2019

Grazia, the leading 100% Italian fashion brand, is expanding its reach in Latin America. Thanks to a new licensing agreement signed between the Mondadori Group and Menta Comunicación, the publisher of the magazine in Mexico, from this month Grazia’s international network will have a new edition which will be distributed in Colombia, Perù and Panama.

The new monthly in spanish language, edited by Toni Salamanca, will offer readers in the three countries the unmistakeable mix of fashion, news and current affairs that has made the historic brand the most qualified point of reference for Made in Italy.

Grazia will now reach a total audience in Latin America of over 4 million readers in the 18 and 34 age range. Through the magazine, the web site and social media it will be a platform dedicated to luxury, fashion, beauty and lifestyle, able to respond to the needs and tastes of the public at all times.

Every month, the global multichannel system Grazia International Network, which operates in 23 countries, reaches an overall community of 15 million readers, with a monthly circulation of more than 10 million copies, and 35 million unique users and around 20 million followers on social media.

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. (LEI Code 815600049A1F9AFE6666) announces the purchase on the MTA (Electronic Stock Market), in the period from 26 to 30 August 2019, of no. 53,000 ordinary shares (equal to 0.020% of the share capital) at an average unit price of Euro 1.4242 for a total amount of Euro 75,480.30.

These transactions were made under the authorization to purchase treasury shares approved by the Shareholders’ Meeting on 17 April 2019 (previously disclosed pursuant also to art. 144 bis of Consob Regulation 11971/99, to art. 5 of Regulation (EU) 596/2014 and to art. 132 of Legislative Decree 58/98).

The following table details the purchases made per day in the above period of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. ordinary shares, ISIN IT0001469383:

The purchases were made through the authorized intermediary Equita Sim S.p.A. (LEI Code 815600E3E9BFBC8FAA85).

Following the purchases made so far, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. holds no. 2,017,203 treasury shares, equal to 0.772% of the share capital and to 0.503% of the total amount of voting rights.

Purchases in detail in the complete pdf.

Silvia Grilli, editor of Grazia – the leading 100% Italian fashion brand present around the world with 20 international editions – has selected Chiara Ferragni as guest editor of the new issue of Grazia dedicated to female power and talent, on newsstands from Thursday 29 August. The world’s most followed female digital entrepreneur will also be the protagonist of the cover stories of Grazia in the UK, Germany, Holland, the Middle East and Russia.

For the first time in the role of guest editor, Chiara Ferragni, who is also the subject of the documentary Chiara Ferragni – Unposted, which will be presented on 4 September at the Venice Film Festival, has worked together with the editor Silvia Grilli on the creation of the issue: from the fashion pages, in which she also poses for the photographer Yu Tsai in a shooting in Los Angeles, to interviews, news and current affairs features, as well as the beauty and travel sections, with an open and inclusive approach to the latest trends.

«For some time Grazia under my editorship has had a special relationship with female digital entrepreneurs. We were the first to launch a team of influencers when the fashion establishment had not yet understood their significance. We were also the first to organise – along with Chiara Ferragni’s The Blonde Salad – an exhibition on the revolution provoked by street style in the world of fashion,» explained Grazia editor Silvia Grilli. «I have a long-standing and consolidated relationship with Chiara so, to coincide with the presentation of the documentary film about her life at the Venice Film Festival, I asked her to work with us as guest editor on a special issue, and she enthusiastically accepted. So here we are with this special edition of Grazia dedicated to women with power, features on the most pressing issues of the moment and, of course, Chiara’s world: her passions, her fashion, her commitment and, also, the film about her life. We have also involved five other international editions of the magazine who have joined us on this adventure.»

«When Silvia Grilli, the editor who first believed in me and put me on the cover five years ago – the realisation of a dream – asked me to be the guest editor of an issue, I wasn’t sure I would be up to the task. So we worked together on this issue to remind everyone to follow their dreams, also, even especially, when they fly in the face of other people’s judgements. And for me this has been another dream come true,» declared Chiara Ferragni.

A collector’s issue, of more than 200 pages, that pays homage to the talent, ambition and style of women through portraits of special women to be inspired by, and presented in the words of exceptional reporters, starting with Chiara Ferragni herself, interviewed by Teresa Ciabatti, along with other outstanding figures such as Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, television host, actress and producer Oprah Winfrey, the creative director of Dior Maria Grazia Chiuri, Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, the artistic director of Givenchy Clare Waight Keller, and actress Margot Robbie.

