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antecedents
1875 Flammarion publishing house founded in Paris
1876 Corriere della Sera founded
1896 La Gazzetta dello Sport founded
1899 Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (FIAT) founded
by Giovanni Agnelli
1909 Angelo Rizzoli founds A. Rizzoli & Compagnia printing
and publishing house in Milan
1921 birth of Giovanni Agnelli's grandson Gianni (Giovanni,
d 2003)
1923 Giovanni Sr appointed as Senator
Rizzoli
1927 Rizzoli buys Novella, Il Secolo Illustrato, La
Donna and Commedia magazines
1933 establishes film production operation with La
signora di tutti
1935 Giovanni's son Edoardo Agnelli killed in plane crash
1945 death of Giovanni Agnelli
1949 Rizzoli launches Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli (BUR)
1951 Rizzoli founds Istituto Grafico Rizzoli for teaching
graphic arts
1960 produces Fellini's La dolce vita
1974 Gianni Agnelli becomes president of Confindustria
employers' organisation
Corriere acquisition
1974 Rizzoli buys Corriere della Sera
1976 Libyan government takes 10% stake in FIAT
1984 Rizzoli bought by Generale Mobiliare Interessenze
Azionarie (Gemina) investment group
1987 Rizzoli buys Sansoni publishing house
1990 buys Fabbri Bompiani Sonzogno Etas publishing group
1995 forms joint venture with Burda
Hdp spin-off
1997 Gemina spins off Rizzoli as centrepiece of Holding
di Partecipazioni Industriali (Hdp) in which Agnelli interests
have controlling stake
1998 HdP buys Valentino for US$300m
2000 buys Flammarion
2000 buys Marsilio
2000 buys publishing and direct marketing activities of
Sfera Editore
2001 launches City free metro in Milan, Bari,
Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples
2001 RCS forms partnership with JCDecaux,
integrating JCDecaux Comunicazione Esterna Italia S.p.A.
and IGP S.p.A
2001 FIAT buys Montedison agro-energy conglomerate for
US$4.3bn
2002 Hdp sells Valentino for €36.5m
2002 FIAT sells stake in General Motors for US$1.6bn
2003 death of Gianni Agnelli
2003 FIAT Avio (aerospace arm) sold to Carlyle Group for
US$1.7bn
2003 insurer Toro Assicurazioni sold to De
Agostini
RCS MediaGroup established
2003 RCS MediaGroup established through restructuring
process of the Rizzoli - Corriere della Sera Group and
parent HdP
2004 RCS sells JA Apparel, Riverside Manufacturing and
Nashawena Mills (Joseph Abboud Group) to JA Holding for
US$73m
2004 RCS foreshadows purchase of 40% interest in RCS Periodici
held by German publisher (which will buy back 20% stake
in Burda Verlag Osteuropa and
50% stake in Burda Rizzoli International joint venture)
2004 announces plan to absorb all business entities that
are entirely controlled (AGR, CNR, RCS Radio e TV, Immobiliare
Solferino 28, HdP Sviluppo Immobiliare and RCS Internal
Auditing)
2004 RCS sells 2.5% stake in Pirelli
2005 Stefano Ricucci's Magiste property development group
builds up 21% stake in RCS, largely through loan from
Banca Popolare
2006 Magiste collapses, Ricucci imprisoned, Banco Popolare
sells stake
2006 Benetton family's Edizione Holding buys 5% stake
in RCS
2006 FIAT sells Telexis Brasil and Telexis Polska to BT
Group
2006 Agnelli family's Ifil pays US$563m for Mitsubishi's
67.5% stake in Cushman & Wakefield
2007 RCS pays €1.1bn for Recoletos
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