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Arnoldo Mondadori began his publishing activities in 1907, at the age of only eighteen, with the publication of the magazine Luce!. In 1911 he published his first book, Aia Madama by Tomaso Monicelli, and created the first book series, La Lampada, dedicated to children’s literature.
For more information, see Our History.

Our mission is to encourage the dissemination of culture and ideas, through products, activities and services aimed at satisfying the needs and tastes of the broadest possible range of people. Within our vision, we combine a love of culture and editorial quality with the laws of the market and a capacity to identify and anticipate change, while respecting and protecting the values that underlie the publisher’s role in civil society.

We are one of Europe’s largest editorial groups and we operate in all parts of the publishing industry, from the creation of products to distribution and marketing. Our business includes the following areas: books (trade and educational), retail and magazines (Italy and International Business).
For more information, see Our business.

The consolidated revenues of the Mondadori Group in 2020 came to € 744 million. Of these revenues, 55% were generated by Books, 20% by Mondadori Retail, and 25% by Media.
For more information, see Investors.

Most of our business takes place in Italy, but for several years we have been carrying out an international expansion strategy that uses our main magazine brands as a means to export the style, quality and excellence of Italian fashion and design around the world.
For more information, see Where we are.

Our offices are based in Segrate, Milan. The postal address for the head office is:
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A.
Via privata Mondadori, 1
20054 Segrate (Milan)
How to reach us

In 2020 the Mondadori Group is the leader in the Italian book market with a market share of 24.8% (trade books, value data, source: GfK) and of 22.1% (educational books, value data, source: AIE).
For more information, see Books and Sector data.

In 2020 the Mondadori Group, including all its imprints, published 2,193 new titles. The e-book catalogue consists of over 20,000 titles.

We operate in the book market through the company Mondadori Libri S.p.A., which brings together the publishing and distribution activities of the Books area and shareholdings in book publishing companies from the trade, art and school sectors: the imprints are Mondadori, Piemme, Giulio Einaudi, Mondadori Education, Electa, Sperling & Kupfer, Frassinelli, Rizzoli, Rizzoli Education, Fabbri Editori, Rizzoli Lizard, BUR and Abscondita.

With the acquisition of RCS Libri (2016), now Rizzoli, we have consolidated our competitive position in the Italian market for trade books and school textbooks, as well as in the sector of illustrated books at an international level.

For more information, see Books.

We are the leader in the Italian book market. We work hard to recognise and satisfy the needs of every type of audience with our publishing content. We have always pursued the same objective: to encourage reading with quality offerings in every field, from high level works to books for escapism and entertainment.
In parallel with steps to consolidate publishing products that traditionally make up the core business – works by contemporary authors, classics, paperbacks, books for children – the Educational Department is expanding into areas that still offer considerable potential for development: e-books, art books and school books.
For more information, see Books and Sector data.

With a market share of 24.2% in 2020 (circulation data, in terms of value), we are Italy’s leading magazine publisher.

For more information, see Magazines and Sector data.

Our magazine portfolio includes titles covering a very wide range of interests and needs and very different target markets. Architecture, interior design, cooking, design, women’s magazines, television, music, news magazines, cultural magazines, health & fitness, science and technology; our magazine portfolio reflects our generalist approach.
For more information, see Magazines.

For our Italian magazines, go to www.abbonamenti.it, or for our international titles, go to www.graziainternational.com.

Since 2012 all of the Mondadori Group’s activities that have a direct link with the customer have been managed together in the subsidiary Mondadori Retail S.p.A.
For more information, see Retail.

Mondadori has a nationwide presence with more than 550 stores. It is the largest publishing chain in Italy.
For more information, see Store locator.

Mondadori shares were first traded on the Milan Stock Exchange in 1982 (ISIN code: IT 0001469383). The stock is part of the STAR segment of Borsa Italiana. More details on the performance of the shares and other information such as the number of shares outstanding are available at Mondadori on the Stock Exchange.

Key figures on the sector are published on the Sector data page of this website in order to provide a full picture of the trends in the main markets in which we operate. This includes data on book sales and magazine circulation and advertising. Most of the information is sourced from industry bodies or companies. The rest comes from Mondadori estimates.

The Mondadori Group’s organisational structure is modelled on the traditional governance model. This system is based on an administrative body (the Board of Directors) nominated by the Board of Shareholders which is responsible for the management of the company, and the Board of Statutory Auditors which is entrusted with management control.
The corporate document section of this website provides all the documents relating to the Company’s management, including the Bylaws and the Code of Ethics.

Mondadori’s shareholding structure is as follows:
Fininvest: 53.30%
Silchester International: 12.56%
Treasury shares: 0.70%
Floating: 32.70%
For more information, see Share capital and shareholders.

