Month: January 2020

Sanremo 2020 with Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni

On newsstands, on Sorrisi.com and social media special content and exclusive initiatives for readers

Also this year, Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni, Italy’s biggest-selling and most widely-read magazine, will be the unmissable point of reference for fans of the Festival della Canzone Italiana.
The Mondadori Group brand, leader in the entertainment segment with an overall audience of 4.8 million users per month (Source: Nielsen Media impact Data Fusion, July 2019), will be on the front line to follow all aspects of the 70th edition of the song festival, with special content and background coverage in the magazine, on the web site and on social media.

ON NEWSSTANDS
Starting with the issue on sale at newsstands from today, a preview of the lyrics of the songs, interviews with the artists and an exclusive cover with the complete group of singers along with the presenter and artistic director Amadeus. This will be the first of three special issues dedicated to the Festival culminating on Monday 10 February with a behind-the-scenes look at the whole week and the first cover with the winner photographed exclusively immediately after the announcement on the night.
And not to be missed, a compilation Sanremo Best, with the best songs from the Festival on three double CDs to celebrate the 70^th anniversary of the most important Italian song festival with a selection of songs that have touched the hearts of millions of fans and made entire generation sing, on newsstands from 4 February.

For the duration of the Festival, the editorial team of Sorrisi will move to Sanremo with journalists, an ad hoc photographic studio and a guest lounge with a recording studio attached. In line with tradition, the main streets of the city will be decorated with posters and life-sized cut-outs of the artists and the presenter photographed by Sorrisi very popular with the public for photos and selfies.

ON THE SITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Every day, the latest news, ratings, backstage coverage and detailed accounts of the evenings, with the best photos available on Sorrisi.com, supported by significant social media coverage.

During the evenings of the Festival, the Instagram and Facebook profiles of Sorrisi will be authentic second-screens for viewers, with content to follow the competition: from the song lyrics, to quotes and curiosities about the singers and guests, to new graphic cards for sharing comments, quizzes and surveys on IG Stories. And available for the first time new animated GIF-cards for IG with the most popular personalities, such as Elettra Lamborghini, Alberto Urso and many more.

And there will of course also be the real-time surprises of a typical day at the Festival. And also this year there will be extensive live social media coverage of meetings and encounters with the artists in the Sorrisi press room: starting in the morning with breakfast with the editor, Aldo Vitali, and a singer from the competition, until late at night, also with surprise incursions after the performances on the stage of the Ariston theatre.

The editor Aldo Vitali will also appear on a daily live slot at 10.15 on Radio Subasio.

And, finally, with the “Vinci Sanremo” competition, Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni will host 10 readers who will be able to experience the festival along with the editorial team and enjoy the show from the front row of the Ariston theatre.

For the editorial team of Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni make up and hair styling will be managed by Celebrity Stylist Events.

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Carmen Mugione Media relations - Corporate and business areas Tel. +39 02 7542 2383

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Press office Mondadori Group Tel. +39 02 7542 3159

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Grazia begins 2020 with a special Issue dedicated to sixteen years-old ‘Generation Greta Thunberg’ and the event ‘Z Generation Talks’

The talks will be moderated by the editor Silvia Grilli and Simona Ventura. Featuring: Elisa Maino, Maria Sole Pollio, Nuela and Giorgia Villa

Grazia, the leading 100% Italian fashion brand, edited by Silvia Grilli and available around the world in 20 international editions – kicks off 2020 with a special issue dedicated to sixteen year-olds, Generation Greta Thunberg and Z Generation Talks, a debate involving 8 influential young talents.

The pages of the Mondadori Group magazine, on newsstands from Thursday 16 January, will include the voices of the young people marching to save the planet along with the Swedish ecologist Greta Thunberg, and who are asking to be able to vote to change the future and bring a fresh wind to the world of enthusiasm and creativity.

Extensive space is also given to the trend-breaking American pop star Billie Eilish, who is changing music.

The cover girl is Maria Sole Pollio, the much-clicked influencer with 1 million followers, actor and presenter, and the protagonist of the 12^th season of Don Matteo.

Readers will also find interviews with and curiosities about the digital creators Elisa Maino, Marta Losito and Iris Ferrari, able to arrive at the top both on the web and with their books.

Plus the sporting champions Benedetta Pilato – the European gold-winning and young world record-holding 50m breaststroke swimmer, the gymnast Giorgia Villa and Larissa Iapichino, the athlete daughter of Fiona May, Julia Ituma the promising volleyball player, challenging in competitions and not only. The musician Nuela, and teenage influencers Giulia Zoccali, Marta Losito and Alice De Bortoli.

The ‘special’ issue of Grazia also includes two exclusive fashion feature dedicated to Generation Z, with advice on style and elegance that anticipate upcoming trends.

The younger generations will also be the focus of a series of talks moderated by the editor of Grazia Silvia Grilli together with Simona Ventura that will take place on 16 January in the Agorà at the Triennale in Milan: the protagonists of the event Z Generation Talks will be: Elisa Maino, Maria Sole Pollio, Nuelaande Giorgia Villa, Giulia Zoccali, Marita Losito and Alice De Bortoli and Lukas.

These initiatives confirm Grazia as a dynamic and contemporary media platform operating in the publishing area not only with the magazine (which has a readership of 2 million, Source: Audipress Media 2019), Grazia.it (with average traffic of 3 million unique users per month, Source: Audiweb February 2019) and social media channels (reaching 15.2 million people, Source: Facebook and Instagram Insight, October 2019) but also as a brand creator of content and special events.

Grazia has selected H&M, a democratic and sustainable fashion brand, to collaborate in the realisation of the event Z Generation Talks. Every day H&M is concretely committed to making its products and the entire fashion more sustainable, to promoting positive change and reducing the negative impact across the entire value chain, from design to cotton farming and the collection of second-hand clothes that can be given a new life.

Icon: Luca Stoppini appointed new creative director

Mondadori Group: corporate calendar 2020

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 2020:

– Tuesday 17 March 2020: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2019;

– Thursday 14 May 2020: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the Interim Management Statement at 31 March 2020;

– Thursday 30 July 2020: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the Half-Year Report at 30 June 2020;

– Tuesday 10 November 2020: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the Interim Management Statement at 30 September 2020.

The Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders for the approval of the Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2019 will be held on first calling on Wednesday 22 April 2020.

Presentations to the financial community of the results for the full year at 31 December 2019, the Half-Year Report at 30 June 2020 and the Interim Management Statements at 31 March and at 30 September 2020 will be held on the dates, as indicated above, of the respective meetings of the Board of Directors.

Any changes will be promptly communicated to the market.

Mention should be made that Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., as a company listed on the STAR segment of Borsa Italiana, will publish the Interim Management Statements at 31 March 2020 and at 30 September 2020 – pursuant to art. 2.2.3, par. 3, of the Borsa Italiana Regulations – within 45 days after the end of the first, third and fourth quarters of the year (with exemption from the publication of the interim report on the fourth quarter if the annual financial report, together with the other documents referred to in art. 154-ter, par. 1, of the Finance Consolidation Act, is made available within 90 days after year end). The Interim Management Statements will be made available, in accordance with current regulations, at the Company’s registered office, on the Company’s website www.gruppomondadori.it (Investors section), and through the authorized storage mechanism (www.1info.it), together with the relating press releases.