Month: January 2015

Mondadori: corporate calendar 2015

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 2015:

– Thursday 12 March 2015: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2014;

– Tuesday 12 May 2015: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the 1st Quarter Report to 31 March 2015;

– Tuesday 28 July 2015: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the Interim Report to 30 June 2015;

– Thursday 5 November 2015: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the 3rd Quarter Report to 30 September 2015.

The Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders for the approval of the Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2014 will be held on Thursday 23 April 2015.

Analysts’ presentations of the results for the full year to 31 December 2014, the interim report to 30 June 2015 and the reports on the first and third quarters of 2015 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.

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Donnamoderna.com: new online casting

New features for donnevere.donnamoderna.com, the site for users who want to become “models” for the weekly

Donna Moderna is the only women’s magazine in Italy that uses non-professional models in its fashion, but prefers to use “real women” of all ages and sizes: students, mothers, office workers, artisans, career women, in other words, normal women. All of who are immortalised by leading photographers and making it possible for them to realise the dream of wearing beautiful clothes and posing for an exclusive fashion shoot.

From today becoming a candidate to become the protagonist of one of these fashion services is easier than ever. The title’s online casting site has been completely updated to enable greater interaction between the magazine and its readers.

All that is necessary is for users to connect to the web site donnevere.donnamoderna.com, upload a photo or video, write a few words about themselves and share the information also on social networks.

“For more than three years Donna Moderna has been putting real women on the cover and the results have been absolutely positive: issue after issue we have strengthened the philosophy of the weekly,” said the editor Annalisa Monfreda. “In other words, that any woman can do it, she can see herself as beautiful and learn to like herself. Our women don’t want perfection, but happiness. And feeling good about yourself is a big help,” Monfreda concluded.

The redesign of donnevere.donnamoderna.com can be seen from the layout: appealing, but at the same time clean and intuitive, to help users create their profile in just a few clear and simple steps.

The section for online casting will be even easier to use thanks to the optimisation for all mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) and will be interesting to consult thanks to the new photo gallery featuring all of the Donna Moderna covers and the profiles of the “real women” who have become protagonists of the magazine’s fashion and beauty pages.

Also thanks to the new donnevere.donnamoderna.com, Donna Moderna is an authentic cross community that brings together users and readers with the magazine’s editorial staff who every week select the most suitable faces for the cover of the weekly, realising the dream of every reader.

Mondadori Libri S.p.A. Board of Directors: appointments

Ernesto Mauri Chairman; Enrico Selva Coddè Managing Director of the trade area; Antonio Porro Managing Director of the educational area

Gian Arturo Ferrari appointed Deputy Chairman of Mondadori Libri S.p.A.; Oddone Pozzi, Group’s Head of Finance, Procurement and IT, elected as director of the Board

Segrate, 21 January 2015 – The Board of Directors of Mondadori Libri S.p.A., held on today’s date, resolved upon the following appointments: Ernesto Mauri Chairman; Enrico Selva Coddè, Gian Arturo Ferrari, Antonio Porro and Oddone Pozzi Directors.

Specifically – reporting to the Group’s CEO Ernesto Mauri – Enrico Selva Coddè is appointed Managing Director of Mondadori Libri S.p.A. for the Trade area and Antonio Porro is confirmed Managing Director of the Educational area.

Gian Arturo Ferrari, Deputy Chairman of Mondadori Libri S.p.A., will work in co-operation with Enrico Selva, Managing Director of the Trade area, for the implementation and publication of the publishing programmes.

“This configuration enables a more functional structure aiming at potentially further developing a strategically key business for us as we hold a leadership position with a 26% market share in the Trade area and a 13% market share in the Educational area”, underlined Ernesto Mauri, CEO of Mondadori Group.

“The scenario of the publishing market is still declining and this means that we need to increasingly keep our focus on innovation and management efficiency, while streamlining processes with a view to increasing profitability in a strategically key sector for our company”, Mauri continued. “The new organization, which I am proud of also for the excellence of its professional competencies, will enable the management to use all leverages to achieve the projected results”.

Born in Milan in 1961 and with two degrees (engineering and philosophy), Enrico Selva Coddè 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 Magazines areas. From 1999 to 2002 he was Head of Operations at Rizzoli Newspapers.

In 2002 he returned to Mondadori Group as General Manager of Giulio Einaudi editore; later he was appointed Managing Director holding the office from 2003 to 2008.

He was then appointed Head of Human Resources, Organization and IT of the Mondadori Group and since July 2014 he is Vice President of FIEG and President of FIEG category of large-scale magazine publishers.

