Grupo Planeta stands among the seven largest publishing groups worldwide thanks to the sum of activity of over one hundred imprints – large and small, traditional and innovative, generalist and specialised – who publish in Spanish, French, Portuguese and Catalan. It is indisputable leader in the Spanish and Latin American markets and the second largest publishing group in France.

The publishers grouped around Grupo Planeta in Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilian, as well as those grouped around Editis in French and Grup 62 in Catalan, ensure the projection of over 15,000 authors.

Grupo Planeta boasts an exceptional catalogue of works of universal literature, knowledge and arts, which constitutes an immense cultural heritage that it puts at the disposal of all its readers.

For the last fifty years, Grupo Planeta has been connecting with the cultural interests of society, serving it with professionally produced and constantly updated products of quality. The prestige of its encyclopædias, major reference works, books and art collections has spread to other publications catering for a more varied public, including children and young people. Meanwhile, the contents of its traditional volumes have been adapted and enriched with new multimedia and online formats.

Based on the experience and success of Editorial Planeta Grandes Publicaciones, companies such as Barsa Planeta, EDP editores, Placresa and Plawerg have set down roots in the main countries of Latin America and in Portugal. This process of internationalisation has also been favoured through collaborations and alliances with companies and institutions of recognised prestige such as UNESCO, National Geographic, Larousse, BBC, the European Council, Disney and Jim Henson.

Prominent names in the world of pastimes and hobbies are those of Planeta DeAgostini and Altaya, two Grupo Planeta imprints that constitute a compulsory reference in the world of collectibles. While Altaya has focused exclusively on these products, Planeta DeAgostini adds to them an editorial line based on comic greats, from the American superheroes and Japanese manga to the French bande dessinée and both well-established and up-and-coming new Spanish authors.

Newsstands are the meeting point for Planeta DeAgostini and Altaya with fans of all types of hobbies such as model-building, dolls’ houses or reproductions of cars and trucks. Similarly, cultural concerns related to literature, music and film have their collections, as do videogames, characters from comics and films, and hit television series, with licences from companies such as BBC, Disney, Warner and Lucasfilms.

Grupo Planeta is one of the three major Spanish media groups thanks to its position as a reference shareholder in press, television, radio, advertising and Internet companies that operate in Spain. Together with the DeAgostini group, Planeta stands as the main shareholder and manager of Grupo Antena 3, which owns Antena 3 TV, the leading private television channel in Spain, the channels Neox, Nova and Nitro as well as the new platforms that unite television and the Internet. Onda Cero, the second largest commercial radio station in Spain, Europa FM and Onda Melodía are the group’s radio stations, and it also owns advertising management companies. In press, it publish the daily newspapers La Razón, the fourth most influential daily in Spain.The Group also publishes magazines such as Historia y Vida, Psychologies and Lonely Planet.

DeAPlaneta and Planeta Junior are the Grupo Planeta audiovisual companies dedicated to the production and distribution of cinema films, television series, documentaries and children’s and young people’s entertainment programmes for all audiences. DeAPlaneta, the result of the coming together of Planeta and DeAgostini, has numerous Oscar-winning films such as En tierra hostil, El pianista, Michael Clayton and the documentary El viaje del emperador, as well as recent hits such as Señales del futuro and the animation film Planet 51. A catalogue of over seven-hundred films.

Planeta Junior, present in the countries of Southern Europe, distributes children’s contents for television, cinema, books and promotions and manages licences for brands such as Gormiti, Barrio Sésamo or the successful saga Crepúsculo. Classic children’s series that are the property of Planeta Junior such as La Abeja Maya, Heidi and Vicky el Vikingo will soon be revamped with new productions in 3D.

In the sphere of training and the updating of professional knowledge, Grupo Planeta has an offering, in both attendance and distance formats, that is very much geared to the jobs market. This activity has the added value of new technologies (e-learning, virtual campuses, video tutorials, blogs, etc.) and is complemented with publications devoted to management and personal and professional development, such as the Harvard Deusto magazines and those published by CEAC. The educational offering includes language courses and vocational training from Home English and CEAC to the Deusto programmes for ongoing training, focusing on business and the health sector. University and postgraduate training is present at the Online Business School and EAE business schools. In customised training, Laudeo Oposiciones is training candidates in preparation for specific official entry exams and Planeta Formación Corporativa is developing projects for companies based on the Grupo Planeta collection of contents.

Grupo Planeta reinforces its role in the commercialisation and sale of educational, leisure and domestic products. Planeta Directo, Planeta Directo Selección and Shopo offer products from the Group’s companies or selected among the finest brands ranging from education through family entertainment to exclusive pieces of art and interior design and innovative products for home and health. Contributing towards the success of these companies, in addition to quality, is good customer management, efficient advertising campaigns and telephone sales, supported increasingly by the Internet.

The twenty-five Casa del Libro establishments and the model virtual bookstore casadellibro.com reflect the vocation of Grupo Planeta in the promotion and dissemination of cultural creation and its commitment to bring authors and editors closer to the public at large. Also, Grupo Planeta recently acquired 50 % of Círculo de Lectores from the Bertelsmann Group to expand the projection of books and culture, adapting them to an entertainment fitting in which the 21st century.

The Grupo Planeta Internet companies opt for this channel as an innovative base in the commercialisation of contents and products with a vision, from its origins, that is international and multi-platform. And more specifically in all that is related with digital entertainment, leisure, social networks and user communities, as well as cinema films and video games and merchandising for young people. Through Ulises Interactive, Grupo Planeta offers global strategies and marketing and online communication strategies to companies that want to channel their business via the Internet. Grupo Planeta also participates in Zed Worldwide, present in 61 countries, worldwide leader in mobile contents in association with the main telephone companies. CentraldelVideojuego, TiendaOcioJoven and DVDgo offer the online purchase of a broad range of articles in each of their specialities, while lanetro is the portal for discovering, enjoying and sharing leisure in the main Spanish cities.