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Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
. The company operates in Spain, Portugal, France and Latin America. Editorial Planeta, its flagship, was founded in 1949. Planeta owns over 70 publishing houses worldwide. It publishes the newspapers La Razón
La Razón (Madrid)
La Razón is Spain's fifth highest-circulation general-interest daily newspaper based in Madrid. It is the newest of the five most read, having been founded in 1998 by Luis Maria Ansón....
and ADN
ADN (newspaper)
ADN is a Spanish free daily newspaper published by Editorial Página Cero, a company owned by Grupo Planeta and groups in regional press, part of Grupo Antena 3. The paper is distributed to 16 provinces with local editions in Spain.-History:...
. Besides publishing, the group operates in the areas of collectibles, training, direct marketing, distance learning, and audiovisual media. With its purchase of Editis
Editis
Editis is the second-largest publishing group in France, created in January 2004 by the regrouping of approximately 60% publishing assets of Vivendi, the other part having been sold to Lagardère Group....
in 2008, it became one of the largest publishers in the world, with over 1 billion dollars of revenue that year.
Selected imprints
- Editorial Planeta
- Ediciones Destino
- Emecé EditoresEmecé EditoresEmecé Editores is an Argentine publishing house, currently a subsidiary of Grupo Planeta.The company was founded in 1939 by Mariano Medina del Río, shortly after his arrival from Spain, with the literary collaboration of Álvaro de las Casas, and the support of Medina's former classmate Carlos Braun...
- EditisEditisEditis is the second-largest publishing group in France, created in January 2004 by the regrouping of approximately 60% publishing assets of Vivendi, the other part having been sold to Lagardère Group....
- Le RobertDictionnaires Le RobertDictionnaires Le Robert is a French publisher of dictionaries founded by Paul Robert. Its Petit Robert is often considered the authoritative single-volume dictionary of the French language.-Bilingual dictionaries:...
- PlonPlon (publisher)Plon is a French book publishing company, founded in 1852 by Henri Plon and his two brothers.The Plon family were Walloons coming from Nivelle, France. One of their ancestors is probably the Danish typographer Jehan Plon who lived at the end of the 16th century.-History:The Editions Plon were...
- Le Robert
- Planeta DeAgostiniPlaneta DeAgostiniPlaneta DeAgostini is a Spanish-Italian publisher and a subsidiary of Grupo Planeta specializing in collectable books, sold in pieces, periodically through newsstands. It has its headquarters in Barcelona....