Corporate

Carmine Perna has been appointed general manager of Mondadori France Group, reporting directly to the chairman of Mondadori France, Ernesto Mauri.

In his new role Perna will be responsible for coordinating the activities of the members of the operating committee of Mondadori France: Valérie Camy (executive director Mondadori France Publicité), Carole Fagot (executive director of the area Femme, Science et Loisirs), Stéphane Haitaian (director of the area Star e Nature) and Fabienne Mercier-de Luze (head of human resources and legal affairs).

Carmine Perna, 43, has a degree in economics and business administration from the Bocconi University in Milan and has extensive experience in the administration and fiscal areas. He joined the Mondadori Group in 2006 where he had a series of roles with increasing responsibility in finance and administration before moving, in 2007, to Mondadori France as chief financial officer. In 2010 he was appointed executive director Finance & Operations, expanding his role to include also, from April 2012, the management of the magazine division Auto.

Riccardo Cavallero, General Manager of Mondadori Trade Books Division, gathering all books activities of the Group, has been also appointed General Manager of Edizioni Mondadori ad interim as of March 18, 2013.

Mondadori is leader in the Italian book market with a 27.6% share in 2012 (source: Nielsen Bookscan). Its extensive offering includes fiction, non-fiction, popular non-fiction books and children’s books. The general management operates through four main publishing houses, Giulio Einaudi editore, Edizioni Piemme, Sperling & Kupfer and Edizioni Mondadori, first imprint with a 14.1% share in 2012 (source: Nielsen Bookscan).

“We recently started a process aimed at integrating the publishing and managerial resources in every publishing house of the Group”, said Riccardo Cavallero. “The plan also involves Edizioni Mondadori, with the objective of globally enhancing the leadership of the individual brands and of Trade Books Division. Reflecting the virtuous model applied for instance by Knopf in the United States, the combination of publishing and marketing functions is targeted to strengthen the value of the profiles operating in a more effective team context”.

“Let me thank Laura Donnini, a highly professional manager and colleague of rare character and integrity, for the significant contribution she has given in these years and for the atmosphere of collaboration and respect that she has developed. I wish her the brilliant personal success she deserves”, concluded Cavallero.

Maurizio Costa, CEO and Deputy Chairman of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., informed the Board of Directors, which met with Marina Berlusconi in the chair, that he will resign from his positions with effect from the Board’s approval of the draft financial statements for the period ended on 31 December 2012, scheduled to take place on 20 March this year.

Maurizio Costa has been at the head of the Mondadori Group since 1997. Under his management, the company has strengthened its leading position in the books publishing sector, has embarked on the development of magazines abroad – the Group is now present in more than 20 countries – and has carried out a far-reaching review of its business portfolio, including exiting the printing sector among other aspects.

The Chair then informed the Directors that on the occasion of the Board of Directors scheduled on 20 March, she intends to move that Ernesto Mauri – the General Manager of Mondadori Magazines and Chairman and General Manager of Mondadori France – be co-opted onto the Board and appointed Chief Executive, once the Remuneration and Appointments Committee has completed the work for it is responsible.

“I believe that this is a very particular moment for all those who love Mondadori” stated Marina Berlusconi at the end of the meeting. “The passion and professionalism with which Maurizio Costa has led the company during these sixteen years, in an increasingly complex sector like publishing, his loyalty and honesty, in short, in fact, everything that he has done in the service of a company that is so important for the life of this country, deserve the most sincere gratitude on the part of our publishing house, all its shareholders and on my part personally. But Costa’s decision does not break off his long relationship of collaboration with the Fininvest Group and my family. In fact he will take on the position of Deputy Chairman of Fininvest S.p.A., concluding a process that began last June when he entered the parent company’s Board of Directors.”

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The Board of Directors of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. also co-opted Danilo Pellegrino, the General Manager of Fininvest, to replace Roberto Briglia, formerly acting as an Executive Director owing to the executive position that he previously held with the company, who resigned with effect from today’s meeting.

The CV of Danilo Pellegrino, who has the status of a Non-Executive Director in compliance with the Italian Stock Exchange Self-Regulation Code, may be consulted in the Governance section of website www.mondadorigroup.com.

As of March 1, 2013 a new function will be included – Literary Director – reporting to Laura Donnini, Managing Director of Edizioni Mondadori. The new position will be assigned to Antonio Riccardi who, in cooperation with the Editorial Directions, will support Laura Donnini in the development of the company’s publishing strategies.

