Month: April 2021

Shareholders’ Meeting approves 2020 financial statements

  • Appointment of the Board of Directors:
  • MARINA BERLUSCONI CHAIRMAN
  • ANTONIO PORRO NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE MONDADORI GROUP
  • Appointment of the Board of Statutory Auditors

Today, the Shareholders’ Meeting of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., chaired by Marina Berlusconi, approved the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020 and reviewed the 2020 consolidated financial statements of the Mondadori Group.

As already disclosed last 18 March, the Group’s net profit, net of minority interests, came to € 4.5 million, reflecting an impairment of € 26.5 million, versus a profit of € 28.2 million in 2019 (which included € -2.6 million from the discontinued operations of Mondadori France).

The Shareholders’ Meeting, in accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors, resolved to allocate the net profit for the year of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. at 31 December 2020 (€ 4,502,600.02) entirely to the extraordinary reserve, the legal reserve having already reached the statutory minimum amount, equal to one fifth of the share capital.

APPOINTMENT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND OF THE NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER ANTONIO PORRO

The Meeting appointed the new Board of Directors; the 12 members will remain in office for three years until approval of the financial statements for the year ending 31 December 2023.

The Board was elected based on the lists submitted by the shareholder Fininvest S.p.A., holder of no. 139,355,950 shares, equal to 53.299% of the share capital and 69.853% of the voting rights, and by a grouping of shareholders formed of asset management companies and institutional investors holding a total of no. 9,856,881 shares, equal to 3.769% of the share capital.

The members of the new Board of Directors are:

  • Marina Berlusconi (Chairman), Antonio Porro, Pier Silvio Berlusconi, Alessandro Franzosi, Elena Biffi, Danilo Pellegrino, Francesco Currò, Angelo Renoldi, Cristina Rossello, Paola Elisabetta Galbiati, Valentina Casella (drawn from the majority list submitted by the shareholder Fininvest S.p.A.);
  • Alceo Rapagna (drawn the minority list submitted by a grouping of shareholders formed of asset management companies and institutional investors).

The majority list received 80.202% of the votes cast at the Meeting.

The composition of the Board of Directors complies with the provisions on gender equality set out in Article 147-ter, paragraph 1-ter of the TUF.

The Board of Directors of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., which met after the Shareholders’ Meeting, chaired by Marina Berlusconi, appointed Antonio Porro as the new Chief Executive Officer, granting him the relating management powers.

As announced on 10 November, the appointment of Antonio Porro, in addition to being in accordance with the outcome of the succession plan adopted by the Board of Directors, is consistent with the Group’s strategies aimed at a gradual focus on the core business of Books.

The Board of Directors then assessed the meeting of the independence requirements, pursuant to Article 148, paragraph three of the TUF and the Corporate Governance Code, for Directors Elena Biffi, Paola Elisabetta Galbiati, Valentina Casella, Alceo Rapagna and Angelo Renoldi.

In making its assessments, the Board referred – taking account, among other things, of the provisions of Article 2, recommendation 7 of the Corporate Governance Code – also to the “Policy concerning the criteria for assessing the independence requirements of directors”, already adopted by Mondadori, which governs the criteria for the significance of commercial, financial or professional relationships or additional remuneration that may compromise the independence requirement.

With regard to Director Angelo Renoldi, the Board – given his high professional profile and the fact that he complies with all additional independence requirements set out in the Corporate Governance Code – resolved – in accordance with the established substance-over-form rule in assessments related to said Code – to disapply, on an individual basis, the criterion set out in recommendation 7, letter e) of the Code concerning the position held as director for more than nine financial years over the last twelve.

The Board of Directors also appointed the members of the following committees in compliance with the principles established by the Corporate Governance Code:

  • Control, Risk and Sustainability Committee: Angelo Renoldi as Chairman (independent); Alceo Rapagna (independent); Cristina Rossello;
  • Remuneration and Appointments Committee: Angelo Renoldi as Chairman (independent); Elena Biffi (independent); Cristina Rossello;
  • Related Party Committee: Elena Biffi as Chairperson (independent); Angelo Renoldi (independent); Paola Elisabetta Galbiati (independent).

The Board also appointed, until expiry of its term, therefore, until approval of the financial statements for the year ending 31 December 2023:

  • Valentina Casella as Lead Independent Director;
  • Alessandro Franzosi as Financial Reporting Manager.

