Cairo Communication S.p.A. is an Italian media and publishing company based in Milan. The shares of the company float in

Borsa Italiana Borsa Italiana () or Borsa di Milano (), based in Milan at Palazzo Mezzanotte, Mezzanotte Palace, is the Italy, Italian stock exchange. It manages and organises domestic market, regulating procedures for admission and listing of companies and i ...

Urbano Cairo Urbano Cairo (born 21 May 1957) is an Italian businessman and media proprietor. Biography Cairo was born in Milan. His parents were originally from Masio, within the province of Alessandria. He is the first of four children born from the union ...

, via UT Communications, UT Belgium Holding, owned 50.101% stake of the company. In turn Cairo Communication owned 59.693% stake of fellow media company

RCS MediaGroup RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. (formerly Rizzoli Editore and Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera), based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, ra ...

, which was acquired in 2016.

History

found a company Cairo Pubblicità in 1995, which wholesale advertisement space for

. In 1997 Cairo acquired a company which found in 1984, and renamed into Cairo Communication, as the holding company of his media empire. Cairo Communication acquired La7 in 2013 from

Telecom Italia TIM S.p.A. (formerly Telecom Italia S.p.A.) is an Italian telecommunications company with headquarters in Rome, Milan, and Naples (with the Telecom Italia Tower), which provides fixed, public and mobile telephony, and DSL data services. It is ...

. In 2016 Cairo Communication acquired RCS MediaGroup by offering to buy the shares from the public market, which was more favor than the offer from the rival consortium.

Publications and subsidiaries

* Cairo Editore ** Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori *** '' Airone'' ***Edizioni Anabasi s.r.l. ** ''Dipiù'', a weekly family magazine *

* La7 S.p.A. * Cairo Network s.r.l. * Cairo Pubblicità S.p.A. * Cairo Publishing S.r.l. * ''Il Trovatore''

References

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* Television networks in Italy Italian-language television networks Mass media in Milan Publishing companies of Italy Italian companies established in 1995 {{media-company-stub Publishing companies established in 1995 Mass media companies of Italy Companies listed on the Borsa Italiana Companies based in Milan