title: Impresa
text: # Impresa
  
  Impresa (full name: IMPRESA Sociedade Gestora de Participações Sociais SA) (Euronext Lisbon: IPR ) is a Portuguese media conglomerate, headquartered in Paço de Arcos, in Oeiras municipality. It is the owner of SIC TV channel, and Expresso newspaper, among other leading media, like several magazine publications. A third online business segment was launched under the name Impresa Digital.
  
  The company, which was founded by Francisco Pinto Balsemão, is listed on the Euronext Lisbon stock exchange.
  
  ## History
  
  The origins of Impresa goes back to 1972. In 1991 the company established a holding company, the Balsemão group. Next year it started the first private television channel, SIC, in Portugal.
  
  In 2011 the company established Media Rumo SA in Angola.
  
  ## Television
  
  * SIC
  * SIC Notícias
  * SIC Mulher
  * SIC Radical
  * SIC K
  * SIC Caras
  * SIC Internacional
  * SPT
  
  ## Publications (Impresa Publishing)
  
  In 2018 Portuguese company Trust in News (TIN) acquired the magazines owned by Impresa, except Expresso and Blitz.
  
  * Activa
  * Arquitectura & Construção
  * Caras
  * Caras Decoração
  * Casa Cláudia
  * Courrier Internacional
  * Exame
  * Exame Informática
  * FHM (ceased publication on 22 February 2010)
  * Jornal de Letras
  * Mística
  * Telenovelas
  * Visão
  
  ## Digital (Impresa Digital)
  
  * Escape
  * Info Portugal
  * Aeiou
  * Olhares
  * Mygames (now a magazine)
  