The executive Directors are: Marina Berlusconi since the Chairman, while not having any specific management powers, partakes, together with the Chief Executive Officer, in the drafting of corporate strategies to be submitted to the approval of the Board of Directors, Antonio Porro (Chief Executive Officer) and Alessandro Franzosi, who qualifies as an Executive Director given his directorships in the Company associated with his role as Administration, Finance and Control Manager.

The CVs of the members of the new Board of Directors and the additional documentation required by current legislation are available in the Governance section of www.gruppomondadori.it.

Based on the information available to the Company, to date, the Directors who hold interests in the share capital of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. are:

  • Pier Silvio Berlusconi no. 172,000 shares;
  • Alessandro Franzosi no. 20,000 shares;
  • Antonio Porro no. 120,610 shares.

APPOINTMENT OF THE BOARD OF STATUTORY AUDITORS
The Shareholders’ Meeting also appointed the Board of Statutory Auditors, composed as follows:

  • Sara Fornasiero as Chairperson (drawn from the minority list submitted by a grouping of shareholders formed of asset management companies and institutional investors);
  • Ezio Maria Simonelli and Flavia Daunia Minutillo as Standing Auditors (drawn from the majority list submitted by the shareholder Fininvest S.p.A.);
  • Emilio Gatto and Annalisa Firmani, as Substitute Auditors (drawn from the majority list submitted by the shareholder Fininvest S.p.A.);
  • Mario Civetta, as Substitute Auditor (drawn from the minority list submitted by a grouping of shareholders formed of asset management companies and institutional investors).

The majority list received 80.202% of the votes cast at the Meeting.

The composition of the Board of Statutory Auditors complies with the provisions on gender equality set out in Article 148, paragraph 1-bis of the TUF.

The CVs of the members of the Board of Statutory Auditors and the additional documentation required by current legislation are available in the Governance section of www.gruppomondadori.it.

Based on the information available to the Company, to date, no member of the Board of Statutory Auditors holds any interest in the share capital of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A.

The Board, based on the declarations made by the Chairperson of the Board of Statutory Auditors, Sara Fornasiero, as well as the Standing Auditors Ezio Maria Simonelli and Flavia Daunia Minutillo and the information available to the company, confirmed the meeting of the independence requirements set out in Article 148, paragraph 3 of the TUF and in the Corporate Governance Code of the members of the Board of Statutory Auditors.

The Shareholders’ Meeting resolved on the following additional items on the agenda:

Report on remuneration policy and compensation paid
The Shareholders’ Meeting approved Section One of the Report on remuneration policy and compensation paid. The Shareholders’ Meeting also voted in favour of Section Two of the Report.

Renewal of the authorization to purchase and dispose of treasury shares
Following expiry of the term relating to the previous authorization resolved on 22 April 2020, the Shareholders’ Meeting renewed the authorization to purchase and dispose of treasury shares with the aim of retaining the applicability of law provisions in the matter of any additional buyback plans and, consequently, of seizing any investment and operational opportunities involving treasury shares.
To date, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. holds a total of no. 1,838,326 treasury shares, equal to 0.703% of the share capital.

Here below is the information provided, also with regard to the provisions of Article 132 of Legislative Decree 58/1998 and to the provisions of Article 144-bis of Issuer Regulation no. 11971/1999, on the authorization issued by the Shareholders’ Meeting.

Motivations
The motivations underlying the request for the authorization to purchase and dispose of treasury shares refer to the opportunity to attribute to the Board of Directors the power:

  • to use the treasury shares purchased as consideration in the acquisition of interests as part of the Company’s investment policy;
  • to use the treasury shares purchased against the exercise of option rights, including conversion rights, deriving from financial instruments issued by the Company, its subsidiaries or third parties and to use the treasury shares for lending, exchange or transfer transactions or to support extraordinary transactions on the Company’s capital or financing transactions that imply the transfer or sale of treasury shares;
  • to undertake any investments, directly or through intermediaries, including for the purpose of containing abnormal movements in share prices, stabilizing share trading and prices, supporting the liquidity of the share on the market, in order to foster the regular conduct of trading beyond normal fluctuations related to market performance, without prejudice in any case to compliance with applicable statutory provisions;
  • to rely on investment or divestment opportunities, if considered strategic by the Company, also in relation to available liquidity;
  • to dispose of treasury shares as part of share-based incentive plans pursuant to Article 114-bis of the TUF, and of plans for the free allocation of shares to employees or members of the governing or supervisory bodies of the Issuer or of an associate or to Shareholders.

