Grupo Prisa: landmarks

Chronology

This chronology is indicative only. Context is provided by the broader communications and media timeline.

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1960 Santillana de Ediciones publishing house founded

1963 Ediciones Santillana SA founded in Argentina

1968 Santillana del Pacifico founded in Chile

1970 attempt to establish El País interdicted by Franco

1972 Prisa founded

1972 Editoral Santillana and Editoral Nuevo Mexico founded in Mexico

1972 Santillana USA Publishing Co founded

1974 Santillana buys Taurus publishers

1976 Santillana establishes Itaca book distributors

1976 El País launched

1977 Editoral Santillana founded in Venezuela

1980 Santillana buys Alfaguara publishers

1981 Santillana SA founded in Peru

1986 Santillana buys Aguilar publishers

1987 Crisol book stores launched

1988 Editoral Santillana founded in Colombia

1989 Constancia Editores founded in Portugal

1991 Ediciones Santillana SA founded in Puerto Rico

1992 Ediciones Santillana SA founded in Uruguay

1993 Santillana SA founded in Costa Rica

1993 Santillana SA founded in Ecuador

1994 Editoral Santillana founded in Dominican Republic

1994 Santillana de Ediciones founded in Bolivia

1994 PRISA buys 18% (later diluted to 7%) stake in Independent Newspapers (publisher of The Independent and Independent on Sunday in UK)

1994 makes unsuccessful takeover bid with MGN and Espresso for Independent

1995 Spanish national telecoms operator Telefonica joins with Sogecable in Cablevision partnership

1995 Editoral Santillana founded in Guatemala

1995 Telefonica withdraws from Cablevision, Sogecable assumes full ownership

1997 Santillana SA founded in Paraguay

1998 sells 7% stake in Newspaper Publishing (publisher of The Independent and Independent on Sunday in UK) to INM

1999 buys 19% of Colombia radio chain Grupo Caracol for $60m

2000 Prisa absorbs Grupo Santillana

2000 Prisa listed on Madrid stock exchange

2000 forms Grupo Latino de Radiodifusion

2000 buys Editora Moderna in Brazil

2000 buys Mateu Press and parent company Mateu Cromo in Spain

2001 takes majority stake in publisher Net Languages

2001 buys 49.5% stake in Televisa's Sistema Radiopolis for US$60m

2001 sells Inicia ISP (300,000 subscribers) to Tiscali for €8.2m

2003 sells 80% of Prisaprint (Spanish printing operations) to joint venture with UK company Polestar and a Spanish investment fund