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| Company type | Publishing House |
|---|---|
| Industry | Books, Publishing |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Lisbon, Portugal |
Area served | Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique |
Key people | Miguel Pais do Amaral (Chairman); Tiago Morais Sarmento (CEO); Isaías Gomes Teixeira (CEO); |
| Products | Books |
Number of employees | 500 |
| Website | [www.leya.com] |
Grupo Leya is a Portuguese multinational book publishing company established in January 2007 as a holding company incorporating some of the biggest Portuguese and Brazilian publishers and two of the largest African publishers. [1] LeYa is the largest general-interest trade book publisher but it also publishes fiction, nonfiction and children's books, being also one of the most important Portuguese textbook and study book publisher. [2]
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Isaías Gomes Teixeira, a board member, has announced in 2008 that Leya's revenue target was c. 90M Euros and that they aimed to publish around 1,000 different books in 2008. [3]
Some of the notable authors Grupo Leya represents are some of the most renowned writers in the Portuguese-speaking world, including Lobo Antunes, José Eduardo Agualusa amongst others.