Duration
The authorization to purchase treasury shares is set to last until the approval of the financial statements for the year ending 31 December 2021, while the authorization to sell is granted to last for an unlimited period, given the absence of provisions in this regard pursuant to the provisions in force and the opportunity to allow the Board of Directors to make use of the maximum flexibility, also in terms of time, to carry out the acts of disposal of the shares.

Maximum number of purchasable treasury shares
The authorization allows the purchase, including in more than one tranche, of ordinary shares of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., with a par value of € 0.26 each, in one or more tranches in an amount freely determinable by the Board of Directors – up to a maximum number of shares – also taking into account the ordinary shares held, directly and indirectly, in the portfolio from time to time – of no more than 10% overall of the share capital, in accordance with Article 2357, paragraph 3, of the Italian Civil Code.

Criteria for purchasing treasury shares and indication of the minimum and maximum purchasing cap
The purchases would be made in compliance with the principle of equal treatment of shareholders under Article 132 of the TUF, in accordance with any of the procedures set out in Article 144-bis of the Issuer Regulation, to be identified from time to time, and any other applicable regulations, as well as, where applicable, the market practices allowed from time to time in force.
Additionally, share purchase transactions may also be carried out in the manner envisaged in Article 3 of EU Delegated Regulation no. 2016/1052 in order to benefit, if the conditions are met, from the exemption under Article 5, paragraph 1, of EU Regulation no. 596/2014 on market abuse with regard to inside information and market manipulation.

As far as disposal transactions are concerned, the authorization would allow the adoption of any appropriate method to fulfill the purposes pursued – including the use of treasury shares to service stock incentive plans and/or the transfer of real and/or personal rights and/or stock lending – to be carried out either directly or through intermediaries, in compliance with the relevant laws and regulations in force.

Without prejudice to the fact that purchases of treasury shares would be made in accordance with the time limits, conditions and requirements established by the applicable Community legislation and by the Admitted Market Practices, the minimum and maximum purchase price would be determined for a unit price not lower than the official Stock Exchange price of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. shares on the day preceding the purchase transaction, reduced by 20%, and not higher than the official Stock Exchange price on the day preceding the purchase transaction, increased by 10%.
However, in terms of purchase prices, the additional conditions set forth in Article 3 of the above EU Delegated Regulation 2016/1052 would apply.

With regard to the provisions of Article 2357, paragraph 1, of the Italian Civil Code, purchases would in any case be made within the limits of the available “extraordinary reserve” as shown in the last duly approved financial statements.

In any case, purchases would be made, in terms of definition of volumes and unit prices, in accordance with the conditions governed by Article 3 of EU Delegated Regulation 2016/1052, and in particular:

  • no shares shall be purchased at a price higher than the higher between the price of the last independent trade and the price of the highest current independent bid on the trading venue where the purchase is carried out;
  • in terms of volumes, no more than 25% of the average daily trading volume of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. shares shall be purchased in the 20 trading days prior to the dates of purchase.

Purchases instrumental in the support to market liquidity shall also be made in accordance with the conditions provided by the admitted market practices.

2021-2023 Performance Share Plan
The Shareholders’ Meeting held today approved, pursuant to Article 114-bis of Legislative Decree 58/1998 and in keeping with the introduction of performance share plans approved in the past for the medium/long-term remuneration of executive directors and key management personnel, the establishment of a Performance Share Plan for the three-year period 2021-2023 intended for the newly-appointed Chief Executive Officer, the CFO – Executive Director and a number of managers of the Company who have an employment and/or directorship relationship with the Company or its subsidiaries at the date of allocation of the shares, in accordance with the conditions previously disclosed to the market on 18 March 2021, pursuant to Article 84-bis, paragraph 1 of Issuer Regulation 11971/1999.

For details on the 2021-2023 Performance Share Plan, the beneficiaries and the main characteristics of the Regulations of the Plan, reference should be made to the Information Document drawn up by the governing body, pursuant to CONSOB Regulation no. 11971/1999, and to the Explanatory Report, published on the Company’s website www.gruppomondadori.it “Governance/Shareholders’ Meeting” section.

The minutes of today’s Shareholders’ Meeting will be made publicly available in the manner and within the time limits of law.

 

Donna Moderna quadruples the target of its #BeeGreen challenge saving over 200 tonnes of CO2

70.000 sustainable actions by readers in less than a month on the AWorld app

On Earth Day on 22 April, Donna Moderna inaugurates Italy’s largest urban apiary

More than 200 tonnes of CO2. saved to take 1 million bees to Milan: this is the result of the challenge that Donna Moderna has achieved together with its readers as part of the #BeeGreen project, the initiative of the Mondadori Group brand dedicated to sustainability and urban diversity.