The Chairman of Mondadori’s Board of Directors is Marina Berlusconi. The Chief Executive Officer is Antonio Porro.
For more information on members, see Board of Directors.

Mondadori’s risk management system is based on the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) model that incorporates the principles of the international standard laid down by the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO Report), one of the most authoritative and widely used approaches both in Italy and internationally.
For more information, see Internal control and risk management system and Risk management.

In the Careers section we explain what it means to become part of the Mondadori Group, in terms of professional opportunities and the required profiles.
For a list of current job openings, go to Open Positions.

To send your curriculum vitae to the Mondadori Group, simply fill out the form in the “Open Application” section on the Open positions page.

We formally set out on the path to sustainability in September 2010 with the establishment of the Sustainability Committee, the subsequent approval of the Sustainability Plan and the first edition of the report for internal distribution and use.
For more information, see Steps towards sustainability.

During a series of workshops, Mondadori’s Sustainability Committee conducts a materiality analysis to determine the most significant sustainability issues, both inside the company and for its main stakeholders. The analysis is repeated once a year.
For more information, see Priorities.

The reputation that the Group has built up over its hundred years of doing business is also based on compliance with ethical standards defined by laws, regulations and governance codes in the daily operations of all of its companies.
In 2012 we drew up a new version of our Code of Ethics. Implementation of the Code is ensured by the presence of the supervision and control body, by the Control and Risk Committee and by the Internal Audit function, in their respective roles.
For more information, see Ethics and conduct.

With a view to increasing our responsibility towards customers, we increasingly strive to take over the management of products from external suppliers.
In order to protect the company and its customers against activities that are not in line with our principles, in our contracts/orders we specify compliance with:

• the Mondadori Code of Ethics;
• European regulations;
• minimum worker age: 14 years.

With regard to responsible procurement, we have established a series of global standards in our new Code of Ethics for the management of suppliers in the following areas: social obligations and safety requirements, selection criteria, evaluation, fairness, gifts, control.
For more information, see Suppliers.

The data for measuring Mondadori’s sustainability performance, processed according to the Global Reporting Initiative, are gathered using a formalised procedure and are available in the Sustainability Report, Consolidated non-financial statement since 2017, and on the corporate website.
For more information, see Sustainability Report.

Our Sustainability Committee maps the company’s stakeholders by means of a series of dedicated workshops and a chart summarising the company’s activities and its relations with the outside world.
The stakeholders identified are those who:

• provide input to Mondadori
• are part of Mondadori
• receive output from Mondadori.

The identification process has enables more than 40 categories of stakeholders to be identified, classified according to two criteria – dependence on and influence on the company – and grouped into uniform categories.
For more information, see Stakeholder relations.

Contributing to the region’s sustainable development is one of our key commitments in terms of social responsibility. In line with this objective, we offer support to the communities in which we operate through sponsorships and targeted social initiatives, which can be divided into three main areas:

• culture, education and training
• social support and healthcare
• young people and sports.

Since 2012, Mondadori has followed the London Benchmarking Group framework to define its contributions to the community.
For more information, see Social innovation strategy.

As a result of the outsourcing of printing activities that has taken place in recent years, Mondadori’s activities may, to a large extent, be considered to be tertiary. This means that direct environmental aspects are limited to energy and water consumption and the consumption of materials (mainly from packaging) and the associated environmental impacts.
For more information, see Environmental performance.

Indirect environmental aspects not under the direct control of Mondadori are, however, extremely important since they are determined by the activities of suppliers, linked in particular to paper cycle and the transportation of products.
For more information, see The logistics of publishing products.

The Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori is a non-profit organisation, recognised by the President of the Republic in April 1979. Established with the aim of conserving, investing and making available to the public the funds of Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori, it has become a centre for study and research on Italy’s publishing culture since the mid-nineties. The Foundation’s activities are currently focused on three areas: protecting the historical memory of the publishing industry, promoting research into the role of cultural mediation and spreading a publishing culture. For more information on the Foundation’s activities and initiatives, visit the website www.fondazionemondadori.it.

Mediafriends is a non-profit social fund established in 2003 by R.T.I., Mondadori and Medusa with the aim of creating, producing and promoting events aimed at raising funds for charity.
The Association aims to better coordinate the communicative skills of R.T.I., Mondadori and Medusa with a view to achieving better results in fund raising and building awareness of the causes identified.
Mediafriends’ first project was “La fabbrica del sorriso” (the Smile Factory), a gathering of Italy’s most popular comedians in an effort to raise money for disadvantaged children. For the occasion, Mondadori published the book La Fabbrica del Sorriso – comici per un mondo migliore, which was sold in bookshops and combined with a number of the group’s magazines. All of the profits made from the initiative were donated to “La Fabbrica del Sorriso”.
For more information on Mediafriends’ activities and initiatives, go to www.mediafriends.it.