MediaForEurope

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MFE - MediaForEurope N.V.

Formerly	Mediaset S.r.l. (1993-1994) Mediaset S.p.A. (1994-2021) Mediaset N.V. (2021)
Company type	Public (N.V.)
Traded as	BIT: MFEB BIT: MFEA BMAD: MFEA
ISIN	IT0001063210
Industry	Mass media
Predecessors	Mediaset Group Mediaset España Kirch Group (via ProSiebenSat.1 Media)
Founded	December 15, 1993; 30 years ago (1993-12-15) (as Gruppo Mediaset) November 25, 2021; 2 years ago (2021-11-25) (as MFE - MediaForEurope)
Founder	Silvio Berlusconi
Headquarters	Cologno Monzese , Italy
Key people	Fedele Confalonieri (Chairperson) Pier Silvio Berlusconi (CEO) Marco Giordani (CFO)
Revenue	4.23 billion € (2020)
Net income	374 million € (2021)
Owner	Fininvest (49.3%) Simon Fiduciaria (19.2%) Vivendi (4.6%) Treasury stock (3.1%) Public float (23.7%)
Number of employees	4990 (2021)
Subsidiaries	Mediaset S.p.A. Mediaset España ProSiebenSat.1 Media (26.58%)
Website	www.mfemediaforeurope.com

MediaForEurope,^[1] officially MFE - MediaForEurope N.V., formerly Mediaset Group (Italian: Gruppo Mediaset), is a Dutch-domiciled Italian-based^[2] media and communications company which is majority-owned by the Berlusconi family's Fininvest Group. MFE specialises primarily in free-to-air and pay-TV production and distribution on multiple platforms, as well as in film and multimedia production and distribution, and advertising sales. It has operations in Italy (through Mediaset S.p.A.) and Spain (through Mediaset España). It also is the largest single shareholder in ProSiebenSat.1 Media at 26.58%.^[3]

Its registered office is in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, while its management, operational, administrative and tax headquarters are located in Cologno Monzese, in the metropolitan city of Milan. Since 1994 the president of MFE is Fedele Confalonieri.^{[citation needed]}

The group has been listed on the Milan Stock Exchange since 1996 and the majority shareholder is Fininvest, a holding company founded in the 1970s by Silvio Berlusconi. It is the second largest private television group in Europe^[4] after the Luxembourg-based RTL Group and the first in Italy. In terms of turnover it is among the most important in the global media market.^[5] In 2010 it was ranked the best Italian media group and fifth largest in Europe in the Thomson Reuters Extel ranking. In 2013 it was ranked the 34th largest media group in the world.^[6]