A challenge, promoted through AWorld, the app chosen by the UN to support green lifestyles, which has involved the community of around 11 million Donna Moderna users, whose extraordinary commitment has made it possible to overtake the initial target of 50 tonnes of CO2 and, in less than a month, to quadruple savings with over 70,000 sustainable actions.

In turn, Donna Moderna is making a concrete contribution to the protection of the planet, by creating, in collaboration with Green Island/Alveari Urbani, Italy’s largest urban apiary in the city park of Cascina Merlata with UpTown Milan and in the City of Milan’s San Faustino Garden.

The initiative foresees the installation of 17 new hives for over 1 million bees, capable of pollinating 3 billion flowers every day.

The last stage of this project will be the introduction of the last bee family into the hives of Cascina Merlata on the occasion of Earth Day, from 10.30 to 11.30.

With this project, which aims to re-introduce bees into urban contexts, Donna Moderna and its partners are committed to the protection of a species that is increasingly at risk and fundamental both for the protection of biodiversity and, through pollination, for our food security.

An initiative not only in the interest of sustainability and the environment, but also of craftsmanship, creativity and design: in fact, all of the hives have been designed by international artists, hand-painted by local artisans and in eco- design with reused materials.

On 22 April, on the occasion of Earth Day, Donna Moderna will talk about the project with live coverage on its social channels and on Rai Play, part of the multimedia marathon dedicated to World Earth Day, for which it is a Media Partner.

THE BALCONY FLOWER CONTEST
The commitment to biodiversity continues with the social-media based contest “Balconi Fioriti”, launched on Donna Moderna’s Instagram profile and by UpTown Milano, which invites readers to plant a flower on their balconies, thus creating real oases for pollinators, and to share photos or videos with the whole community.

#BEEGREEN HONEY DAY
But the initiatives do not end here: Donna Moderna has also invited its readers to participate, at the end of September, on the occasion of Green Week, the week of sustainability, in #BeeGreen Honey Day which will celebrate the harvesting of the honey produced by the bees.

Thanks go to the Main Partner “Acqua nelle nostre mani”, the project promoted by Finish for the protection and safeguarding of water, which has accompanied Donna Moderna in this initiative which aims to promote greater awareness of the environment and its resources.

Technical and institutional Partners of the project: AWorld, Green Island/Alveari Urbani, Earth Day Italia, Green Media Lab, UpTown Milano

Source: Nielsen Media Impact Data Fusion December 2020

Grazia, Piero Lissoni for the first time guest editor of the magazine edited by Silvia Grilli

A special issue dedicated to design and the shape of the new normal

Grazia, the leading 100% Italian fashion brand with 21 editions around the world, edited by Silvia Grilli, is launching a special issue with, for the first time, master of design, Piero Lissoni as guest editor of the magazine.

For more than thirty years Piero Lissoni has produced international architecture, interiors, product design and graphic design projects. In this extraordinary issue of Grazia he imagines, with a positive glance towards the future, new forms of post-pandemic reality and discussions with leading personalities in the search for connections between different worlds.

This special issue of the magazine will be on newsstands for two weeks and focuses on three themes: minimalism, hybridization and contamination, the paths through which Piero Lissoni describes the forms of a new normal.

“When I suggested to architect Piero Lissoni the challenge of being the guest director of this extraordinary issue, I never imagined that he would welcome my proposal with such enthusiasm and dedicate himself to the job with such passion,” said Grazia editor Silvia Grilli. “After more than a year of the pandemic, lockdowns, uncertainty and lifestyle changes I invite you to discover these in extraordinary pages of Grazia a new way to look at our homes, physically rediscover our cities, our villages, our flavours and our art, as we open up again with hope to a new future. You will meet many people and a world of beautiful objects. But in the end, you will discover that the really important things in your life can fit in a single suitcase,” the editor concluded.

 “When Silvia asked me to be the “temporary editor” for this issue of Grazia, on the one hand I was terrified, I didn’t know where to start. But, on the other hand, I was enthusiastic, like a child with a new toy. Then I started playing. And here we are!” declared Piero Lissoni.

This extraordinary issue gives space to great discussions with personalities who have left a mark on the history of this sector and beyond, and whose portraits bear the name of Giovanni Gastel.

