Javier Godó has decided to resign his position as executive president of Grupo Godó, the business conglomerate, to give his position to his son Carlos. This is published this Sunday by the Catalan newspaper, which explains that the former president, who is 83 years old, will keep his position as editor of the header “while she sits with strength.”
Javier Godó, as his son, joined the Grupo Multimedia Grupo Godó de Communication of Family Property at age 23, after finishing his university studies and after his older brothers died tragically. He has consolidated the influential communication group in Catalonia and, personally, he has enforced his influence :.
His son, a member of the fifth generation of a family overturned in journalism since 1881, is a training lawyer and joined the group with the same age as his father. According to a published article signed by the new executive president, he has passed through all corners of the group after being in New York and landed at the former headquarters of Pelai Street in Barcelona when Mario Conde had made an shareholding package of the group, actions that the group ended up acquiring to maintain the family character.
Since then he has had to deal with the arrival of the Internet and a radical change of how the press reached its readers and a deep impact on the economic accounts of the newspapers.
Now he will have to keep the vigor of a group that his father grew. To the traditional headers of The avant -garde y The sports worldin 2000 he incorporated 8TV television, whose license ended up selling after continuous failures to make it economically viable, and the RAC1 radio station, leader of audiences in recent years in Catalonia. Three years ago he agreed to the sale of 20% of Radio Radio ,. And it has modified the group’s income structure with the creation of the GMK header, which groups creativity agencies, events, experiences and digital influence. It contributes 40% of group billing, about 170 million euros.
Carlos Godó says that the group can grow and is open “to new alliances and acquisitions,” and.