The features of the week also include a special on digital bullying, an issue to which both Silvia Grilli and Chiara Ferragni are particularly committed, and a survey on how our diet will change in the future, due to new technologies and environmental sustainability.

The new issue of Grazia also gives space to Chiara Ferragni’s passions, objects of desire and favourite places, which she has selected for readers from among her most loved places in Milan, Los Angeles, Paris and London. There will, of course, also be beauty advice, with a feature on highlighters, one of Chiara’s cosmetic passions, and a classification of the latest red carpet looks, commented on by Chiara Ferragni herself.

The special issue has attracted great interest also in terms of advertising sales as this editorial initiative has been well received by a number of clients resulting in revenues that have almost tripled.

This four-handed project has made it possible to bring together the values that Grazia has championed for more than 80 years, accompanying generations of women with a unique formula that combines fashion, news and current affairs, which has consequently cemented the privileged relationship that the brand has always had with the digital world, social media and fashion influencers, now a fundamental element of the fashion system.

Today Grazia’s communication platform in Italy can count on the circulation of 156,000 copies (Source: Ads, monthly average Jan-May 2019) and 785,000 readers (Source: Audipress 2019/I), the web site Grazia.it, has 3 million unique users per month (Source: Audiweb, monthly average Mar-May 2019), social media channels with a reach of 14 million, special events, the Factory of influencers and the creative agency Grazia Creative Lab. The global multichannel system Grazia International Network every month reaches an overall community of 15 million readers, with a monthly circulation of 10 million copies, and 35 million unique users, as well as over 15 million followers on social media.

The launch of this new issue of Grazia will be supported by an advertising campaign planned across print, radio, web, social and DOOH.

Grazia will be available on newsstands from Thursday 29 August at the price of €2.

Grazia sarà in edicola da giovedì 29 agosto al prezzo di 2 euro.

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. (LEI Code 815600049A1F9AFE6666) announces the purchase on the MTA (Electronic Stock Market), in the period from 19 to 23 August 2019, of no. 53,500 ordinary shares (equal to 0.020% of the share capital) at an average unit price of Euro 1.4179 for a total amount of Euro 76,585.35.

These transactions were made under the authorization to purchase treasury shares approved by the Shareholders’ Meeting on 17 April 2019 (previously disclosed pursuant also to art. 144 bis of Consob Regulation 11971/99, to art. 5 of Regulation (EU) 596/2014 and to art. 132 of Legislative Decree 58/98).

The following table details the purchases made per day in the above period of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. ordinary shares, ISIN IT0001469383:

The purchases were made through the authorized intermediary Equita Sim S.p.A. (LEI Code 815600E3E9BFBC8FAA85).

Following the purchases made so far, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. holds no. 1,964,203 treasury shares, equal to 0.751% of the share capital and to 0.490% of the total amount of voting rights.

Purchases in detail in the complete pdf.

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Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. (LEI Code 815600049A1F9AFE6666) announces the purchase on the MTA (Electronic Stock Market), in the period from 12 to 16 August 2019, of no. 40,000 ordinary shares (equal to 0.015% of the share capital) at an average unit price of Euro 1.4179 for a total amount of Euro 56,717.60.

These transactions were made under the authorization to purchase treasury shares approved by the Shareholders’ Meeting on 17 April 2019 (previously disclosed pursuant also to art. 144 bis of Consob Regulation 11971/99, to art. 5 of Regulation (EU) 596/2014 and to art. 132 of Legislative Decree 58/98).

The following table details the purchases made per day in the above period of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. ordinary shares, ISIN IT0001469383:

The purchases were made through the authorized intermediary Equita Sim S.p.A. (LEI Code 815600E3E9BFBC8FAA85).

Following the purchases made so far, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. holds no. 1,910,703 treasury shares, equal to 0.731% of the share capital and to 0.477% of the total amount of voting rights.

Purchases in detail in the complete pdf.

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. (LEI Code 815600049A1F9AFE6666) announces the purchase on the MTA (Electronic Stock Market), in the period from 5 to 9 August 2019, of no. 79,000 ordinary shares (equal to 0.030% of the share capital) at an average unit price of Euro 1.4468 for a total amount of Euro 114,294.80.

