RT Journal Article T1 Jesús de Polanco and the Prisa Group A1 Cabrera Calvo-Sotelo, Mercedes AB The main goal of this article is to present Jesús de Polanco’s (1929–2007) successive business initiatives that culminated in the expansion of the PRISA Group (Promotora de Informaciones S.A.), which was the leading Spanish multi-media group of its time. As well as the interest that his career triggers, Polanco’s biography allows us to address the relationship between the company and politics during the closing decades of the Franco dictatorship and the transition to democracy from a concrete perspective. Those were years marked by profound transformations, not only in the political life of the country but also in its economy, society and business structures that affected the entire communications media sector. PB Universitat de Barcelona SN 2385-7137 YR 2018 FD 2018 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12777 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12777 LA eng DS Docta Complutense RD 6 abr 2025