From world-famous architects and designers Philippe Starck and Mario Bellini to the mayors of Milan, Beppe Sala, and Paris, Anne Hidalgo. From a meeting with Maria Porro, President of Assarredo to Stefania Lazzaroni, General Manager of Altagamma. As well as Ferruccio Resta, Rector of the Politecnico di Milano who proposes a new model of teaching.

There is space too for the theatre, with Stella Pende who interviews André Ruth Shammah, the soul of the Franco Parenti Theatre in Milan, and screenwriter Antonio Manzini. Readers of Grazia will also find testimonies from the Swiss artist with an American soul Ugo Rondinone and Francesco Dal Co, director of Casabella.

Featured personalities include Giorgio Metta, Scientific Director of the Italian Institute of Technology, the digital art group TeamLab, Giovanna Melandri, President of the Maxxi Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome and theologian Sergio Ubbiali.

Extensive space is given to the Segni di stile (Signs of style) feature: a tribute to timeless design, with a selection of iconic pieces, a symbol of an aesthetic that goes beyond fashion, photographed by Santi Caleca.

Valeria Solarino is the protagonist of the cover and of an exclusive, minimalist and sophisticated fashion shoot, done at the Milan Triennale. Valeria also tells Grazia about her greatest desires in this new phase of life. The Fai heritage site Villa Necchi Campiglio is the location for an extraordinary fashion shoot, dedicated to creative freedom.

And a unique photographic reportage gives form to the contaminations of the metropolis of Milan.

And then many sections: from design with La forma dei desideri (The shape of desire), irresistible pieces for every room in the house, to beauty, an account of a minimal and hybrid beauty. And from the kitchen, with starred Davide Oldani, to travel, with a look at the places of hospitality so common across Italy.

The design concept conceived for Grazia by Lissoni Graphx, the department of the studio that develops graphic design, visual communication and brand identity projects, can be summarised as rigour; white and a hybrid font in line with the themes chosen by Piero Lissoni for this special issue.

And the story continues with a rich programme on Grazia’s social media profiles. Tomorrow, Thursday 15 April at 7.30 pm Silvia Grilli will interview the guest editor Piero Lissoni, Valeria Solarino and Davide Oldani live on the brand’s Instagram channel. And there will be other live shows with the protagonists of the issue over the next two weeks.

On Friday 15 April, the digital entrepreneur Eleonora Carisi will be the protagonist of an Instagram Stories Takeover, with the creation of content created on the set of the feature dedicated to design.

With this initiative, Grazia confirms its role as a brand capable of continuously evolving and becoming a point of reference for over 4 million users (Source: Data Fusion Nielsen Media November 2020) and 1.58 million fans (Source Shareablee + TikTok and Pinterest March 2021).

Also this extraordinary issue, after the G21 issue published in March 18, has attracted a lot of interest in the advertising market with many clients in the furniture sector signing up. The issue sold 107 advertising pages, of which over 30 in the furniture sector. Since the beginning of the year, Grazia has expanded its content to the world of design, which has joined the editorial calendar in a structured way with 10 monthly events during the year, tripling page sales in the sector compared with April 2020.

 

Icon celebrates its 10th anniversary

On newsstands a collectors’ issue: 10 covers that look to the future

Advertising performance up 10% compared with 2020

 

Icon, the Mondadori Group’s male fashion and lifestyle brand, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a special issue of the magazine: 10 covers dedicated to leading figures from fashion, cinema, music and, for the first time volta, philosophy, to look together towards the future.

THE ANNIVERSARY ISSUE – DESTINATION: THE FUTURE

A collectors’ issue, a collection of stories, interviews and spectacular productions with contributions from some of the big names in photography who have accompanied the magazine in its journey.

The philosopher Byung-chul Han, the singer Mahmood, the pianist Jan Lisiecki, actors Casey Affleck, Alessio Lapice, Tahar Rahim, the dancer Sergei Polunin are the faces chosen by Icon as the symbols of a manifesto of the new contemporaneity A tribute to the future of Icon. A reinterpretation of icons in crossover areas in order to find new perspectives, while treasuring the legacy of the past. Talents from heterogeneous backgrounds, who demonstrate the capacity of the magazine edited by Andrea Tenerani to act as a catalyst for different worlds, using fashion as a lens to describe society.

“Over these 10 years Icon has talked about the evolution of fashion and its interpreters and been a spokesperson for new languages and an amplifier of styles and trends. With this issue we don’t just want to pay homage to the past, but to celebrate the future, in an attempt to map out a destination to examine together with our community of readers, through the international gaze provided by our team of photographers, journalists and stylists, expanding our point also to other industries and borders,” explained Andrea Tenerani, editor of Icon.

