The Cisneros Group of Companies is one of the largest privately held media, entertainment, telecommunications and consumer products organizations in the world. The Group owns or holds interests in companies ranging from broadcast television networks and pay television services to beverage businesses and supermarkets. Through its diverse businesses the Cisneros Group of Companies delivers some of the top brands and the highest quality services to the 550 million Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking consumers in the Americas and Europe. The Group has recently expanded its activities from Ibero-America to countries worldwide.
The Cisneros Group’s holdings include majority and minority interests that may be held directly or indirectly through partnerships, joint ventures or alliances. Some of the Group’s holdings include interests in: Venevisión, the leading broadcast television channel in Venezuela; Venevision International, a Spanish-language entertainment company with specialization in TV programming; Univision Communications Inc. (NYSE: UVN), the number one provider of Spanish-language content to the U.S. Hispanic audience; Movida, a mobile telephone service developed for U.S. Hispanic consumers; Claxson Interactive Group Inc. (XSON), an integrated Ibero-American media and entertainment company; DIRECTV Latin America, a direct-to-home satellite TV provider with operations across the region; Cervecería Regional, the second-largest brewery and beer distributor in Venezuela; and Pueblo, one of the leading supermarket chains in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands |