Grupo Abril

Abril is a major Brazilian media group, headquartered in São Paulo. It was founded in the 1950s by Italian immigrant Victor Civita. The company is now headed by his son, Roberto Civita. In 2003, its share in the Brazilian market of magazines was of 62.8%, with an income of R$1.3 billion, or roughly US$450 million. Abril mainly acts in the magazine industry, but is also the majority shareholder of TVA, a cable television company (with Telefónica, Disney and Hearst), and MTV Brasil (with Viacom).

Since 2006, South African media company Naspers owns 30% of the company.

Assets

Magazines

*Veja
*Superinteressante (Brazilian version of Muy Interesante)
*Mundo Estranho (Superinteressante spinoff)
*Aventuras na História (Superinteressante spinoff)
*Exame
*Você S.A. (Exame spinoff)
*Info Exame
*VIP
*Playboy
*Men's Health
*Placar
*Capricho
*Quatro Rodas (Automobile Magazine)
*Revista MTV (subscription-only)
*Nova (Brazilian version of Cosmopolitan)
*Estilo de Vida (Brazilian version of InStyle)
*Elle
*Claudia
*Manequim
*Boa Forma
*Saúde! É Vital
*National Geographic
*Viva! Mais
*Ti Ti Ti
*Contigo!
*Caras
*Minha Novela
*Sou + Eu!
*Casa Claudia
*Arquitetura & Construção
*Recreio
*Vida Simples
*Bravo!

Television

*TVA (joint venture with Telefónica, The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Corporation)
*MTV Brasil (70%, with Viacom)
*Fiz
*Ideal

Educational publishing

*Editora Ática
*Editora Scipione

Past assets

*ESPN Brasil (stake sold to ESPN)
*Listel (sold to BellSouth, now part of Carvajal-owned Publicar)
*HBO Brasil (stake sold to HBO Latin America)
*Brasil Online (merged with UOL)
*UOL (stake sold to Grupo Folha)
*Abril Vídeo (closed, replaced with subsidiaries of Buena Vista Home Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)
*Bravo Brasil (a joint venture with the american cable network Bravo, now Bravo Brasil is Film&Arts)
*CMT Brasil (the brazilian version of Country Music Television, a joint venture with Viacom, the network closed in 2002)

External links

* [http://www.abril.com.br Abril website]