At the heart of Icon, on newsstands from 15 April, there is not just fashion and image, but also current affairs, in a global world in constant evolution. In the new issue, Destination: Future presents interviews and essays that focus on the changes taking place in culture and society: technological innovation, the environmental issue, inclusion, sustainability, mobility, major social issues, the commitment of the new generations, to offer readers a point of view on the new frontiers of the world of fashion, art and design and to understand the crucial challenges of the coming decade.

The April issue also features the special Iconology, a gallery of the history of Icon with the images and representations produced by the brand over the last 10 years, which will also be live on the new website.

FUTURE WEB

In conjunction with the publication of the Anniversary Issue, Icon will also extend its offer on the website www.iconmagazine.it which has been completely redesigned to further enhance the quality of photos and videos in new sections dedicated to People, Fashion, Cult, Beauty, Design, Eat & Drink, Where to go, Wheels, ICTV, Fashion Shows with previews, news and insights.

The 10-year story of Icon will continue on the brand’s social media profiles, with special content and initiatives throughout the month.

Launched in April 2011, for a decade Icon has been describing the fashion, customs, passions and lifestyles of the contemporary man – from beauty to beverages, travel and cars – plus the icons that represent him. A successful formula that has always counted among its strengths a very high attention to image quality and to Made in Italy, a reference point for the public and operators in the high-end fashion industry, which has also taken the brand abroad, to Spain, as a male supplement to the newspaper El País, and to Australia.

The trend in advertising sales, managed by Mediamond, is also positive: the Anniversary Issue obtained 100 advertising pages out of a total foliation of 352, contributing to the excellent result of Icon’s print and digital platform which to date has recorded an increase in revenues of 10% compared with last year.

The launch is accompanied by a advertising campaign planned on print, radio, web, social media and the DOOH – Digital Out of Home circuit.

“Interni Designer’s Week®” 2021 edition: INTERNI presents talks, debates and encounters dedicated to design, sustainability and the circular economy

The magazine also offers a printed and digital guide to all of the events, background detail on the recently revamped web site internimagazine.it, the daily “Interni Design Journal”, a daily newsletter in Italian and English and Interni Meeting Point at the Istituto Marangoni Milano Design School

 

This month, Milan reconfirms its central role in international design and thanks to the INTERNI system wants to start again from creativity, production and communication. After the outstanding success of the 2020 edition, the Mondadori Group magazine edited by Gilda Bojardi, has organised a new edition of INTERNI Designer’s Week® (the first was in 1990), the urban event dedicated to Industrial and Furniture Design, in the sense of the culture of design and innovation.

The initiative, which is supported by the City of Milan and will take place on the occasion of Milano Design City, from 12 to 23 April, offers conferences, meetings, debates and phygital events dedicated to new collections and product previews that will take place in the city’s showrooms and galleries and corporate offices, using the magazine’s media platforms to disseminate design projects, opinions, stories, products, ideas and the people who generate them.

“The pandemic and restrictions do not have to translate into a communication gap,” said the editor, Gilda Bojardi. “And in this context, INTERNI, which has always been a partner of design companies and an online and offline communication tool for the entire system, offers itself as a promoter/supporter of the restart and re-igniting of the creative spirit of Milan,” the editor concluded.

The communication programme

In fact, this April will again be without the Milan Design Week (Salone and FuoriSalone) but, to amplify leading innovations in the world of design, the INTERNI Designer’s Week® Milan has organised an articulated communication programme that includes:

  • a guide with the calendar of all the events of the Designer’s Week Milan in print (distributed at showrooms and on newsstands with the magazine) and digital versions (available on any device) and enriched with photo galleries and videos;
  • the digital newspaper Interni Design Journal with in-depth articles and films conveyed through a system of daily newsletters that will also serve as a save-the-date for all the events;
  • the reinforcement of all social media activities;
  • The INTERNI Meeting Point, staged at the Istituto Marangoni Milano Design School (Via Cerva 24) which will feature talks and interviews on the future of design, with meetings with architects and designers, which can also be seen in streaming on the INTERNI website;
  • banners around in the city and a press campaign in newspapers and magazines, out of home print & digital and a DOOH led-wall circuit;
  • to broaden the audience for companies, INTERNI has introduced Audience Targeting communication – in partnership with AdKaora, a digital advertising company – by sending to professionals from the sector SMS to 38,000 Italian architects, with a direct link to the Digital Guide, and DEM to approximately 100,000 profiled names, with the content of brand initiatives.