“The changes of the book publishing market deriving from the digital revolution and the new reading habits as well as the increased crossover of genres and literary styles have inspired a new, more strengthened organization better focused on our publishing strategies”, said Laura Donnini.

“We believe that the new structure will enable us not only to increase our ability to acquire new editorial talents, but also to strengthen our publishing and marketing capabilities with a synergic approach to all possible content formats, keeping clear in mind that competition is no longer only for the market share but also for the share of attention of our potential readers”, continued Donnini.

The Editorial department of Edizioni Mondadori, reporting to Laura Donnini, Managing Director, includes: Literary Director – Antonio Riccardi; Fiction Books Department headed by Antonio Franchini; Non-fiction Books Department headed by Francesco Anzelmo; Popular Non-fiction Books Department headed by Gabriella Ungarelli; Children Books Department headed by Fiammetta Giorgi; Paperback Books Department temporarily headed by Antonio Riccardi.

The Mondadori Group is a media partner of the new edition of Social Media Week that begins today in Milan in conjunction with nine other cities around the world. The event, which will continue until Friday 22 February, is dedicated to the analysis of the role of social media in both the public and private aspects of people’s lives.

Mondadori, a leader in magazine and book publishing and with the most extensive network of bookstores in Italy, has always paid attention to the languages ​​and forms of communication of all of its communities of readers, both print and digital. The Group is present online with dozens of brands active on all of the major platforms and follows with interest the creativity and dynamics of the social landscape.

The social profiles of the Group include more than one million fans on Facebook and 700 thousand followers on Twitter. The company’s profile on Linkedin now has more than 10,000 contacts. Meanwhile the company’s brands are also active on other social networks, including YouTube, Pinterest and Tumblr.

On the occasion of Social Media Week, Mondadori’s digital channels will cover the issues emerging from the presentations, discussions and workshops, drawing up an outline of the new scenarios in media and technology. The Group will also make its own event space InMondadori (inlibreria.inmondadori.it), at its store in Piazza Duomo in Milan, available, making it one of the official locations of Social Media Week and host to some of the daily events in the programme.

Some of the most anticipated events include:

– on Tuesday 19 February, from 1pm “La città che dà spazio al tempo: conciliazione e work-life balance”, moderated by Annalisa Monfreda, editor of Donna Moderna;

– on Tuesday 19 February, from 3pm, “Facciamoci avanti. Le donne, il lavoro e la voglia di riuscire” (Putting ourselves forward. Women, work and the will to succeed), with Laura Donnini, general manager of Edizioni Mondadori. A round table discussion, organised in association with Valore D, and inspired by the book by Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, Facciamoci avanti (Lean In), which will be published in Italy on 12 March.

– on Wednesday 20 February, from 3pm, a panel discussion and analysis of the links between social media and the law, starting from the recent shutdown of the site Avaxhome.ws;

– on Wednesday 20 February, from 7pm, “Communicating Fashion on Tumblr”, a discussion led by Tamu McPherson, Style Director of Grazia.it;

– on Friday 22 February at 3pm, “Twitter: a guide to digital chat”, with Stefano Jugo, head of editorial marketing at Giulio Einaudi Editore.

Social Media Week will be followed by R101, which will give a voice to many of the most important personalities of the Italian net during the station’s most popular programmes.

You can follow Social Media Week on Twitter using the hashtag #SMWMilan

An up-to-date calendar of the events of Social Media Week is available at

socialmediaweek.org/milan/schedule/

With regard to press agency reports and comments on social networks concerning the career of Giulia Ichino, Mondadori underlines that professional qualifications are the only criteria that have ever guided the management of the company’s human resources.

Giulia Ichino, 34, and the mother of one child, has been the head of Italian fiction for Edizioni Mondadori since 2010 and is responsible for all of the series that publish new Italian fiction.

Having first joined Mondadori in 2002 as an editor, Giulia Ichino is now a well respected figure in Italian publishing and has worked with dozens of authors, from Giuseppe Pontiggia to Margaret Mazzantini, Andrea Camilleri, Roberto Saviano, Paolo Giordano, Niccolò Ammaniti, Alessandro Piperno, Carmine Abate, Chiara Gamberale, Daria Bignardi, Mauro Corona, Valerio Massimo Manfredi and many more.

