Ediciones El País absorbs Diario Cinco Días and extinguishes the economic publication

Ediciones El País SL has absorbed Diario Cinco Días SA through a merger, as stated in the registered acts published in the Official Gazette of the Mercantile Registry (BORME) number 166, dated August 28, 2026. The operation, registered in the Mercantile Registry of Madrid, entails the extinction of the publishing company of the economic newspaper and its integration into the company that publishes the newspaper El País.

The announcement appears in the First Section of the gazette, within the registered acts corresponding to Madrid, and is recorded in the official document BORME-A-2026-166-28, on page 41710.

The registration operation

Registration 396795 reflects that Ediciones El País SL is carrying out a merger by absorption in which the absorbed company is Diario Cinco Días SA, with registration data on sheet M 476760, registration I/A 89, dated August 21, 2026.

For its part, registration 396796 corresponding to Diario Cinco Días SA records the cessations and resignations of its joint administrators, Diario El País SL and PRISA Media SA, as well as the revocation of proxies and the dissolution by merger and extinction of the company, with data on sheet M 196765, registration I/A 154, of the same date.

Companies involved

The operation integrates the main companies of the PRISA communication group:

• Ediciones El País SL, the absorbing company, publisher of the newspaper El País.
• Diario Cinco Días SA, the absorbed company, publisher of the economic newspaper Cinco Días.
• Diario El País SL and PRISA Media SA, joint administrators of the absorbed company.
• Representatives cited in the cessation: Vanessa Hernández Ferreiro and Pilar Gil Miguel.

Effects on the publication

The merger by absorption entails the dissolution and extinction of Diario Cinco Días SA, which ceases to exist as an independent company. The registration announcement does not detail the fate of the brand or the staff, but the extinction of the publishing company implies the integration of its activity into Ediciones El País SL.

The publication in the BORME provides legal publicity to the operation, so that third parties and creditors can exercise the rights that mercantile regulations recognize in merger processes.

Relevance for readers

The absorption of the publisher of Cinco Días by that of El País concentrates the publishing of two of the most relevant titles of the PRISA group—one generalist and one specialized in economic information—into a single company. The operation, registered on August 21 and published on August 28, 2026, affects both readers of the economic press and the employees of both companies, who are integrated under the structure of Ediciones El País SL.

Source: Official Gazette of the Mercantile Registry (BORME), no. 166, August 28, 2026, First Section, page 41710 (official reference: BORME-A-2026-166-28).