Controlinveste
Controlinveste is a Portuguese holding company in the media. The company's headquarters is located on Avenida da Liberdade in Lisbon, Praça Marquês de Pombal.
Enterprise development
Controlinveste has emerged from the company Olivedesportos out in 1984, founded in 2005 by media mogul Joaquim Oliveira. It is now one of the largest media groups in Portugal, with a presence in the fields of press, radio, television and the Internet. The group also manages a diverse set of interests in companies in the advertising, media communication, content production and design, as well as telecommunications and sports.
Controlinveste holds important active investments in the field of television broadcasting rights for competitions in professional football in Portugal and abroad (such as the National team, Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal, League Cup, Champions League and UEFA Cup) as well as sponsorship and advertising rights in sport. Under the leadership of Joaquim Oliveira, published by the media companies such as newspapers Diário de Notícias, Jornal de Noticias, the 24horas and O Jogo and magazines such as Volta ao Mundo and Evasões.
In 1994 Controlinveste launched its first publication, which the sports daily O Jogo. 1998 starts with sports TV, in partnership with ZON Multimédia and RTP, a pay-TV channel devoted exclusively to the sport. With the growing importance of Internet and multimedia, the company has established in 2001 together with Portugal Telecom, the company sports Investe Multimédia. This company is responsible for the management of digital multimedia operations of the two leading football clubs in Portugal, FC Porto and Sporting Lisbon. Given the great success of this television, the sports channels TV2, TV3 Sport and Sport TV HD have been introduced in recent years.
The holding Controlinveste Media Group, in addition to newspapers and magazines, including a share of the news agency Lusa, and two printers ( Funchalense in Lisbon and Porto NavePrinter ), and two press - distribution companies.
In November 2013, the group Controlinveste was restructured and sold all his newspapers, including the Diário de Notícias, Jornal de Notícias, O Jogo, Açoriano Oriental and the radio station TSF. Investors are an Angolan group led by António Mosquito with a stake of 27.5 %, and Luis Montez (15% ) and the two banks Banco Comercial Português and Banco Espírito Santo (each 15 %). The founder and sole owner Joaquim Oliveira continues to hold 27.5 % stake in the media group. The sports pay TV channel Sport TV was excluded from the deal.
Group Controlinveste
The group belonged to October 2012, the following media:
- Açoriano Oriental ( oldest newspaper in Portugal in the Azores )
- Diário de Notícias ( daily newspaper )
- Dinheiro Vivo (Online Financial News )
- DN Madeira ( Madeira Newspaper )
- Evasões ( monthly magazine )
- Jornal de Notícias ( daily newspaper )
- Jornal do Fundão ( regional newspaper )
- O Jogo (sports newspaper )
- Ocasião - Classificados ( newspaper ad )
- Sports TV (pay-TV sports )
- TSF ( radio station )
- Volta ao Mundo ( travel magazine )