Grupo Leya Explained

Grupo Leya
Foundation:	2007
Type:	Publishing House
Key People:	Miguel Pais do Amaral (Chairman); Tiago Morais Sarmento (CEO); Isaías Gomes Teixeira (CEO);
Num Employees:	500
Homepage:	[www.leya.com]

Grupo Leya is a Portuguese multinational book publishing company established in January 2007 as a holding company incorporating some of the biggest Portuguese and Brazilian publishers and two of the largest African publishers.^[1] LeYa is the largest general-interest trade book publisher but it also publishes fiction, nonfiction and children's books, being also one of the most important Portuguese textbook and study book publisher.^[2]

Isaías Gomes Teixeira, a board member, has announced in 2008 that Leya's revenue target was circa 90M Euros and that they aimed to publish around 1,000 different books in 2008.^[3]

Some of the notable authors Grupo Leya represents are some of the most renowned writers in the Portuguese-speaking world, including Lobo Antunes, José Eduardo Agualusa amongst others.

Subsidiaries

• Texto Editores created in 1977, based in Amadora, Portugal.
• Edições Asa, founded in 1951 and acquired in 2007
• Editorial Caminho, founded in 1975, acquired in 2007 and best known for publishing José Saramago works.
• Dom Quixote, founded in 1965 and acquired from Planeta in 2007.
• Gailivro, founded in 1987 and acquired in 2007.
• Nova Gaia, founded in 1985 and acquired in 2007.
• Oficina do Livro and Casa das Letras, the former publishing company of Diário de Notícias, acquired in 2008.
• Academia do Livro
• Caderno
• Estrela Polar
• Livros d'Hoje
• Lua de Papel
• Ndjira, from Mozambique
• Novagaia
• Nzila, from Angola
• Quinta Essência
• Sebenta
• Teorema

Investors

It was announced in August 2011 that Trilantic Capital Partners $66m purchase of a minority stake in Grupo Leya in January.^[4]

External links

• Leya Group Home Page

Notes and References

1. http://publishnewsbrazil.com/2011/03/a-second-portuguese-publisher-docks-in-the-brazilian-publishing-harbor "A Second Portuguese Publisher Docks in the Brazilian Publishing Harbor"
2. http://www.leya.com/gca/index.php?id=68 "About Us"
3. https://archive.today/20120805012918/http://www.dn.pt/inicio/interior.aspx?content_id=1000501 "Leya, um novo império editorial de mil livros e 90 milhões de euros"
4. http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-30/trilantic-capital-will-invest-in-italy-portugal-ft-reports "Trilantic Capital Will Invest in Italy, Portugal, FT Reports"