Grupo Prisa

PRISA is the world’s leading Spanish and Portuguese-language business group in the fields of education, information and entertainment. Present in 22 countries, it reaches more than 50 million users through its global brands El País, 40 Principales, Santillana and Alfaguara. It’s presence in Brazil and Portugal and among the growing Hispanic community in the US has given the group an Ibero-American dimension and has opened up a potential global market of 700 million people.

In the fiscal year 2009, PRISA had an operating income of 3,208.58 million euros with an EBITDA of 623.75 million euros, with improved margins in comparable terms.

The group employs 14,987 people throughout Europe and America and operates in four main business areas: Education-Publishing, Press, Radio and Audiovisual, plus the group's digital arm which works across each of these main areas.

PRISA has had a firm ethical commitment to society since the very beginning and the group is active in projects that promote and foster education, culture and the arts and is sensitive to the needs and requirements of the milieus in which it operates.