Porto Editora

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Porto Editora, Lda.
legal form Lda. ( GmbH )
founding 1944
Seat Porto PortugalPortugalPortugal 
management Vasco Teixeira
Number of employees 1400 (2010)
sales 150 million euros (2010)
Branch publishing company
Website portoeditora.pt

Porto Editora is a Portuguese publisher based in Porto . He is the partner of Ernst Klett Verlag for the joint German - Portuguese dictionaries.

Publishing house bookshop in Porto

history

The company was founded in Porto in 1944 by Vasco Teixeira, a pedagogue and university professor. It was initially a publisher of textbooks and encyclopedias . Through a series of acquisitions and its own start-ups, the company grew into the most important publishing house in Portugal. In 2010, Porto Editora took over Direct Group Bertelsmann's Portugal business .

Corporate structure

After a wave of mergers in the Portuguese book market, Porto Editora is now the largest publishing house in Portugal and market leader in Portugal ahead of the second largest publishing group ( LeYa ). The two companies together share around 47% of the market.

Publishers

A number of publishers are now part of the publishing group, including the Plural Editores founded by the company in Mozambique (2002) and Angola (2005). The houses acquired through acquisitions also include numerous names from the Portuguese publishing landscape such as Pergaminho , Temas & Debates , Sextante , Quetzal and Assírio & Alvim .

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multimedia

Porto Editora maintains the free Internet encyclopedia Infopédia , the Diciopédia multimedia lexicon series and the e-learning platform Escola Virtual ( German : Virtual School ). Since 2008, after the acquisition and conversion of Webboom.pt, which was founded in 1999, Porto Editora has been running an online mail order for books and films with Wook .

trade

Since the takeover of the Portuguese division of Direct Group Bertelsmann in 2010, Porto Editora has also included the Círculo de Leitores book club , Livraria Bertrand with its 54 branches and online retailers , and other companies from the former Direct Group Portugal . In addition, the company continues to operate the original Porto Editora bookstores.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Article of November 17, 2010 in Ípsilon Para um editor escolar, editar ficção é fácil on ipsilon.publico.pt, the cultural supplement of the Público , accessed on October 15, 2012.
  2. ↑ portoeditora.pt , accessed on October 16, 2012.
  3. ↑ Newspaper article from August 31, 2012 in the Diário de Notícias , accessed on October 16, 2012.
  4. ↑ Newspaper article from April 10, 2010 in the Público , accessed on October 16, 2012.