Private company

Cairo Communication

Logo: Cairo Communication, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

Italian media and publishing company

Cairo Communication S.p.A. is an Italian media and publishing company based in Milan. The shares of the company float in Borsa Italiana. Urbano Cairo, via UT Communications, UT Belgium Holding, owned 50.101% stake of the company.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1995Founded1

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Cairo Communication S.p.A. is an Italian media and publishing company based in Milan. The shares of the company float in Borsa Italiana. Urbano Cairo, via UT Communications, UT Belgium Holding, owned 50.101% stake of the company. In turn Cairo Communication owned 59.693% stake of fellow media company RCS MediaGroup, which was acquired in 2016.2

Corporate structure

Cairo Communication is part of a group headed by U.T. COMMUNICATIONS SPA. 15 entities, 3 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Cairo Communication reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

Founded by Urbano Cairo in 1995, in Milan.1

Urbano Cairo found a company Cairo Pubblicità in 1995, which wholesale advertisement space for RCS MediaGroup. In 1997 Cairo acquired a company which found in 1984, and renamed into Cairo Communication, as the holding company of his media empire. Cairo Communication acquired La7 in 2013 from Telecom Italia. In 2016 Cairo Communication acquired RCS MediaGroup by offering to buy the shares from the public market, which was more favor than the offer from the rival consortium.

From Wikipedia’s article on Cairo Communication, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Leadership

Who has led Cairo Communication, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Products and brands

Cairo Editore

Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori

Airone

Edizioni Anabasi s.r.l.

Read the full text

Dipiù, a weekly family magazine

RCS MediaGroup

La7 S.p.A.

Cairo Network s.r.l.

Cairo Pubblicità S.p.A.

Cairo Publishing S.r.l.

Il Trovatore

From Wikipedia’s article on Cairo Communication, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Subsidiaries and ownership

Also owns

Parent company (GLEIF)

Subsidiaries (GLEIF)

From Wikidata.1 Ownership links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); each one cites its LEI record.

Timeline

  1. Sep 4, 2017Parent Directly consolidated by U.T. COMMUNICATIONS SPA3
  2. 1995Founded Founded in Milan1

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