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Impresa Sociedade Gestora de Participações Sociais SA

Trade name	Grupo Impresa
Company type	Public
Traded as	Euronext Lisbon: IPR
Founded	1972; 53 years ago (1972)
Founder	Francisco Pinto Balsemão
Headquarters	Oeiras , Portugal
Products	TV stations, magazines, internet
Website	Impresa

Impresa (full name: IMPRESA Sociedade Gestora de Participações Sociais SA) (Euronext Lisbon: IPR ) is a Portuguese media conglomerate, headquartered in Paço de Arcos, in Oeiras municipality. It is the owner of SIC TV channel, and Expresso newspaper, among other leading media, like several magazine publications. A third online business segment was launched under the name Impresa Digital.

The company, which was founded by Francisco Pinto Balsemão,^[1] is listed on the Euronext Lisbon stock exchange.

History

The origins of Impresa goes back to 1972.^[1] In 1991 the company established a holding company, the Balsemão group.^[1] Next year it started the first private television channel, SIC, in Portugal.^[1]

In 2011 the company established Media Rumo SA in Angola.^[2]

Television

• SIC
• SIC Notícias
• SIC Mulher
• SIC Radical
• SIC K
• SIC Caras
• SIC Novelas
• SIC Internacional
• SPT

Publications (Impresa Publishing)

In 2018 Portuguese company Trust in News (TIN) acquired the magazines owned by Impresa, except Expresso and Blitz.^[3]

• Activa
• Arquitectura & Construção
• Caras^[4]
• Caras Decoração
• Casa Cláudia
• Courrier Internacional
• Exame
• Exame Informática
• FHM (ceased publication on 22 February 2010)^[5]
• Jornal de Letras
• Mística
• Telenovelas
• Visão^[4]

Digital (Impresa Digital)

• Escape
• Info Portugal
• Aeiou
• Olhares
• Mygames (now a magazine)

References

1. "A Good Impres[a]sion from Portuguese Media" (PDF). Equity Research. 1 September 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
2. Susana Salgado (28 November 2014). The Internet and Democracy Building in Lusophone African Countries. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-4094-7293-3. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
3. "The Portuguese publishing group Trust in News manages their advertisements from now with ADonLINE by Protecmedia". protectmedia. Retrieved 21 April 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
4. "Portuguese Media". BPI Equity. 5 March 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
5. "FHM to close". Publicitas. 12 February 2010. Archived from the original on 3 December 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2015.

External links

• Impresa
• Impresa Publishing