{{Short description|Spanish mass media conglomerate}} {{Infobox company | name = Planeta Corporación, S.R.L. | logo = Grupo Planeta logo.svg | image = Madrid - Sede del diario La Razón (calle Josefa Valcárcel 42) 3.JPG | image_caption = Current head office | type = Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada | founded = | founder = {{ill|José Manuel Lara Hernández|es}} | hq_location_city = Madrid | hq_location_country = Spain | distribution = | key_people = {{ill|José Creuheras|es}} (president) | industry = Mass media | products = Publishing, broadcasting, television production, film production | num_employees = | website = {{URL|http://www.planeta.es}} }} '''Planeta Corporación, S.R.L.''', doing business as '''Grupo Planeta''' ({{literal translation|Planet Group}}), is a Spanish mass media conglomerate operating in Spain, Portugal, France and Latin America. It is headquartered in Madrid.<ref>"[https://www.planeta.es/en/privacy-policy Privacy Policy]." Planeta. Retrieved on 15 May 2018. "PLANETA CORPORACIÓN, SRL, with registered address at Josefa Valcárcel, nº 42, 28027 Madrid,"</ref>
Editorial Planeta, founded in 1949, was the seed of Grupo Planeta, which includes many more publishing imprints as well as other media assets. Planeta is the primary shareholder of the media group Atresmedia (dominating alongside Mediaset España the free-to-air television landscape in Spain under a duopoly) and the publisher of the Conservative newspaper ''La Razón''.<ref>{{Cite web|first=Francisco|last=Seoane Pérez|title=Informe Nacional sobre Medios – España|url=https://mediagovernance.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_mediagovernance/PDF/SIR_Media_report_Spain_spanish.pdf|page=12; 14}}</ref> Since 1952, Planeta awards the Premio Planeta de Novela literary prize.
==History and profile== 250px|thumb|left|Former head office of Planeta in Barcelona The company was founded as Editorial Planeta in 1949.<ref name=imc>{{cite web|title=Country Profile: Spain|url=http://www.mediadb.eu/en/data-base/eu-laenderportraets/spanien.html|publisher=Institute of Media and Communications Study|access-date=21 February 2015|archive-date=21 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221222930/http://www.mediadb.eu/en/data-base/eu-laenderportraets/spanien.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> {{ill|José Manuel Lara Hernández|es}} was the founder of the company.<ref name=imc/> Starting in 1952, the publishing group awards the Premio Planeta de Novela literary prize.{{Sfn|Tàpies|San Román|Gil López|2014|p=157}}
The company expanded from Spain to the Latin American market in the mid-1960s.{{Sfn|Tàpies|San Román|Gil López|2014|pp=157–158}}
In 1992, Planeta acquired the Espasa Calpe publishing company and the {{ill|Casa del Libro|es}} bookstore chain.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.diariosur.es/20091129/economia/dinero-empleo/casa-libro-escribe-primera-200911291354.html|date=29 November 2009|title=Casa del Libro escribe la primera página de su historia en la ciudad|first=E.|last=Cabezas|website=Diario Sur}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=100 familias que cambiaron el mundo. Las empresas familiares y la industrialización|url=https://blog.iese.edu/empresafamiliar/files/2014/12/100_Familias-vfi-pfd.pdf|page=157|first=Josep|last=Tàpies|first2=Elena|last2=San Román|first3=Águeda|last3=Gil López|year=2014|publisher=Fundación Josep Serra|isbn=978-84-86851-96-5}}</ref>
José Manuel Lara Hernández's son, José Manuel Lara Bosch, became the company president upon the death of his father in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20150131/54426714632/jose-manuel-lara-bosch.html|website=La Vanguardia|title=Fallece José Manuel Lara Bosch, presidente del Grupo Planeta|date=31 January 2015}}</ref> Also in 2003, Planeta became the primary shareholder of Antena 3.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.panoramaaudiovisual.com/2010/01/25/antena-3-porque-veinte-anos-no-es-nada/|website=Panorama Audiovisual|title=Antena 3… porque veinte años no es nada|date=25 January 2010}}</ref>
The merger of Antena 3 with LaSexta (by means of the absorption of the latter) was announced in December 2011 even though it was not formalised until October 2012.<ref>{{Cite journal|issn=0122-8285|url=http://www.scielo.org.co/pdf/pacla/v16n2/v16n2a05.pdf|first=José Vicente|last=García-Santamaría|journal=Palabra Clave 16|issue=2<!--|pages=366–397-->|title=Televisión y concentración en España: el duopolio de Mediaset y Atresmedia|page=381}}</ref> After the merger, LaSexta somewhat retained a perception of a left-leaning profile, starkly contrasting to those of the rest of Planeta media properties.{{CN|date=December 2023}}
With its purchase of Editis in 2009, Planeta became one of the largest publishers in the world,<ref>{{cite news|title=Global Publishing Leaders 2014: Planeta|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/63096-global-publishing-leaders-2014-planeta.html|access-date=27 March 2015|work=Publishers Weekly|date=27 June 2014}}</ref> with over 1 billion dollars of revenue that year. Both in 2013 and 2014 the company was the eight largest book publisher in the world.<ref>{{cite news|title=The World's 56 Largest Book Publishers, 2014|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/63004-the-world-s-56-largest-book-publishers-2014.html|access-date=27 March 2015|work=Publishers Weekly|date=27 June 2014}}</ref>
Following the death of Lara Bosch in 2015, {{ill|José Creuheras|es|lt=José Creuheras Margenat}} became the president of the company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cincodias.elpais.com/cincodias/2015/02/13/empresas/1423842247_154278.html|website=Cinco Días|title=Jose Creuheras, nuevo presidente del grupo Planeta|date=16 February 2015}}</ref>
Hitherto headquartered in Barcelona,<ref>"[http://www.planeta.es/eng/asp/aviso.asp Legal Warning] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120045054/http://www.planeta.es/eng/asp/aviso.asp |date=2010-11-20 }}." Planeta. Retrieved on 20 December 2010. "Planeta Corporación, S.R.L. is a Spanish business entity, with address at Av. Diagonal, 662-664, 08034 Barcelona, Spain,"</ref> Grupo Planeta decided to move its head office to Madrid in October 2017 because of the "uncertainty" caused by the thwarted Catalan declaration of independence.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/politica/planeta-independencia-madrid_92342_102.html|website=Crónica Global|title=Planeta traslada su sede social a Madrid|language=es|access-date=19 October 2021|publisher=El Español|date=10 October 2017}}</ref>
==Selected imprints== {{Column list| * {{ill|Editorial Planeta|es}} (including Planeta Cómic) * Ediciones Destino * Emecé Editores * Joaquín Mortiz * Planeta DeAgostini * Planeta Junior * Seix Barral * Grup62 }}
==See also== {{Portal|Spain|Companies}} * Media of Spain * Books in Spain
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.planeta.es/eng/asp/home.html Official website] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100929155239/http://www.planeta.es/cat/asp/index.html Official website] {{in lang|ca}} *[http://www.planeta.es/esp/asp/home.html Official website] {{in lang|es}} {{Authority control}} Category:Planeta Group Category:1949 establishments in Spain Category:Publishing companies established in 1949 Category:Publishing companies of Spain Category:Companies based in Madrid Category:Book publishing companies of Spain Category:Mass media in Madrid Category:Conglomerate companies of Spain