ECO - MEDIAS

Social capital averaging $US 5 million.Importance du groupe:

The group ECOMEDIAS is a public company with a social capital averaging $US 5 millions. It was created 1991. Today it owns five media outlets, one printing plant as well as a School of Journalism created in 2008. It still is one of the few press groups in the country. It has over the years, brought together an impressive selection of shareholders. Besides the couple Dilami/Borrut, who are the founders and editors of the two daily papers published by this company, the capital is divided amongst a company belonging to royal holding group SNI, Global Communication; a holding group belonging to one of the countries’ wealthiest families, the Kettani family, SOPAR; a leading market research firm in the country, SUNERGIA; and shares owned by the Mr. Belyazid, editor-in-chief of the company’s French-language daily.

In addition to this, a symbolic share - amounting to a mere 0.003% - is owned by four figures of the Moroccan economic establishment. Starting with Meriem Bensalah, who sits on the board of her family holding group HOLMARCOM, one of the country's most important businesses with a revenue averaging $US 400 Millions in 2012 - she is also president of the representative body of business owners [CGEM]. Another single share is owned by Driss Benhima, who successively held the positions of CEO of Office National de l'Electricité (ONE), Morocco's national power authority, Minister of Transport, Energy, Tourism, Mining and Merchant Navy, Governor of the region of Casablanca, Director of the Agency for the Promotion and the Economic and Social Development of the Northern Prefectures and Provinces of the Moroccan Kingdom (APDN) and finally CEO of Morocco's national airline company Royal Air Maroc. Two other shares are held by Amyn Alami and Mourad Cherif, the former being a banker, co-founder of Casablanca Finance Group, and the latter, a former minister that was in charge consecutively of four different ministries as well as former CEO of the ONA group (now royal holding SNI) and managed the mastodonte phosphates public company [OCP].

Société Marocaine de Participation [SOPAR], 5,46%

Khalid Belyazid, 3.9%

Meriem Bensalah, 0.003%

Driss Benhima, 0.003%

Amyn Alami, 0.003%

Mourad Cherif , 0.003%