Impresa

Impresa Sociedade Gestora de Participações Sociais SA 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]

Negotiations emerged on September 26, 2025 that Italian group MediaForEurope was set to acquire shares in the group.[3] With the announcement of the IPO, Impresa's stock prices doubled.[4]

Television

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

Publications (Impresa Publishing)

In 2018 Portuguese company Trust in News (TIN) acquired the magazines owned by Impresa, except Expresso and Blitz.[5]

  • Activa
  • Arquitectura & Construção
  • Caras[6]
  • Caras Decoração
  • Casa Cláudia
  • Courrier Internacional
  • Exame
  • Exame Informática
  • FHM (ceased publication on 22 February 2010)[7]
  • Jornal de Letras
  • Mística
  • Telenovelas
  • Visão[6]

Digital (Impresa Digital)

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

References

  1. A Good Impres[a]sion from Portuguese Media Equity Research, 1 September 2005, retrieved 14 April 2015^
  2. Susana Salgado. The Internet and Democracy Building in Lusophone African Countries Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 28 November 2014, retrieved 17 May 2015^
  3. Grupo da família Berlusconi está a negociar compra de parte do capital da Impresa, dona da SIC e Expresso Observador^
  4. Em negociações com Impresa, grupo italiano tem como desafio ser principal operadora de TV e media na Europa dn.pt^
  5. The Portuguese publishing group Trust in News manages their advertisements from now with ADonLINE by Protecmedia protectmedia, retrieved 21 April 2020^
  6. Portuguese Media BPI Equity, 5 March 2014, retrieved 2 February 2015^
  7. FHM to close Publicitas, 12 February 2010, retrieved 2 February 2015^