GRUPO GLOBO

About GRUPO GLOBO

Grupo Globo, formerly known as Organizações Globo, is the largest mass media group in Latin America. It was founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1925 by Irineu Marinho. The group also previously owned companies in the food industry, and in the real estate and financial markets. The first enterprise of the company was the newspaper A Noite. With the success of the newspaper, published in the late afternoon, Marinho decided to launch the morning daily O Globo in 1925.