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Italy's Agnelli family approached by suitors for La Repubblica's publisher
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Posted on July 4, 2025
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on July 4, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
The Agnelli family is considering selling GEDI, publisher of La Repubblica, with interest from Vivendi and Antenna Group, though no deal is finalized.
TURIN (Reuters) -Italy's Agnelli family received several expressions of interest for GEDI, the publisher of Italian dailies La Repubblica and La Stampa, but no deal has been reached, a spokesperson for the family's holding company EXOR said on Thursday.
Italian newspaper Il Foglio reported that EXOR, which also is the single largest shareholder in carmaker Stellantis, is considering the sale of GEDI.
It added that French media group Vivendi and Greek media company Antenna Group were potential buyers.
"With reference to reports regarding GEDI Group, Exor says it has received several expressions of interest in these past years, but none of them have been followed up ", a spokesperson told reporters on the sideline of an event in Turin.
GEDI reported sales for 224 million euros ($263.63 million) last year, when it posted a 15 million euros loss. The business is worth 0.3% of EXOR's net asset value, or 118 million euros, according to Italian broker Intermonte.
($1 = 0.8497 euros)
(Reporting by Giulio Piovaccari, writing by Elvira Pollina, Editing by Louise Heavens)
GEDI is the publisher of Italian dailies La Repubblica and La Stampa.
EXOR, the single largest shareholder in carmaker Stellantis, is considering the sale of GEDI.
Potential buyers include the French media group Vivendi and the Greek media company Antenna Group.
GEDI reported sales of 224 million euros and a loss of 15 million euros last year.
GEDI is worth 0.3% of EXOR's net asset value, which amounts to 118 million euros.
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