Eco-Médias

Eco-Médias is a Moroccan media company partially owned by Mohammed VI the king of Morocco and a host of French businesspeople. It publishes newspapers that are widely distributed in the country and whose editorial line is pro-government.

Subsidiaries

• Assabah (Arabic-language daily, printed 86,907 copies/day in 2012)^[1]
• L'Économiste (French-language economic news daily, printed 24,053 copies/day in 2012)^[1]
• L'Economiste (French-language monthly business magazine)^[2]
• Atlantic radio, (French-language music and business news radio)^[2]
• Ecole Supérieur de Journalisme et de Communication, the leading journalism school in Morocco
• Eco-print, company that prints their publications

Key people

• Abdelmounaim Dilami, President and Director General^[3]
• Khalid Belyazid, Director General^[3]
• Marie-Thérèse Bourrut (French citizen and wife of Abdelmounaim Dilami. She writes under the pen-name Nadia Salah),^[4][5] Director of publication^[3]

Ownership

As of 2009:^[6]

• Marie-Thérèse BOURRUT 31.3%
• Abdelmounaïm DILAMI 29.2%
• Khalid BELYAZID 3.5%
• AIXOR (holding company owned by Jean Luc Martinet, the national delegate for the right-wing French party UMP) 10.3%
• SUNERGIA (Nader MAWLAWI, Lebanese businessman^[7]) 10.3%
• GLOBAL COMMUNICATION (subsidiary of SNI 10.3%
• SOPAR (Kettani family) 4.9%

After the death of Hassan II the couple Bourrut-Dilami increased their share in the company, controlling today the majority stake. Additionally the company saw the entrance of French national Martinet in the capital despite a ban on foreign ownership in the media in the Moroccan law. In 1996 the ownership was:^[8]

• Marie-Thérèse BOURRUT (aka Nadia Salah) 15%
• Abdelmounaïm DILAMI 9.5%
• Khalid BELYAZID 3.5%
• Nassredine EL AFRIT (Tunisian national)^[9] 7.5%
• Moulay Abdelhafid EL ALAMY (president of the Holding Saham and Minister of Industry since 2013) 9.5%
• Abderrahmane SAAÏDI (Minister of privatisation at the time) 9.1%
• Global Communication 9.5%
• Sopar 4.5%.
• Afriquia (subsidiary of Aziz Akhannouch's Akwa) 5%
• Kat (OUAZZANI family and Kamil Ouazzani, importer of Alcoholic beverages and liqueur)^[10] 9.5%
• Sunergia 9.5%
• Attijari Capital Risque (subsidiary of Banque Commerciale du Maroc which merged with Wafa to form Attijariwafa bank in 2003) 7.5%

References

External links

• Ecomedias.ma