- CEO
- Ignacio Gimenez Zapiola
- Full Time Employees
- 1,748
- Sector
- Consumer services
- Industry
- Publishing: newspapers
- Address
- Lima Peru
- IPO Date
- Mar 7, 1997
- Business
- Empresa Editora El Comercio SA is a Peru-based media and communications conglomerate engaged in print publishing, television broadcasting, digital media production, and commercial graphic printing. Founded in 1839 and headquartered in Lima, Peru, the company serves individual consumers, subscribers, commercial advertisers, and corporate clients primarily throughout Peru and across Latin American and Spanish-speaking international digital markets. The company operates through several core business segments, offering products and services that include the publishing and distribution of print and digital news publications, including its flagship daily El Comercio, financial newspaper Gestión, high-circulation general-interest daily Trome, news publication Perú21, sports daily Depor, and tabloid Ojo; digital news websites, mobile applications, and digital paywall subscription services; free-to-air television broadcasting and programming production through América Televisión (Compañía Peruana de Radiodifusión SA); continuous television news broadcasting via pay-TV channel Canal N; over-the-top streaming and video-on-demand services via América tvGO; high-volume commercial offset printing, heatset and coldset web printing, and prepress services for books, retail circulars, magazines, and third-party publications; and digital marketing solutions, programmatic advertising, brand content development, and logistics distribution. In recent developments, Empresa Editora El Comercio SA has accelerated its digital transformation initiatives by expanding its digital subscriber base across its core publishing mastheads, integrating data-driven and programmatic advertising solutions, and broadening the content library and distribution footprint of its América tvGO streaming platform through international co-production partnerships. Additionally, the company has undertaken operational restructuring and cost-containment measures, modernizing its editorial workflows into cross-platform multimedia newsrooms and optimizing its commercial printing assets to focus capital and resources on high-growth audiovisual and digital operations.