Private company

Vocento

Logo: VOCENTO S.A.,, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

Spanish communications company

Vocento, S.A., also known as Grupo Vocento, is a Spanish mass media group. Its flagship daily newspaper is the conservative and monarchist ABC, also publishing El Correo. Vocento was created in 2001 upon the merger of Grupo Correo with Prensa Española, the publisher of ABC.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

2002Founded1
  • Industrymass media1
  • HeadquartersMadrid1
  • Websitewww.vocento.com
  • Legal formS.A.1
  • LEI959800201400056925253
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressGRAN VIA, 45- 3ª PLANTA, 48011 Bilbao, Spain3
  • Registered withRegistrars of Spain, 10000567827803

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Vocento, S.A., also known as Grupo Vocento, is a Spanish mass media group. Its flagship daily newspaper is the conservative and monarchist ABC, also publishing El Correo. Vocento was created in 2001 upon the merger of Grupo Correo with Prensa Española, the publisher of ABC. The group is also a player in the regional press sector, mainly owing to former properties of Correo (El Diario Montañés, La Verdad, Hoy, Ideal, Sur, La Rioja, El Norte de Castilla, El Comercio). Through Net TV, the group also owns a digital terrestrial television license in Spain, which is leased to Paramount Network and Disney Channel.2

Corporate structure

Vocento sits at the top of its group. 3 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Vocento Bilbao, Spain
    • FEDERICO DOMENECH SA Subsidiary · Valencia, Spain
    • PRODUCCIONS DE GASTRONOMIA S.L. (SOCIEDAD UNIPERSONAL) Subsidiary · Barcelona, Spain

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

The story

It has its origins in 1910 with the launch of El Pueblo Vasco, a newspaper founded by the Ybarra family, which merged with El Correo Español, another newspaper, in 1938. In the 1940s they obtained shares in the newspaper El Noticiero Bilbaíno and in 1948 they began its development with the acquisition of most of El Diario Vasco. The expansion outside the Basque Country (Spain) started in 1984 with the acquisition of shares in El Diario Montañés (a newspaper published in the nearby province of Santander).

In the 1980s, the holding company Corporación de Medios de Comunicación Social (Comecosa) was created, which acquired eight regional leading newspapers (Las Provincias, La Rioja, El Norte de Castilla, etc). In 1988, the newspapers La Verdad (Murcia), Hoy (Badajoz) and Ideal (Granada) were acquired. In 1990, the Diario Sur de Málaga was also incorporated.

From Wikipedia’s article on Grupo Vocento, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Products and brands

  • ABC
  • El Comercio
  • El Correo
  • El Diario Montañés
  • El Diario Vasco
  • El Norte de Castilla
  • Hoy
  • Ideal
  • La Rioja
  • La Verdad
  • Las Provincias
  • Mujerhoy
  • Sur
  • audiovisual work
  • printed press
  • radio broadcasting
  • television

Listed on Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded Prensa Española1

Timeline

  1. 2002Founded Founded1

Sources

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