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16-412: Founded in 1927 by entrepreneur Angelo Rizzoli as A. Rizzoli & C., it started in the press industry by buying out four national magazines, and later entering the publishing industry. Restructured and taken over a number of times, particularly in the 1980s when two of its executives became involved in the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano and the illegal Masonic Lodge Propaganda Due – or P2 . Following

32-413: A private equity fund International Acquisitions Holding formed a new shareholders pact that opposed to Cairo; their offer to the public was lost to the offer from Cairo. Earlier that year, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), a company of the 2008 pact, distributed the shares of RCS the company owns (16.7% of the share capital), to the shareholders of FCA, making the shareholders of FCA freely decided to sell

48-722: A young age and raised in poverty, he rose to prosperity. He apprenticed in the printer trade and later became an entrepreneur in his twenties. In 1927, Rizzoli founded the company A. Rizzoli & Co. (later RCS MediaGroup ). In 1927 Rizzoli acquired Novella magazine, a bi-weekly primarily for women that reached a circulation of 130,000 copies, from Mondadori an independent publisher who specialized in books and magazines. After his initial purchase, he added several new publications including Annabella , Bertoldo , Candido , Omnibus , and Oggi e L'Europeo . In 1949 he began publishing books including both classics and popular novels. He purchased Cartiera di Lama di Reno in 1954,

64-684: Is an Italian businessman and media proprietor. Cairo was born in Milan. His parents were originally from Masio, within the province of Alessandria . In his teen years, he was a promising football player, and went on to play for Pro Sesto as a midfielder. Cairo graduated at Bocconi University in 1981. After working for a few years as personal assistant of Silvio Berlusconi at Fininvest , he founded his own company in 2000, Cairo Communication . Cairo, via U.T. Communications and UT Belgium Holding, owns 50.1% stake in Cairo Communication. He

80-529: Is located at Villa Arbusto within the guest house of that place, at Lacco Ameno. Within this are held 500 photographic-records or evidence of his activities taken on-set during production. The museum also holds the Pithekoussai Archaeological Museum. Rizzoli married Anna Marzorati with whom he had two children, Andrea and Giuseppina. Rizzoli died aged 81 years of age. Urbano Cairo Urbano Cairo (born 21 May 1957)

96-600: The United States and China . Already distributing the Italian version, in March 2008, RCS reached agreement with Global Media Publishing to launch a Russian version of its Sport Week magazine and develop a Russian language website sportweek.ru, which will be supplemented with mobile phone services. The financial investment division holds interest in the capital of major Italian companies, including Banca Intesa ,

112-401: The book publishing sector. Its structure comprises four divisions: RCS Libri Italia, RCS Education, RCS Partworks, and Rizzoli USA. The whole division was sold to Arnoldo Mondadori Editore , with some imprints were sold to other investors. After the transaction, RCS Libri was renamed to Rizzoli Libri. It owned the rights to use the brand Rizzoli in book publishing only. The partworks division

128-538: The internet and digital and satellite TV; it also has a division which handles advertising sales & distribution markets across all media divisions. In Italy, the group manages large daily newspapers such as Corriere della Sera , publish popular magazines including Il Mondo ; and a diverse range of school, university, and business publications. In Spain , through Unedisa it publishes leading daily newspaper El Mundo . It also has representation in Portugal ,

144-472: The 1982 death of Roberto Calvi , the group applied for bankruptcy protection and greatly downsized. In 2016, Cairo Communication acquired the controlling stake of RCS MediaGroup. In the same year, Italian Competition Authority approved the sales of RCS Libri ( a.k.a. Rizzoli Libri) from RCS MediaGroup to Arnoldo Mondadori Editore . The timeline of the company: RCS MediaGroup's sectors include newspapers , magazines and books , radio broadcasting ,

160-555: The foundation for what would become an Italian publishing empire. His operations were moved in 1960 to a complex on Via Civitavecchia in Milan. He was amongst the first producers of daily newspapers within the relatively newly established nation of Italy. Active in film, he had control of the French company Francinex with which he co-produced Federico Fellini 's La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8½ (1963), as well as French films such as Une Parisienne (1957). In 1964 Rizzoli opened

176-466: The group's magazines. In Italy the company has a market share of about 18%, with a portfolio of more than 30 publications. Pubblicità Sector is the agency for the acquisition of advertising customers for the group's publications. It is the leading company in Italy for the acquisition of advertising for print media , for which it has a market share of 19%. RCS Libri runs the group's activities in

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192-503: The internet company Dada, and Pirelli (which holds a complementary cross-holding). The company employs 5,558 employees. Quotidiani Sector is the publisher of the group's daily newspapers in Italy and in Spain . The company holds a leadership position in the national daily press in Italy, where it has a 19% market share , and in Spain, with an 18% market share. Periodici Sector publishes

208-521: The original Rizzoli International Bookstore in New York City at 712 Fifth Avenue , designed by architect Ferdinand Gottlieb . The bookstore was featured in various Hollywood films, most notably, Woody Allen 's Manhattan and Falling in Love with Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep . He also produced the controversial documentary film Africa Addio . A museum about Rizzoli's life and career

224-438: The shares of RCS to either factions or kept the shares as their own investments; Exor , the major shareholder of FCA, sold the stake of RCS immediately. As of 26 September 2016 Angelo Rizzoli Angelo Rizzoli , OML ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈandʒelo ritˈtsɔːli] ; 31 October 1889 – 24 September 1970) was an Italian publisher and film producer. Rizzoli was born in Milan on 31 October 1889. Orphaned at

240-404: The stake held by Italmobiliare increased to 7.465%. Italmobiliare did not excised all of their rights in the capital increase, making the company owned just 3.0042% of the share capital and 3.7469% ordinary shares of RCS. In 2016 Urbano Cairo , via Cairo Communication , successfully completed a hostile takeover of RCS MediaGroup. However, Mediobanca , Unipol , Pirelli , Diego Della Valle and

256-446: Was sold in 2011. Publishing houses On 26 January 2005 shareholders which control 63.527% of ordinary share capital came to a shareholders' agreement freezing, the participants from selling or trading their holdings. On 14 March 2008 the pact agreed to extend their agreement for another three years until 2011. Italmobiliare , a company in the pact, acquired 2.332% stake of RCS from their subsidiary Italcementi in 2010, making

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