Parent company | PRISA |
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Founded | 1959 |
Founders |
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Country of origin | Spain |
Headquarters location | Madrid |
Official website |
www |
Grupo Santillana, formerly Santillana Ediciones Generales, is a Spanish publisher founded in 1959 by Jesús de Polanco and Francisco Pérez González. [1] [2]
From 2008 and due to the high debts of the group PRISA, Santillana made disinvestments to guide itself. [3] [4] [5] In 2008 the bookshop Crisol, which come to have fourteen subsidiaries in Spain, two in Buenos Aires and one in Lima, closed. [6] [7] In 2010, it was sold the 25% of shares. [8]
In 2014 Santillana sold all its trade publishing (including the Alfaguara and Objetiva publishing houses) to Penguin Random House for €72 million. Santillana then shifted its focus towards educational publishing. [9]
On October 19, 2020, Santillana was acquired by the Finnish company Sanoma. [10]
Parent company | PRISA |
---|---|
Founded | 1959 |
Founders |
|
Country of origin | Spain |
Headquarters location | Madrid |
Official website |
www |
Grupo Santillana, formerly Santillana Ediciones Generales, is a Spanish publisher founded in 1959 by Jesús de Polanco and Francisco Pérez González. [1] [2]
From 2008 and due to the high debts of the group PRISA, Santillana made disinvestments to guide itself. [3] [4] [5] In 2008 the bookshop Crisol, which come to have fourteen subsidiaries in Spain, two in Buenos Aires and one in Lima, closed. [6] [7] In 2010, it was sold the 25% of shares. [8]
In 2014 Santillana sold all its trade publishing (including the Alfaguara and Objetiva publishing houses) to Penguin Random House for €72 million. Santillana then shifted its focus towards educational publishing. [9]
On October 19, 2020, Santillana was acquired by the Finnish company Sanoma. [10]