These transactions were made under the authorization to purchase treasury shares approved by the Shareholders’ Meeting on 17 April 2019 (previously disclosed pursuant also to art. 144 bis of Consob Regulation 11971/99, to art. 5 of Regulation (EU) 596/2014 and to art. 132 of Legislative Decree 58/98).

The following table details the purchases made per day in the above period of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. ordinary shares, ISIN IT0001469383:

The purchases were made through the authorized intermediary Equita Sim S.p.A. (LEI Code 815600E3E9BFBC8FAA85).

Following the purchases made so far, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. holds no. 1,870,703 treasury shares, equal to 0.715% of the share capital and to 0.467% of the total amount of voting rights.

Purchases in detail in the complete pdf.

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. (LEI Code 815600049A1F9AFE6666) announces the purchase on the MTA (Electronic Stock Market), in the period from 29 July to 2 August 2019, of no. 63,000 ordinary shares (equal to 0.024% of the share capital) at an average unit price of Euro 1.4794 for a total amount of Euro 93,201.20.

These transactions were made under the authorization to purchase treasury shares approved by the Shareholders’ Meeting on 17 April 2019 (previously disclosed pursuant also to art. 144 bis of Consob Regulation 11971/99, to art. 5 of Regulation (EU) 596/2014 and to art. 132 of Legislative Decree 58/98).

The following table details the purchases made per day in the above period of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. ordinary shares, ISIN IT0001469383:

The purchases were made through the authorized intermediary Equita Sim S.p.A. (LEI Code 815600E3E9BFBC8FAA85).

Following the purchases made so far, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. holds no. 1,791,703 treasury shares, equal to 0.685% of the share capital and to 0.447% of the total amount of voting rights.

Purchases in detail in the complete pdf.

Pursuant to art. 85-bis, paragraph 4-bis of CONSOB Regulation no. 11971 of 14 May 1999, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. announces today that, the requirements and conditions laid down by current legislation and the Bylaws being met, the increase in voting rights for 18,000 ordinary shares of the Company has become effective.

The total amount of voting rights, indicating the number of shares forming the share capital, is outlined below.

The Mondadori Group announces that, effective today, Carmine Perna is the new managing director of Mondadori Retail S.p.A.

In his functions, Perna will work towards launching a new phase of development and transformation in a multi-channel perspective of the company that operates in the retail segment of the Mondadori Group, led by CEO Ernesto Mauri.

Mondadori Retail, chaired by Mario Resca, generated revenue of € 191.8 million in 2018 and manages the largest network of bookshops in Italy. The company operates across the Country through approximately 600 directly-managed or franchised points of sale and online with mondadoristore.it.

Carmine Perna – 49, born in Serino (AV) and a graduate in business administration at the Bocconi University of Milan – joined the Mondadori Group in 2006 working in the Administration, Finance and Control Department, before holding positions of increasing responsibility. In 2007, he was appointed CFO of Mondadori France and, in 2010, Executive Director of Finance & Operations of the French subsidiary, before becoming General Managing Director in March 2013, a position he kept until completion of the sale.

Under his leadership, Mondadori France has strengthened its position as one of the top French magazine publishers: in recent years, Perna implemented a major transformation that led to the review and re-launch of all magazines and to a strong plan for brand diversification, including in the digital segment.

Prior to that, Perna worked with the SISAL Group, in H3G S.p.A. and for the Ventaglio Group, holding various roles in the finance area.

The Mondadori Group wishes to thank Pierluigi Bernasconi – who has decided to leave Mondadori Retail for personal reasons and in agreement with the company – for the valuable contribution and professionalism he has shown during his tenure.

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. announces the finalization today of the sale of its subsidiary Mondadori France S.A.S. to Reworld Media S.A. in execution of the agreement signed and disclosed to the market last 19 April.

Following this transaction, the Mondadori Group completes a further phase on the path of strategic repositioning, with increased focus on the Books Area and the development of new areas of business.

The consideration from the transaction amounts to € 70 million (cash free/debt free), plus an earn-out of € 5 million, according to the terms disclosed last 24 July.

Concurrent to the completion of the sale of Mondadori France, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. today repaid in full the Credit Line B of € 100 million, stipulated on 22 December 2017 with a pool of three banks (Banca Popolare di Milano S.p.A., Intesa San Paolo S.p.A. and Unicredit S.p.A.) as part of the loan agreement expiring in December 2022.