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Companies: Grupo El Comercio appoints new board

The General Meeting of Shareholders of Empresa Editora El Comercio S.A. appointed the new members of the Board, which will be chaired by Gabriel Miró Quesada Bojanovich to replace Ignacio Prado García Miró, who held the position since 2017.

Gabriel Miró Quesada Bojanovich He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Empresa Editora El Comercio since March 2017. Bachelor of Business Administration with a specialization in Finance from the Universidad del Pacífico, and an MBA from PUCP – CENTRUM and Tulane University, he is a member of the boards of directors of the business of Television (Plural TV and Compañía Peruana de Radiodifusión SA) and presided over the companies in the Entertainment business. He is a member of UNE Asesores Financieros SAC, and in his previous experience there are important positions in the Bozovich Group and in Bank of Boston.

They make up the new Directory, Harold Gardener Ganoza, Bernardo Roca Rey Miró Quesada, Emilio Rodriguez Larraín Miró Quesada, Pablo Llona García Miró, Fátima de Romaña Miró Quesada, Luis Alonso Miró Quesada Villarán, Jaime de Orbegoso Rapuzzi and Manuel Antonio García Miró Bentín, and as independent directors Oliver Flögel and Rafael Llosa Barrios.

Achievements achieved

The management of Ignacio Prado García Miró It was marked by significant milestones in the Group’s transformation process. The implementation of a new government model aimed at giving greater dynamism and flexibility to its business units (Press, Television, Business Services and Digital), the diversification of the offer of the Business Services business, design and launch of the electronic commerce and the subsequent attraction of strategic partners (such as the Credit Group) and, in the Press business, the launch of digital subscriptions (paywall) for the newspapers El Comercio y Gestión.

Another notable achievement is the divestment in non-strategic assets (Entertainment business) and the sale of mature digital platforms (Urbania and Aptitus) which, together with the business results, allowed a reduction of S / 311 million (74% of the total) in the Group consolidated debt.

“I appreciate and congratulate the work we have done in the Board chaired by Ignacio in recent years, as it has involved great progress in the essential transformation process of the El Comercio Group”, Gabriel Miró Quesada Bojanovich indicated.

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