Issue date: 30 Apr, 2010
Correos devotes the Centenary Newspaper issue to El Correo of Bilbao, which celebrates its 100th Anniversary and its life time commitment with society. The stamp depicts some newspapers and the commemorative logo. The masthead in red is the representative colour of El Correo, and below appears the year 1910 when the first issue was printed and 2010 , the year it celebrates its hundredth anniversary.
The independent morning paper then called El Correo Vasco, first appeared on May 1st 1910. The industrial and economic rise of Bilbao in the early XX century encouraged the Ybarra and de la Revilla brothers to launch this newspaper. It was born as a progressive, dynamic and modern paper, with a plural and liberal conception of society. The first print runs were of 2.743 copies and in twenty years issued up to 8.000 copies. After its closure during the Civil War, it reappeared in the spring of 1938 and merged with El Correo Español. The consolidation and rise of the paper resulted in a print run of 80.000 copies in 1971. In the 80‘s important technological changes are made in the printing plants and the current Grupo Correo began to develop. Today, El Correo is not only the paper’s publishing company, but the head of the holding.
El Correo, as it is known by its readers, began in the 90’s a multimedia strategy and consolidated its penetration with and important diffusion now increased with elcorreo.com its Internet edition. With its renovated quality policy and its daily practise of pluralism, the leader of the Basque press, with over a million readers and the oldest newspaper in Euskadi, faces the future with the strength provided by its prestige and leadership.
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