The Mondadori Group is a media partner of the new edition of Social Media Week that, from 18 to 22 February, returns to Milan in conjunction with nine other cities around the world.
The event is dedicated to the analysis of the role of social media in both the public and private aspects of people’s lives.

Mondadori, a leader in magazine and book publishing and with the most extensive network of bookstores in Italy, has always paid attention to the languages and forms of communication of all of its communities of readers, both print and digital. The Group is present online with dozens of brands active on all of the major platforms and follows with interest the creativity and dynamics of the social landscape.
The social profiles of the Group include more than one million fans on Facebook and 700 thousand followers on Twitter. The company’s profile on Linkedin now has more than 9,500 contacts. Meanwhile the company’s brands are also active on other social networks, including YouTube, Pinterest and Tumblr.

On the occasion of Social Media Week, Mondadori’s digital channels will cover the issues emerging from the presentations, discussions and workshops, drawing up an outline of the new scenarios in media and technology.
The Group will also make its own event space InMondadori, at its store in Piazza Duomo in Milan, available, making it one of the official locations of Social Media Week and host to some of the daily events in the programme.

Among the most anticipated events on Tuesday 19 February, from 3pm, a round table discussion “Facciamoci avanti. Le donne, il lavoro e la voglia di riuscire” (Putting ourselves forward. Women, work and the will to succeed), with Laura Donnini, general manager of Edizioni Mondadori. The meeting, organised in collaboration with Valore D, discusses the issues raised by the book by Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, Facciamoci avanti (Lean In), which will be published in Italy on 12 March.

Another woman will be the main guest of the evening dedicated to the use of Tumblr in the fashion world: Tamu McPherson, Style Director of Grazia.it, will lead the discussion at the meeting on Wednesday 20 February at 7.30pm with Valentine Uhovski, Tumblr‘s Fashion Evangelist.

A panel devoted to legal issues in social media will provide an opportunity to discuss the forced closure of the site Avaxhome.ws, obtained by the Mondadori Group in the autumn: on Wednesday 20 February at 3pm legal experts will attempt to clarify the not subtle difference between the free movement of editorial content and crimes committed on the net.

Social Media Week will be followed by R101, which will give a voice to many of the most important personalities of the Italian net during the station’s most popular programmes.

An up-to-date calendar of the events of Social Media Week is available at http://socialmediaweek.org/milan/schedule/

From February Annalisa Monfreda will be the new editor of the weekly Donna Moderna. At the same time Monfreda will also take over editorial responsibility for the weekly Confidenze.

Annalisa Monfreda, 34, the mother of 2 children, and a degree in modern literature from the University of Bari, began her career in 1996. After initial professional experience and a Master’s in journalism at the University of Urbino she worked for a number of magazine titles, including Donna Moderna. In 2005 she joined Gruner+Jahr/Mondadori on the staff of Geo and was subsequently appointed editor of Topgirl in 2008 and the following year of Geo. Since September 2010 she has been the editor of Cosmopolitan.

Mondadori wishes to extend its sincerest thanks to Patrizia Avoledo for the professionalism and passion demonstrated over the years she has been with the company: a lengthy period during which Patrizia has contributed, with her team, to making Donna Moderna Italy’s top selling women’s magazine, with over 2.7 million readers (Audipress 2012/II).

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 2013:

• Wednesday 20 March 2013: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2012;
• Tuesday 14 May 2013: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the 1st Quarter Report to 31 March 2013;
• Tuesday 30 July 2013: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the Interim Report to 30 June 2013;
• Thursday 14 November 2013: meeting of the Board of Directors for the approval of the 3rd Quarter Report to 30 September 2013.

The Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders for the approval of the Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2012 will be held on Tuesday 23 April 2013, on first calling, or Wednesday 24 April 2013, on an eventual second calling.

Analysts’ presentations of the results for the full year to 31 December 2012, the interim report to 30 June 2013 and the reports on the first and third quarters of 2013 will be held on the dates, as indicated above, of the respective meetings of the Board of Directors.

Any eventual changes will be promptly communicated to the market.

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. has announced that, following the receipt of authorization by the Spanish antitrust body, the details were finalised today based on the contract signed with Media Finance Holding (Bertelsmann Group) on 5 November. The said contract, which has already been communicated to the market, concerns the sale of 50% of the share capital of the Spanish registered company Random House Mondadori S.A..

The value of the transaction has been defined at a total of €54.5 million, including cash, which will have a positive impact on the consolidated income statement estimated at around €2.8 million.