In addition, on the occasion of INTERNI Designer’s Week®, the website www.internimagazine.it will be renewed and strengthened, with an even more integrated and circular editorial program between web and social networks. Every day stories, surveys, interviews, projects and opinions from the world of design, but also a wall of product news told by INTERNI and a section dedicated to the Interior Design Journal.

INTERNI Designer’s Week® talks

Twelve days of meetings, interviews, real and virtual debates, to discuss Italian industrial know-how and to talk about sustainability and the circular economy in production and consumption, issues that companies know they can no longer ignore or exclude themselves from ethical and virtuous behaviour. Expressing their point of view, established opinion leaders from their respective production sectors, at both the Italian and international level, and new generations who have made research their core business: designers, architects, creatives, artists and art directors, entrepreneurs, sociologists, communication and science theorists, public and private institutional authorities, with the aim of presenting a new vision of sustainable design, for a more inclusive, interactive, democratic world. With contributions from: Paolo Lioy (CEO of Whirlpool Italia), Luisa Lavagnini (Head of Research & Technological Innovation at Eni), Francesco Santangelo (Head of Relations and Initiatives at Eni gas and electricity), architects Paola Navone, Giulio Cappellini, Antonio Citterio, Carlo Ratti, Italo Rota and Professor Davide Rampello.

Two main partners will accompany INTERNI during the Designer’s Week: AUDI and Eni.

For this occasion, Audi is once again present in Milan, a concrete and effective demonstration of an affinity in terms of values with the territory in terms of innovation and progress. Thanks to unveiling and the possibility of personally discovering the new Q4 e-tron, the first premium compact zero-emission electric platform SUV, Audi is reconfiguring its presence in Milan and has entrusted Mario Cucinella and his studio MCA – Mario Cucinella Architects, leader in sustainable design, the United for Progress installation. The space is located in a place that, like Audi, has been able to break the rules: BAM – Biblioteca degli Alberi Milano, the contemporary botanical garden in Porta Nuova.

Eni has also confirmed its presence at Designer’s Week in Milan where, in collaboration with INTERNI, it will present two meetings on energy, a fundamental issue for our present and future. The first meeting will take participants to Dubai where, in the Italian Pavilion at Expo, Eni will demonstrate its technology for a decarbonised future thanks also to CO2-captuing microalgae that, from a circular economy perspective, become new products applicable in a range of different fields. The second, with Eni gas and electricity, will discuss the importance energy efficient and sustainable homes to help build a low-emission future for our cities.

At this particularly complicated time, INTERNI reaffirms its strategic role in the world of design – a fundamental sector for society, in which Milan is an irreplaceable point of reference for the whole national system – involving in this important initiative over 50 of the main Made in Italy furniture producers and 100 designers in 12 days of virtual presentations and talks.

The INTERNI Designer’s Week® talks will take place from 13 to 22 April at the INTERNI Meeting Point, at the Istituto Marangoni in vVa Cerva 24, and will be streamed from 6.30pm on the  homepage of the website www.internimagazine.it.

Partners of the INTERNI Meeting Point: Ferrarelle, illy, Whirlpool.

 

 

 

Publication of the lists for the appointments to the Board of Directors and to the Board of Statutory Auditors

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. announces that the lists for the appointments to the Board of Directors and to the Board of Statutory Auditors filed by the shareholder Fininvest S.p.A., holding no. 139,355,950 shares equal to 53.299% of the share capital and 69.853% of the voting rights, and by a grouping of shareholders formed of asset management companies and institutional investors, holding a total of no. 9,856,881 shares, equal to 3.769% of the share capital, accompanied by the documentation pursuant to CONSOB regulation no. 11971/1999 and to the Bylaws, are available at the registered office, at the authorized storage mechanism 1Info (www.1info.it), and on the website www.gruppomondadori.it (Governance section).

The shareholders belonging to the grouping of asset management companies and institutional investors filed – also pursuant to CONSOB Communication no. DEM/9017893 of 26 February 2009 – together with the lists, statements certifying the absence of any association and/or significant relations with shareholders who, also jointly, hold a controlling or relative majority investment, as set out in articles 147-ter, paragraph III, 148, paragraph II of the TUF and 144-quinquies of the Issuer Regulation.

