CLASS EDITORI SPA

Class Editori is a publishing house leader in business and financial news, fashion, luxury and lifestyle information in Italy. Founded in 1986 by Paolo Panerai, it has developed to become a multimedia group providing news and contents across all media platforms. The group's portfolio encompasses daily newspapers, as MF/Milano Finanza, ItaliaOggi and MF Fashion, magazines in Italian language (Capital, Class, Gentleman, Ladies, Patrimoni, MFF, MFL) and in English (Global Finance, Lombard) and ... real time information with the newswire MF-DowJonesNews, a joint venture with Dow Jones & Co. Class Editori has a unique positioning in Italy for tv channels, with a television bouquet which includes Class CNBC (a business tv in partnership with Nbc Universal and Mediaset, broadcasted on channel n°507 of the Sky satellite platform), Class TV (Digital terrestrial television, channel n°27), ClassTV Moda (Sky satellite, channel n°180) and Class Life (Iptv). Class Editori tv system is completed by its Out of Home TV network, the leading one in Italy, with four different channels with screens positioned in key locations in the main Italian airports, in Rome and Milano subways, in the public transport system in Bari, Rome, Milan, Padua and Siena and along the Italian motorways system. Technological platforms for interactive financial services on satellite, broadband and digital terrestrial television, corporate tv services for banks and businesses, and radio (Radio Classica/Milano Finanza) complete Class Editori digital media system, named Class Digital Media. With its Web portals www.milanofinanza.it, www.italiaoggi.it, www.classmeteo.it, with newspapers and applications for smartphones and tablets, and with the apps integrated in major smart tv brands (Philips, Samsung, LG) Class Editori provides business and financial to private investors, companies and professionals. Besides, Milano Finanza Intelligence Unit produces analysis and newsletters dedicated to online traders . Through MF Pro and on-line platforms MF Trading and MF Web, real time services (data plus news) are offered to the market. These services have been adopted by many leading Italian banks for their customers. Besides, the publishing house organizes and provides multimedia events, workshops and conferences through MF Conference and Creative Solutions companies, allowing advertisers to customize their communication projects at their best; through its subsidiary Assinform-Dal Cin Editore, a leader in its field in Italy, provides professional training services. An agreement with Xinhua News Agency, the news agency of the Chinese government, which involves cooperation in a series of editorial projects, It has been signed 'at the end of 2011. It is part of the expansion strategy in China which has first seen the birth of Excellence Italy (launched in October 2012 and then in the new version in February of this year). It is the first integrated multimedia system (magazine, website and app, in Chinese language) designed to communicate with tourists and Chinese consumers who are in Italy and who choose Made in Italy, and to meet the needs of Italian companies that focus on Chinese customers who come to visit Italy and consume in China. In 2014 an agreement was signed with Century Fortunet Limited for the development in Italy of the platform CCIGMall. It is a new platform for B2B e-commerce (ie, intended for Chinese retailers), built with the contribution of some of the largest groups and foreign institutions including Bank of China, China UnionPay, China Telecom and China Council for the promotion of international trade. CCIGMall will enable the Italian SMEs to have the most extensive distribution network throughout China without having to make investments out of their reach. Class Editori is the main supplier for the food & beverage sector, as well as the main agent for the fashion, luxury goods, accessories and design, and the exclusive agent for the production of content and the collection of advertising from Italy. Since 1998, Class Editori has been listed on Italian Stock Exchange.More