Collaboration amongst the different groups of professionals that work in Motorpress-Ibérica has become the key to the company’s good work and to the rigor and variety in the areas of its products.

Documentation Center
It classifies all the textual and graphic information that the editors bring from the presentations and press conferences to which they assist. In addition, it puts up to date all the technical data bases on cars, motorcycles and tables of contents as well as organizing the digital magazine collection on CD-Rom.(see staff) - return

Editing Staff
This is the "kitchen" where the content of all the magazines is elaborated. At least two great fields correspond to each director, the technical and article ones and, in some cases, the sports one too, each, with the corresponding specialized editors. In the cases of certain small editing staffs, the job is more divided and there is not so much specialization.return

Photographers
These professionals cover any event for the editing staff, where they obtain the images that will illustrate an article or a test. In addition to working outdoors, they also do studio work, where they take care of capturing the interior of cars, unassembled motorcycles and accessories. (see staff) - return

Layout
The layout department is in charge of putting together the magazines. They receive the texts, data, photographs and graphics and they arrange the pages with that material. Their creativity allows for all the published information to be well organized, clear and graphically appealing. return

Art Department
It is in charge of designing the new publications and restyling the already existing ones, on top of creating the magazine covers, 3D modeling, pictures and graphics necessary to illustrate articles, files, etc. (see staff) - return

Technical Center
There are two: one for car tests and the other for motorcycle tests. They evaluate the vehicles (torque, power, maximum speed, acceleration, breaking, noise, catching up, consumption…) outdoors and in our dynopower. The facts are then used by the car testers to evaluate the vehicle they are testing. return

Advertising
MPIB has the best commercial agents in each one of the publishing sectors where it has presence. Their job is to attract the attention of advertisers interested in our means of communication.(see staff) - return

Photomechanics
Layout sends the finished pages to this department and photomechanics returns color tests, which the editing staff must approve. Photomechanics then films the pages and sends them to photoassembling. return

Photoassembling
The photoliths filmed by photomechanics are mounted by sheets onto a plastic support and are then introduced into a special machine along with an emulsion-impregnated sheet. This is how a sort of copy of the magazine that the employee in charge of closing must approve, is obtained. The photoliths are then passed on to metal sheets and sent to printing house. return

Printing House
Upon arrival, the metal sheets are inserted into the cylinders of a rotary press and an offset copy is made. In the printing process, the metal sheets with the ink already on them are transferred one by one onto a rubber cylinder, which is then passed on to the paper supplied by 1,400 kilogram reels (around 20,000 meters of paper). return

Distribution
Its goal is to have the right number of magazines arrive at the right time to the right news-stands. It organizes the logistics so that all the magazines reach the distributors in good condition and in the right period of time. (see staff) - return

News-Stand Sales
Thanks to the distributing process, our publications reach a total of 19,628 news-stands in all of Spain, of which 8,633 are found in the capitals while the remaining 10,995 at different points of the provinces. return

Subscription Sales
The subscription department collects through telephone, mail, or internet all the requests from the readers. (see staff) - return

Sales by Telephone and Readers Service
The Readers Service department is in charge of sales of past issues and other products (videos, miniatures, etc.), in addition to collecting the advertisements that will later appear in the second hand market pages of all the magazines. (see staff) - return

Administration, Human Resources
José Luis Samaranch is the Motorpress-Ibérica Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and as such, all management fields depend on him, including the administrative one, which is directly managed by Jorge Santos. Our Administration section is divided into six areas: Purchases, Production, Distribution, Control, Accounting, and Personnel. (see staff, Administration) - (see staff, Human Resources and Legal Issuess), - return

Marketing
Its three basic tasks are: preparing the theoretic base and making the case for the commercial team to negotiate the advertising campaign; elaborating own studies directed towards the advertising brands that lead to later "meetings;" and preparing analysis as to where our product stands in the market and against the competition. (see staff) - return

Technical Support
In addition to being responsible for the upkeep of the machines, internal net, servers and communication means among the different company offices, this department reviews and updates the programs that are functioning and customizes software for the different fields in MPIB. (see staff) - return

Intranet
This information and communication tool allows for he connection, thanks to the possibilities offered by computer technology, of the different company offices. (see staff) - return

Public Relations
It coordinates all activities in which MPIB had promotional interests; organizes events in the name of our magazines or products and has MPIB offer its image for certain events such as saloons or races. (see staff) - return

Action Teams
Through the activities they organize, the motorcycle, bicycle and Club Ecuestre (horses) Action Teams, promote their respective magazines and get loyalty from the community of readers. return

Internet
The editing staffs of the Internet publications elaborate their information with the same means as the paper publications but the actual process is different: the very editors edit their information and then distribute it to all the net surfers, without the need for layout, photomechanics, photoassembling, the printing house and distribution. return

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