www.diariocorreo.pe

In 2015, the website of Correo -mainly owned by the El Comercio Group - exceeded 5 million unique users per month and was ranked among the top 10 news and topical websites with the highest audience in Peru.

Key facts

Audience Share

Missing Data

Ownership Type

Private

Geographic Coverage

National coverage

Content Type

Free content

Data Publicly Available

ownership data is easily available from other sources, e. g. public registries etc.

2 ♥

Media Companies / Groups

Grupo El Comercio (hoy Vigenta Inversiones S.A.)

Ownership

Company

Grupo El Comercio (hoy Vigenta Inversiones S.A.)

63.6%

Group / Individual Owner

Olga Ana Rosa Banchero Rossi de Salazar

Sister of the Peruvian fishing businessman Luis Banchero Rossi. She was the late Enrique Agois Paulsen’s first wife, with whom she had four children: Luis Manuel (now chairman of the board, and owner of 11% of the shares, at Prensmart), Carlos Óscar (5%), María Gabriela Agois Banchero (5%).

20%

Luis Manuel Agois Banchero

Peruvian economist born in Lima in 1955. Son of the late Enrique Agois Paulsen and Olga Banchero Rossi. He is also the fishing tycoon Luis Banchero Rossi’s nephew. He has been shareholder and chairman of the board at Epensa (now Prensmart) since 2014. After the fall of Alberto Fujimori's regime, Congress asked the Public Prosecutor's Office to investigate Luis Agois for being part of Vladimiro Montesinos’ criminal organization, resorting to the deactivated Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional (National Intelligence Service) (SIN), and selling the editorial line of his media organizations in exchange for money in order to promote the third re-election of Fujimori. Faced with a government inquiry, Agois Banchero admitted to visiting the SIN, but that he refused to receive money from the former presidential candidate. "I only went to meet him [twice in 1999] to talk about national issues such as signing the peace agreement with Ecuador," said Luis Agois. The anti-corruption prosecutor investigated the case because of the declarations made by former representatives of Montesinos, but the case was archived in 2004. Since then, the process has been forgetten. In 2008, Agois presided over the NGO Sociedad de Empresas Periodísticas (Society of Media Companies) (SEP), which brought together “El Comercio,” “La República” and Epensa itself, among other printed media organizations. Three years later, he received an official award from the president of Congress, Luis Zumaeta, member of the then president Alan García’s party. In 2013, Agois Banchero was one of the shareholders who participated in the controversial process of selling his shares in Epensa to “El Comercio,” after the same operation failed with “La República.” In November of the same year, a group of eight journalists reported Agois, his mother, his brothers and “El Comercio” for violating freedom of expression and information laws due to the aforementioned commercial operation. The case is still with the Judicial Authorities. Agois is currently a member of the Board of Directors at the Consejo de la Prensa Peruana (Peruvian Press Council).

11%

Media Companies / Groups

Grupo El Comercio (hoy Vigenta Inversiones S.A.)

Facts

General Information

Founding Year

Missing Data

Founder

Prensmart (formerly Empresa Periodística Nacional S.A.- Epensa)

Affiliated Interests Founder

Company responsible for publishing the dailies Correo, Ojo, El Bocon, and also in charge of their digital content and digital and web versions which are related to showbiz Elshow.pe. It was created by the fishing magnate Luis Banchero Rossi in 1962 and after his death, it was administered by his family, wife and children. In 2013, the El Comercio group became the majority shareholder of the company.

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Luis Manuel Agois Banchero

Affiliated Interests Ceo

Faced with a government inquiry, Agois Banchero admitted to visiting the SIN, but that he refused to receive money from the former presidential candidate. "I only went to meet him [twice in 1999] to talk about national issues such as signing the peace agreement with Ecuador," said Luis Agois. The anti-corruption prosecutor investigated the case because of the declarations made by former representatives of Montesinos, but the case was archived in 2004.

Since then, the process has been forgetten. In 2008, Agois presided over the NGO Sociedad de Empresas Periodísticas (Society of Media Companies) (SEP), which brought together “El Comercio,” “La República” and Epensa itself, among other printed media organizations. Three years later, he received an official award from the president of Congress, Luis Zumaeta, member of the then president Alan García’s party. In 2013, Agois Banchero was one of the shareholders who participated in the controversial process of selling his shares in Epensa to “El Comercio,” after the same operation failed with “La República.

In November of the same year, a group of eight journalists reported Agois, his mother, his brothers and “El Comercio” for violating freedom of expression and information laws due to the aforementioned commercial operation. The case is still with the Judicial Authorities. Agois is currently a member of the Board of Directors at the Consejo de la Prensa Peruana (Peruvian Press Council).

Editor-In-Chief

Iván Slocovich Pardo

Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief

Peruvian journalist (Lima, 1943). He was editing director of the Correo Norte newspaper (covering the regions of Tumbes, Piura, Lambayeque, La Libertad and Chimbote). He assumed the post of national director of Correo in 2013. Most of his career as a journalist was developed at Prensmart.

Other Important People

César Pardo Figueroa Turner, José Antonio García Miró Miró Quesada, Luis Miró Quesada Valega

Affiliated Interests other important people

César Pardo Figueroa Turner

Industrial engineer. He has held the position of General Manager of El Comercio for 20 years and is also a director of the other subsidiaries in the “El Comercio” group

José Antonio García Miró Miró Quesada

Chairman of the Board of El Comercio since 2005.

Luis Miró Quesada Valega

Peruvian businessman. He was chairman of the board of directors at “El Comercio” between 1999 and 2005. Since 2007 he has served as president of the Board of Directors at América Televisión, the most-watched channel in Peru. At the same time he was member of the board at Graña & Montero, his cousin José Graña Miró Quesada’s company, until 2014.