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(From El Pais) Spain's Lara family owns close to 2 per cent of Banco Sabadell, Spain's fourth largest bank, Jose Manual Lara has revealed in an informal conversation. Jose Manuel [...]

(From Europemedia) Spanish incumbent telco Telefonica distributed 30 per cent of Antena 3 as stock options amongst its stakeholders in March. Telefonica's administrative committee has decided to sell 25.1 per [...]

Argentina, Nov 7, 2002 (El Cronista/SABI via COMTEX) Espasa Calpe, one of the 10 companies owned by Grupo Planeta, the worldwide leader publishing company in the Hispanic world, signed a [...]

(From SABI (South American Business Information) - El Cronista (Argentina)) Byline: Shonda Novak Espasa Calpe, one of the 10 companies owned by Grupo Planeta, the worldwide leader publishing company in [...]

Brazil, Oct 15, 2002 (O Globo/SABI via COMTEX) The Spanish publishing conglomerate Planeta has recently entered Brazil. The aim is to compete with the also Spanish Santillana, controlled by Prisa, [...]

Venezuela, Oct 11, 2001 Barsa Planeta, book and CD-Rom sales group, grew its turnover by a third in the financial year July 2000 to June 2001 (a year earlier it [...]

Emece Editores, the last large publishing house in Argentina, was acquired by Planeta (Spain) in a deal involving US$15mil. Emece, Planeta, and Sudamericana are the top publishers in the country, [...]

HEADLINE NEWS (RUSSIA) Russia-EU summit discusses pricing oil, gas in euros Pricing Russian oil and gas in euros could signal the deepening of relations between Russia and the European Union, [...]

HEADLINE NEWS *** The Russian government is to hold two meetings next week - on November 11 and 13, the government information department told journalists on Wednesday. The meeting planned [...]

THE WEEK IN BRIEF *** Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia's GDP should increase by at least 100% in a decade. 'This is realistic, though very difficult,' Putin said in [...]

The European Commission on February 29 gave the go-ahead for the Bertelsmann and Planeta groups to join forces and set up Nuevas Ediciones de Bolsillo (NEB) in Spain. The joint [...]

A joint venture formed by the German publishing and multimedia giant Bertelsmann AG and Spain's Planeta Corporaci¢n S.R.L. received EU regulatory clearance on December 7. The European Commission has given [...]