Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> July 5, 1999
MAURIZIO COSTA is Managing Director of Mondadori. Born in Pavia in
1984, Maurizio Costa is a graduate in mechanical engineering from the
University of Genoa. After working for the state holding company IRI,
worked as a management consultant. In 1984, he joined the Montedison
Group. From 1985 to 1988, Mr. Costa was the Director of Strategy and
Development at Standa. In 1988, he moved to Fininvest, where he was
Director of Organisational Development. In 1989, Mr. Costa returned to
Standa as General Manager with responsibility for operative management.
In 1992, he joined Mondadori as Director of Editorial Shareholdings and
was responsible for the coordination and control of the Group's foreign
subsidiaries. He was also responsible for acquisitions and disposals and
strategic and new business development. In December 1994, Maurizio
Costa was appointed Managing Director of the Elemond group and became a
board member of all the companies of the Group, including Electa, Giulio
Einaudi Editore and Elemond Scuola and in 1996 also became responsible
for coordination and control of Speling & Kupfer. In February 1997, he
was nominated General Manager of the Mondadori Group and was
subsequently invited to join the Board of Directors and the Executive
Committee of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. On September 29, 1997, appointed
Managing Director of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Profile
information to tell us what the company and the business is today?
Mr. Costa: Mondadori is Italy's leading publisher of
