Grupo Planeta is the leading spanish communication group with wholly family-owned capital, a producer and distributor of editorial, news, educational and entertainment contents for the Spanish and French speaking market. Founded in 1949 in Barcelona, today it is the leading publishing group in Spain and Latin America, the second largest in France and it figures among the main leaders in publishing in Europe. It is also one of the great spanish multimedia groups due to its participation as a reference shareholder in media such as television, the press, radio and also Internet