Born in Milan in 1965, Antonio Porro has a degree in economics and business administration from the Catholic University of Milan. He began his career with Mondadori in the early 1990s as Head of project development. He then joined Telecom Italia covering positions with growing responsibility for over ten years, up from the Business Division to the International Division.

In January 2009 he returned to Mondadori as Head of the Group’s Mergers & Acquisitions. In June 2011 he was appointed General Manager of the Educational area and subsequently he was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of Mondadori Education S.p.A. and Mondadori Electa S.p.A., offices that are confirmed to him by today’s Board resolution.

It should be noted that the stakes owned in the publishing houses operating in the Trade, Arts and Educational areas – Edizioni Piemme S.p.A. (100%), Giulio Einaudi editore S.p.A. (100%), Mondadori Education S.p.A. (100%), Mondadori Electa S.p.A. (100%), Sperling & Kupfer Editori S.p.A. (100%), Harlequin Mondadori S.p.A. (50%) – and in the company operating in the distribution area – Mach 2 Libri S.p.A. (34.91%) – were contributed to Mondadori Libri S.p.A., which started operations on 1 January 2015.

At 31 December 2013 the Books area of the Mondadori Group posted revenues for a total of euro 334.3 million with EBITDA at euro 46.2 million.

Annalisa Monfreda, editor of Donna Moderna, takes over the editorship also of the weekly Starbene

From today editorial responsibility for the weeklies Donna Moderna and Starbene will be combined under Annalisa Monfreda, currently the editor-in-chief of Donna Moderna.

At the same time, the editorship of Confidenze will be passed to Susanna Barbaglia, already the title’s deputy editor.

Mondadori wishes to thanks Cristina Merlino for the years spent at the helm of Starbene and the web site Starbene.it.

INTERNI: the latest issue is all about internationality and the “Design Melting Pot”

Also available from 20 January, the first App “Design Guide Paris 2015”

The new year for INTERNI begins on the trail of internationality and the “Design Melting Pot”.

To give greater prominence to the theme, the January/February double issue will be in English (with the Italian translation at the end) and will be distributed in Cologne (IMM Cologne, from 19 to 25 January), Paris (Maison&Objet, 23 to 27 January 2015) and Berlin in stations and airports during major creativity events, as well as in many luxury hotels, art galleries, and design & fashion boutiques. The issue will also be distributed in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangkok, Beijing, Shanghai, São Paulo and New York.

“The hybrid identity of contemporary design is the running theme of this international issue,” said Gilda Bojardi, editor of INTERNI. “The subject is introduced by a range of selected architecture, from Antwerp to Rotterdam, from Portugal to Great Britain, all types of architecture that experiment with a curious mix of functions linked to the theme of hospitality, interpreted by multi-award-winning names from the international architecture and design world: from Alvaro Siza to Vincent Van Duysen, from MVRDV to Paola Navone, from Thomas Heatherwick to Karim Rashid, and the Spanish designer Carme Pinós.”

The pages of the magazine dedicated to design feature global challenges: through a survey of studios work on strategic projects, we try to understand how the profession is being transformed in relation to the needs of global brands. Then, with a focus on the designers of the first Internet generation, INTERNI tries to answer the question: What is lost in terms of local specificity and what is gained in the worldwide melting pot?

2015 opens for INTERNI also with another great news: from 20 January, the App – Design Guide Paris 2015 – will be available online (free for Apple and Android devices). Available in a bilingual French/English version, it highlights the most exclusive events of the Paris Design Week, the main points of interest related to the world of design, a selection of hotels, restaurants, shops, museums and much more, as well as useful information and detailed photo galleries. As always, it is an information tool and guide for visitors to the event in Paris along with Maison&Objet, but this year the Guide will remain constantly active and will be continuously updated to provide visitors to the capitals of the world design the authoritative view of INTERNI on the currently most relevant design destinations.

The January/February issue of INTERNI comes with the supplement, the Design Index Guide also available on the web and mobile, through the web app Guidaindex.com. An authentic Who’s Who of the world of Italian design that includes over 8,000 addresses: producers and what they produce, where to buy, who designs, who photographs, who advertises, who publishes, who teaches, who organises and who displays.

The process of internationalization of INTERNI will continue during 2015 with other important events related to design, such as those in New York, London and Miami, cities where the magazine will be present, as well as with the distribution of copies, with a programme of dedicated events and with the App Design Guide: an ambitious project in order to be always on the side of design companies engaged in markets across the world.