the operation with related parties concerning the contribution of the business activities regarding the sale of advertising for magazines and radio stations by the subsidiaries Mondadori Pubblicità S.p.A. and Mediamond S.p.A.

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., the corporate events scheduled for 2014:

– Thursday 27 March 2014: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2013;

– Tuesday 13 May 2014: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the 1st Quarter Report to 31 March 2014;

– Thursday 31 July 2014: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the Interim Report to 30 June 2014;

– Wednesday 12 November 2014: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the 3rd Quarter Report to 30 September 2014.

The Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders for the approval of the Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2013 will be held on Wednesday 30 April 2014.

Analysts’ presentations of the results for the full year to 31 December 2013, the interim report to 30 June 2014 and the reports on the first and third quarters of 2014 will be held on the dates, as indicated above, of the respective meetings of the Board of Directors.

Any eventual changes will be promptly communicated to the market.

This year Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni sends out its Christmas greetings to readers in a very special way and involving many of the best loved names from TV, music and the cinema with a big charity initiative on behalf of the AMS Onlus, a charity that supports the search for cures of blood diseases.

“Auguri d’artista” is the result of the special relationship between Sorrisi and the world of entertainment, and is a project that has produced 26 exclusive Christmas cards, from 26 personalities of the calibre of Giovanni Allevi, Alessandra Amoroso, Biagio Antonacci, Manuela Arcuri, Paolo Bonolis, Carlo Conti, Antonella Clerici, Tiziano Ferro, Fabri Fibra, Fiorello, Gabriel Garko, Giorgia, Michelle Hunziker, Alessia Marcuzzi, Emma Marrone, Marco Mengoni, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Moreno, Massimiliano Morra, Giorgio Panariello, Gino Paoli, Paola Perego, Leonardo Pieraccioni, Vasco Rossi, as well as Geronimo Stilton and the Telegatto.

Each of them has brought their personal view of Christmas and produced a design, a greeting, a cartoon, a collage or other original contributions in the form of a Christmas card that readers will find as a gift in every copy of Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni, on newsstands from tomorrow, Tuesday 10 December.

Among the snowmen, guiding stars and other typically Christmassy subjects, there are some stand out contributions, including the drawing skills of Manuela Arcuri, Gabriel Garko and Tiziano Ferro, but also the collages made by Fiorello and Giovanni Allevi, word games by Carlo Conti and the greetings by Leonardo Pieraccioni and Gino Paoli; meanwhile Antonella Clerici and Alessia Marcuzzi got their children to design their cards.

The most enthusiastic fans have the possibility of winning the original designs by taking part in the charity auction, that will run until 16 December on www.charitystars.com/tvsorrisicanzoni, on the platform that supports non-profit organisations to collect funds for charitable use with the help of celebrities.

The complete collection of 26 Christmas cards is on sale at www.shopforyou.it, while individual cards can be bought at 3,000 newsstands around the country and from Mondadori stores in Italy’s main cities and towns.

All of the proceeds will go to the AMS – Associazione Malattie del Sangue Onlus, that works alongside the doctors and researchers at the Haematology Unit of the Niguarda Ca’ Granda hospital in Milan for the development of the most advanced treatment of blood disease. In particular, the money raised will go to the “Sorrisi in corsia” (Smiles on the Ward) project, that supports nursing staff.

Mondadori Pubblicità has announced that on 31 December 2013 it will stop handling the sales of advertising for the Periodici San Paolo titles: Famiglia Cristiana, Benessere and Credere.

The decision will enable the company to concentrate even more its resources and efforts on the magazines of the Mondadori Group, in line with the more broad-ranging plans for innovation in the company’s business model.

“We want to thank Periodici San Paolo for the long and excellent relationship that we have built together over the years,” said Paolo Salvaderi, general manager of Mondadori Pubblicità. “We have accompanied the publisher through a period of growth that has led to the success of some of the most appreciated titles in the sector with, in particular, very good results in terms of advertising sales for the relaunch of Famiglia Cristiana and the recent launch of two new titles.”

“Our collaboration with Mondadori Pubblicità has enables us to reach important breakthroughs in really tough times,” declared Maurizio D’Adda, general manager of Periodici San Paolo. “We want to thank them for their professionalism and the dedication to work that they have always shown and we respect their decision to focus on the media that they publish themselves.”