Candidates to the Board of Directors

  • List submitted by the shareholder Fininvest S.p.A.:
1 Marina Berlusconi 7 Francesco Currò
2 Antonio Porro 8 Angelo Renoldi*
3 Pier Silvio Berlusconi 9 Mario Resca
4 Alessandro Franzosi 10 Cristina Rossello
5 Elena Biffi* 11 Paola Elisabetta Galbiati*
6 Danilo Pellegrino 12 Valentina Casella*

 

  • List submitted by a grouping of shareholders formed of asset management companies and institutional investors:
1 Alceo Rapagna*
2 Lucia Predolin*

 

(*) Candidates declaring their eligibility as independent director

Candidates to the Board of Statutory Auditors

  • List submitted by the shareholder Fininvest S.p.A.:
Standing Auditors
1 Ezio Maria Simonelli
2 Flavia Daunia Minutillo
3 Francesco Vittadini

 

Substitute Auditors
1 Annalisa Firmani
2 Emilio Gatto
3 Tommaso Casale

 

  • List submitted by a grouping of shareholders formed of asset management companies and institutional investors:
Standing Auditors
1 Sara Fornasiero

 

Substitute Auditors
1 Mario Civetta

 

The Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting for the appointments to the Board of Directors and to the Board of Statutory Auditors is convened on Tuesday 27 April 2021 (on April 28 in second call, if necessary).

Notice is additionally given that the proposed resolutions put forward by the shareholder Fininvest S.p.A. on the number of members of the Board of Directors, its term in office and fees due, as well as the fees due to the Board of Statutory Auditors, are also available at the registered office, at the authorized storage mechanism 1info (www.1info.it) and on the website www.gruppomondadori.it (Governance section).

 

CasaFacile launches the first edition of the digital festival “La Casa dei Sogni”

From 7 April to 7 May, a month of initiatives on social media and the CasaFacile web site with ideas about the new demands for contemporary living

On newsstands a special issue of the magazine with coverage of what we want for our homes

On the advertising side CasaFacile confims its role as the player di of reference in the consumer interiors sector: +42% in terms of space in April compared with last year

Tomorrow sees the start of “La Casa dei Sogni” (Dream Homes), the first digital festival dedicated to homes developed by CasaFacile, the magazine edited by Francesca Magni.

A month of initiatives that will continue until May 7 on the Instagram and Facebook channels, discussing our dreams for our homes and to enable the community of the Mondadori Group brand – which today has 1.1 million followers, up 56% compared with March 2020 – to discover how it is possible to improve our quality of life by redesigning the spaces in which we live.

“Today we live in two worlds: the real one, made up of concrete things, in which we exercise all five of our senses, and the virtual one where the senses we use are sight and hearing, but the things that happen are just as real, such as the choices of what to buy that we can make through the web and social networks. From this awareness CasaFacile has created this Festival to accompany readers in the construction and design of their own Dream Home. With original and accessible ideas and solutions, we want to tell our community that a Dream Home could easier to achieve than you think and sometimes all you need to do is break a habit,” said Francesca Magni, editor of CasaFacile.

The “La Casa dei Sogni” Festival will feature completely new and dynamic video formats, which will inform the community about solutions, projects and quality products selected by CasaFacile and curated by the team of bloggers, interior designers and architects that collaborates with the magazine.
A range of appointments: from Beautiful & Possible ways to furnish all sorts of spaces with systems that are transformed according to different needs during the day and Styling Competitions. And also School of Style to learn how to use, position and combine a product, as well as dream designs for the home and outdoors.

The La Casa dei Sogni story continues also in the magazine. Greener, brighter, more colourful, more relaxing, more functional and with a super kitchen: these are the six dreams that will be realised in six designs, forming the heart of the special issue of CasaFacile on newsstands this month. A journey around six ideas with lots of practical suggestions, columns and tricks to give shape to new desires and styles of living. The pages of the magazine will also feature buying guides and many accessible ideas and solutions to copy for our homes.

All the content of the Festival and the magazine’s insights will also be available in a dedicated section on the CasaFacile.it website.

A cross-media storytelling developed across all the brand’s channels thanks to a range of content and initiatives with which CasaFacile responds to the ever-evolving needs of its readers, reaching a total audience (magazine and website) of 979,000 users every month.

CasaFacile confirms its role as the player of reference in the consumer interiors sector in 2021. Thanks to the “La Casa dei Sogni” project, the brand has consolidated the very positive advertising trend of the first quarter with +42% in terms of space sold in April, bringing the cumulative growth in the first four months of the year to +15% compared with 2020, and marking clear increase in market share in its segment (+3%).

Sources:
Shareablee different Pinterest profiles – March 2021
Nielsen Fusion Data – October 2020