Editorial Salvat Manuel Salvat Dalmau joined the family business, Salvat Editores S.A. (the publishing company known as
Editorial Salvat), in the late 1940s, becoming manager, together with his brothers Santiago and Juan. The company was then leading the Spanish American market in
dictionaries and medical works. From that position, it developed an important change in the Spanish publishing sector by intensifying the sales of
encyclopedias through
instalments. The Salvat Group associated with the Boroli family, owner of
De Agostini, which had initiated the sale through fascicles in
Italy. For that purpose, they created a new distribution company, Marco Ibérica S.A. (MIDESA), of which more than 300 thousand complete collections were sold. Other outstanding achievements while he directed the publishing company were:
Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente's '''', In the late 1980s the Salvat Group was purchased by the French multinational
Hachette. Manuel Salvat had secured these
credits without having knowledge of doing so because his brother-in-law had signed them, using his name fraudulently. Even though he was not charged in the
Matesa Affair, Manuel Salvat took care of the
debt with the
Liquidation of Export Credit Commission (Spanish
Ministry of Finance,) which allowed him to carry on with his
publishing tasks. == References ==